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[Rant] Walmart phamacy

I don't trust Ghetto Mart for even normal shopping. Hell would have to freeze over before I would even consider using their pharmacy!

reply to signmeuptoo
If you can, use Costco. Their dispensing fee (and drugs), are way less money, and you'll be treated with respect.
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reply to signmeuptoo
I feel your pain. If you have a Ralphs or Kroger Pharmacy, use them. They have a list of $4 generic drugs(30 day) or $10 generic(90 day), with or without insurance. Plus, their prices are often cheaper than our insurance copay, and I can do grocery shopping while waiting. Their customer service is awesome. A couple times I had no refills remaining on a sunday with no pills left, and the pharmacist gave me 4 pills for 4 days until I got my refill, for free. Use them, they won't disappoint.
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reply to signmeuptoo
What about something like liberty medical where they auto ship your meds to you?

reply to signmeuptoo
Are you aware that there is such a DIRE SHORTAGE of many drugs (common drugs, many are generic that have been around for years and it is shocking to learn that hospitals and pharmacies cannot get these drugs reliably now and in many cases cannot get them at all except by import from other nations) in the USA? The shortage is so severe and terrifying as to potential consequences that the FDA has recently declared a MEDICAL EMERGENCY STATING THAT MANY PATIENTS WILL have treatment delayed by, or die, BECAUSE OF DRUG SHORTAGES. The FDA is so PANICKED by this horrible situation that they have announced that they will completely REVERSE their many year edict that it is dangerous, and illegal, for patients to order medicine outside the USA and the FDA ITSELF IS DESPERATELY trying to order the medicines that are in extreme shortage from FOREIGN NATIONS. This severe shortage of many drugs is only happening in the USA. The drugs are available in plentiful amounts (and reasonable prices) all over the world except here. 99.5% of all USA hospitals reported severe shortages of common drugs last year (as did almost all pharmacies) and stated this led to patient complications and sometimes death.

Welcome to USA pharmaceutical cartel HELL. This is why Wal-Mart runs out of some of your medications. This won't change by changing pharmacies. As for Wal-Mart treating you badly that is awful and I hope Walgreen's will be a big improvement for you in that regard. Wal-Mart is my pharmacy by choice but I have not had your type experiences (except in regard to severe drug shortages). Plus, I don't take many medications so it is much easier for me managing them.

I switched a couple of years ago (during a severe drug shortage only in the USA) for my main maintenance drug (that I will die without) to »www.universaldrugstore.com/. I am EXTREMELY HAPPY with the high degree of professionalism from this Canadian drugstore. The prices are great and, even way off in Hawaii, I get the drugs within ONE WEEK (on refills) and delivery is a modest amount with full guarantee. You do have to have your prescription faxed to them. They have an 800 number customer service located in the USA (Georgia) if you have questions, or their website has a bad day, etc) and I have had very courteous CSR's there who have bent over backwards to help me.
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When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

reply to signmeuptoo
Walgreens is falling apart. My wife worked in the pharmacy there for fifteen years but she left last year because she just couldn't take the company crap any more. She still keeps up with people she worked with and they tell her it just keeps getting worse. Management at Walgreens is awful at pretty much everything. They lost their cash cow at the end of 2011 when they screwed up the contract with Express Scripts and in 2012 they are laying off a ton of pharmacy staff. Those still left are mostly looking to find a new job at a different pharmacy chain somewhere. Walgreens treats their employees awful and their customers worse.

My wife took a job at a grocery store pharmacy and was much happier, until the start of this year when all the Walgreens people decended upon her little pharmacy. Now she's overwhelmed with the sheer amount of traffic they're getting. She actually collapsed on the job two weeks ago and I had to run her to the hospital. So many people taking so many pills, and so many drug addicts trying to scam their next bottle of pain meds, pharmacies are in a world of hurt these days.
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty - Ronald Reagan

reply to signmeuptoo
Walgreens is no better. They will eventually screw up your medicines as well. I gave up on Walgreens after they had me going back and forth between two locations because neither could figure out where my medicine was being sent to. I finally had enough and called my doctor to have her send it to CVS. After that, all my prescriptions were sent there.

reply to signmeuptoo
you can't use a mail order pharmacy??

reply to signmeuptoo
My wife and I had similar, almost identical, issues with Walmart pharmacy and recently switched elsewhere. A friend of my wife is a pharmacist at Walgreens, she tells us that whenever they have an ex-walmart pharmacy tech or pharmacist start working for Walgreens, they have to completely retrain them on everything from the basics to advanced stuff. From what she has heard from the ex-employees, there is little to no training at Walmart, they are thrown in and taught as they go from others who also have had no formal training.

reply to mareastrum
In our city WalGreen's is much better - till they lost Express Scripts. We switched to Kroger and still have issues (but I do get cheaper gas!)... CVS was\is terrible in our neck of the woods.
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reply to signmeuptoo

I take many meds daily, and with the exception of restricted drugs (Schedule/class 1) I purchase all the others from a distributor in India. There is only a $20 shipping and handling fee and the package is shipped Express Mail. I usually have mine delivered in about 7 - 10 days after I order them.

reply to signmeuptoo
I use my HMO's pharmacy. Generics less than the co-pay are at cost; $30/formulary, $40/non. $150 annual deductible. I can have them mailed to me or pick up at one of the center pharmacies. No hassles.

If they won't let you check what you got before you leave, that is absolutely unacceptable (not to mention most likely illegal). It is your right and your place to verify you received the correct medications while you are there, and to stand up and tell them to f*-off if they prevent you from doing so. Contact the state agency that licenses pharmacies and your local TV/print news and tell them what's happening. That will get better results than just venting on the Internet.
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reply to Fronkman
OP must have a supermarket with a pharmacy nearby. Most of them have deep-discount generics, and should be able to fill specialty scripts with a few days' lead time. OP should also ask their doctor(s) for recommendations about reputable mail-order pharms. And, there are surely support and advocacy groups for the OP's condition(s) for advice and recommendations.
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reply to signmeuptoo
If the Connecticut Walgreens is like the Walgreens in the West you will feel like that in moving from Walmart to Walgreens that you have moved from the fluctuating but all ways cold to warm, secure comfort.

Good luck.