Walgreens and CVS looted
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You guys were still open this late? Walgreens had a pretty much universal early shut down today because of the riots. I know the one on 18th and South was getting hit earlier.
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Imma be pissed if I can't work for a month. Looks like I'll be putting on some masks, goggles and a hat and join them if so
your only source of income is going to be affected!
Sacramento midtown: PUCCI's pharmacy got broken in, and the pharmacy I part-time at was broken in too. They are targeting pharmacies. Broadway walgreens is closed, so as Natomas walgreens. I guess Walgreens next to the medi center should be closed too since that's the worst area of Sacramento
Can CVS/Wags lay off everyone at the looted stores then hire new grads when they reopen at $45-50/hr? I can see these companies doing that.
Seems like all of the "temporarily closed" Walgreens identified by Google maps search were affected. Includes Mack Rd (ghetto), Arden/Howe (proximity to ghetto) along with midtown Broadway and Natomas Wags (proximity to DHA) as you mentioned. National Guard rolled in yesterday and there's a curfew now.
Why is this idiotic? I am not bashing them, I am looking at it from a business standpoint. Many companies have laid off employees or even gone out of business due to Covid-19. Now stores are being looted and destroyed. They will not reopen overnight. Do you think Macy's and Cheesecake Factory will recover from this? Retail pharmacies are not immune to layoffs. $45-50/hr is the market rate for new hire pharmacists so this is a realistic scenario.
I would like to hear what you think will happen. Do you think CVS/Walgreens will continue to pay pharmacists who work in looted/destroyed stores?
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In that case, what I said was idiotic to think that new pharmacists would get hired as replacements. Your scenario of not hiring any replacements at all is even more realistic.
what you said is idiotic because they will not fire the old staff just to hire new ones, and yes they will pay if you are working (what kind of question is that?)
if you meant if they will still pay the employees when the stores are closed, I doubt it because too many stores are being affected nationally... if it was just a few then yes they may pay or they may relocate you to work at different stores
I am talking about the stores that got looted/destroyed. They will not reopen immediately, it may take months or over a year. Or if they get burned down, they may not reopen at all. You think they will keep their employees that long? I never said they would fire employees, I said laid off - there is a difference. If a store is shut down or destroyed for several months, how long can other stores absorb their hours? The schedule is already cut down to the bone. They already planned to cut hours across the nation this month before the destruction and closures occured.
no it will not take that long to reopen unless the protests last that long, but if it actually last that long then we have whole other problems to deal with
what you initially said was they will just reopen with new grads, if you want to add in any other stipulations then of course it may change what may happen
How do you know how long it will take to reopen? If a store is burned down, how long will that take to reopen?
I can ask you the same question lol
one of the stores in my district was broken in to and they are talking about possibly reopening soon... where did you get your information that it will take over a year if the protests doesn't last that long?
and like I said if you want to add in more details and stipulations then of course things will change but it doesn't change the fact your original comment was stupid
Uh because they have drugs....much better than a towel set from Target. My friend in San Fran had a sister store at Wags get looted. They trashed the whole place and forced the control safe open and stole all the fun meds out of the store. I saw pics....place is totally wrecked.
LoL we are on a pharmacy forum, do we really have to explain? There is hundreds of thousands of dollars of inventory back there. I hear the yellow pills have a street value of $5-10/pill. Or they just wanna use the drugs themselves.
Remember the one in Baltimore that was destroyed? That one took 11 months.
West Baltimore CVS, destroyed in riot, reopens
The looting and torching of the Penn-North CVS/Pharmacy last April inconvenienced some residents of the impoverished West Baltimore neighborhood much more than Christine Bailey. Elderly patients, for example, who were deprived of their medications.
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It’s an interesting discussion to have nevertheless. If it’s about CII, then perhaps destroying the stock would help?
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It's a real shame if a pharmacy burns down and people can't get their diabetes and the like meds. I'm just thinking that getting rid of meds that are sought after by looters may perhaps help the situation. Perhaps not
Where would they put them? It's not like you can legally just take them out of the store to hide somewhere.
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Someone here got called while on duty to shut the gate for his 24hr store. You think he had time to send back drugs before closing the gate? UPS is not going to drive through a riot to make a pickup.
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Obviously this has to be done in advance. Target by me boarded up even though we have had no looting in our area. A doc I know owns a gun store and he has to remove his stock every time there is a hurricane coming. It would make financial sense for chains to prevent looting vs rebuild the stores.
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You can't predict when looting will occur. But these menaces are looting cheesecake and toilet paper so pharmacies will be hit regardless. My local news showed a local eye exam center that was destroyed. No business is safe.
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Maybe for the damage but not the lost revenue? Not sure. How many business reopened after the LA riots in 92?
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In IL, CII's must be double locked, so you can't just "hide" them somewhere else in the pharmacy or store. I'm sure many states have similar laws.
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Chicago mayor wants pharmacy to reopen
The looters will just tear apart the whole pharmacy looking for the fun drugs if they find the safe empty.
She did nothing to protect these stores from getting looted in the first place.Chicago mayor wants pharmacy to reopen
Two stores not too far from me were looted and reopened within a couple days. CII safe was broken into at one location and they took pretty much everything from inside. Couldn't break into the other one though
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