The ridiculous evolution of Fill Masters.

[WVUPharm2007]

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I thought the next-to-newest model was over the top. With the nicer screen and little tray to put the FlavoRx bottles in. But has anyone else gotten the newest model? Have you seen this monstrosity? They installed it at the place I was today.

It is seriously huge. Some of the older stores are going to have to rearrange some things to get it to fit right. It's got a touchscreen, ambient lighting, screensavers, carved out FlavoRx bottle holders...it's like a freaking pharmaceutical Power Wheels. Remember when the fillmaster was just a small little thing you typed a number into and it dispensed what it said it was going to? This thing is a joke. It's a water dispenser that's trying to look like one of those Coke Freestyle machines. The LED lights that light up that flavor bays are BLINDING. Literally, if you look at it for more than a second, you have 12 blue LED lights burned into your eyesight for the next 10 minutes. It's the most ill-conceived thing I've seen at CVS. And you can't just put tape over it. It's designed so that an LED that is brighter than the sun diffuses over the blue paneling making a fancy ambiance. Is that what I really need out of my water dispenser? Ambiance? The pharmacy is set up so that the techs are facing this thing as the do QP. By the end of the shift, one of the techs was saying that the blue light was giving her a migraine. I don't doubt it. I'm not exaggerating...this thing is like a freaking laser pointer if you are unfortunate to glance at it at just the right angle.

CVS...seriously...just give me the thing with the old school display that I simply typed the numbers into. Good lord.

 

[catalyzt]

They're also charging $2,000 plus a required additional charge of $300/year not including the cost of the flavoring itself. smh..

 

[trailerpark]

Walmart uses a manual one which works perfectly fine.


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[Dr Wario]

We have one of those too, just hope you don't have the damn bug where about once a day you have to turn it off, reseat the sd card, and reset it when it will no longer scan bar codes.

 

[RxPreceptor]

More technology prone to breaking & completely unnecessary...good investment. Riiight

 

[Rouelle]

I used one of those floating last night. The tech was trying to show me how to use it and I felt like an old man who technology had passed by.

 

[MountainPharmD]

Yeah, the reconstitube works just fine for like $50.

 

[txpharmguy]

Is this a fully automated machine where it not only adds the water but flavoring agents as well?

 

[WVUPharm2007]

Is this a fully automated machine where it not only adds the water but flavoring agents as well?

Pfft. No. It's literally a thing that dispenses water and holds flavor bottles....with a touchscreen...and unnecessary LED lights that would blind a welder.

 

[txpharmguy]

Oh. I was thinking it would be like this model

 

[mentos]

Mo money mo problems. I hate how every new car has all the bells and whistles. Just more crap to replace when it breaks.

 

[farmadiazepine]

This is so unnecessary. I use a graduated cylinder and a bottle of water to reconstitute antibiotics. Just eyeball the amount of water and call it a day. I don't need a machine to do it.

Here we have a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

The people at the store called fillmaster to complain about how ungodly bright this thing was. They were told to "just put a towel over it."

lmfao...cvs and fillmaster are truly meant for each other.

 

[sosoo]

this thing is nice when it works. the "repeat" function is an A+!!! however, with all the "calibration" errors, its a lot easier to get water from the fountain next to the restroom! ^^

 

[BidingMyTime]

What in the world? Seriously, a vending machine for flavor stuff in the pharmacy? How much flavoring does your store do each day to justify having a vending machine for it?

 

[Corpseman]

I love that my pharmacy just flat out refuses to flavor.