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I'm curious how many hours other chains give their pharmacy. At my Wag store we average around 2700 scripts a week and get about 200 hours depending on the month. We aren't a 24 hour store.
So that is 1 hour per 13.5 scripts. In a 24h store, I am getting similar allocation. But I know stores with your volume, working on 250 tech hours. What is the pharmacist overlap though? There is no overlap in 24hr store, there is in the other location.
You are getting screwed unless you have significant overlap, your techs have 3 arms, or Wags system is very efficient.
I'm curious how many hours other chains give their pharmacy. At my Wag store we average around 2700 scripts a week and get about 200 hours depending on the month. We aren't a 24 hour store.
Rite Aid, 1550/week with 165 tech hours. I believe the formula factors in much more than just script count though such as sales, % of scripts being controls etc. I routinely have customers with whole carts filled with groceries/FE merchandise which can tie a tech up for 3-4+ minutes on a single transaction and a high volume of controls...
Some of the other chains also have systems that can share data entry although I'm not sure how significant that reduces workload
That sounds terrible. Do you have central fill or a call center handling calls or anything like that? Does that include cashiers?I'm curious how many hours other chains give their pharmacy. At my Wag store we average around 2700 scripts a week and get about 200 hours depending on the month. We aren't a 24 hour store.
It is ridiculous to compare hours between chains and reach a conclusion based on a number alone. A comparison of hours is fine, but to say "we are getting screwed"... you are leaving out so many variables that go into the equation. I
For example, I used to work at CVS. In the drive-thru you could literally open a window and hand materials (prescriptions, forms of payment, signatures) directly to someone. The Walmart I currently work at has a drive-thru that was just serviced and they let me know that it was in working order "running at 15-17 seconds". That is how long it takes just to send a carrier out to reach someone in the drive-thru. Multiply that by a minimum of 2-3 times back and forth per transaction and by the number of cars per day and you are looking at additional hours there alone.
Think about the number of people that come into a CVS vs a Walmart throughout the course of the day. Will all of them spend time interrupting the pharmacy staff with some asinine question or phone call? No... but I can tell you that the number of those cases are exponentially higher now than they were with my previous employer.
So although it may seem like you are getting the short end, it's not ideal anywhere for more reasons than can be listed.
(BTW I do about 2500/wk and get about 1hr/10rxs)
I disagree mainly because I feel wags should be getting more hours then walmart not less and it sounds like you think its the other way around. Also, wag rad and cvs should be comparable.
Walgreens has been doing alot of cutting with tech hours for the past 6-8 years. I don't know any other pharmacy chain that runs so thinly than wags. I'm with wags right now as well and although we don't do alot of scripts it still gets really stressful and hectic---we do 800/week on 62 tech hours...close ratio.
I floated to one Wags store that probably does about 700 a week on 36 tech hours. Wags is so cheap on their help.
I floated to one Wags store that probably does about 700 a week on 36 tech hours. Wags is so cheap on their help.
That's crazy...1 hour per 19 scripts...that's a disaster waiting to happen.
That's crazy...1 hour per 19 scripts...that's a disaster waiting to happen.
For 700 a week? That's only around 100 rx/day, so that's not terrible assuming the tech is good. I know at many Wags in my area the Rph is alone on the weekends, and that's at stores with a higher volume than 700/week.I floated to one Wags store that probably does about 700 a week on 36 tech hours. Wags is so cheap on their help.
Wow when I was in retail my store did roughly the same and we were using 350 hours and IMHO that was about 50 hours too short- doing 4500 scripts with 300 hours to me is unethical and a mistake waiting to happen.We only get 250-300 hours a week for ~4500 scripts at my wags. We are a 24 hour store with drive through. Not very many tech hours... I think the Yuyama replaced a lot. We also have 2 pharmacists during the weekdays, and 3 pharmacists for 2 hour period.
I'm a part-time tech and have to work 35 hours a week for min wage lol. I'm not sure how they plan on hiring "career oriented" individuals under these work conditions for garbage pay.
Wow when I was in retail my store did roughly the same and we were using 350 hours and IMHO that was about 50 hours too short- doing 4500 scripts with 300 hours to me is unethical and a mistake waiting to happen.
that may be a legal problem. if u work more than 30 hrs a week you're entitled to full time benefits. u should seek legal counseling against CVS.