Walgreens and CVS looted

[Deja]

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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. Many elderly patien…

www.baltimoresun.com

this doesn't mean anything, so the most you can find is 11 months lol did the pharmacists who was working at that store get fired/let go?

not sure why you insist on arguing that retails will just replace everyone, that's not going to happen

 

[PharFromNormal]

Pharmacies may have insurance for loss but you’d have to check policy on events that may be excluded.

Additionally some plans have extremely high deductibles which would be at a store level. I.e. may be responsible for first 450k before coverage kicks in.

 

[Sine Cura]

Chicago mayor wants pharmacy to reopen

With residents desperate for prescriptions, Lightfoot, Duckworth push for looted pharmacies to reopen

“My idea was... to touch base with both Walgreens and CVS and make sure that they would really open those stores that are, that have been affected, as soon as possible,” Sen. Duckworth told the Chicago Sun-Times.

chicago.suntimes.com

Always love these sob story news articles that start with an anecdote from someone who made poor life choices:

...34 weeks into a high-risk pregnancy and needs both a hormone therapy and insulin to treat gestational diabetes, but her local Walgreens is temporarily closed after damage from recent riots.


“Every day we call in to Walgreens and just get a message that this store is closed,” said the 37-year-old mother of two.

 

[BidingMyTime]

At least on paper, the US is not a fascist or a communist state. It is completely up to the private company, if they want to reopen. Chicago is a mess, and Lightfoot changes her opinion on things from one day to the next (she is very 1984ish, in that her opinion today is *always* the opinion she has held, even if she had actually said the opposite the day before.) I feel for those communities, they need a pharmacy within withing walking distance (nobody wants to actually drive in Chicago....although as bad as it is, I've heard it is like rural driving compared to NYC!,) but unless the city is willing to pay for that pharmacy, they can't demand a pharmacy magically open up.

 

[footfairy]

At least on paper, the US is not a fascist or a communist state. It is completely up to the private company, if they want to reopen. Chicago is a mess, and Lightfoot changes her opinion on things from one day to the next (she is very 1984ish, in that her opinion today is *always* the opinion she has held, even if she had actually said the opposite the day before.) I feel for those communities, they need a pharmacy within withing walking distance (nobody wants to actually drive in Chicago....although as bad as it is, I've heard it is like rural driving compared to NYC!,) but unless the city is willing to pay for that pharmacy, they can't demand a pharmacy magically open up.

It is amazing how badly the chains have dropped the ball on continuity of care though. You can't really transfers scripts out of the closed stores because their servers are offline. At least with Walgreens the information is availble at the central server level but its been creating duplicate scripts and not unbilling claims from the looted store when you pull them into your location. The third party help desks won't remote reverse claims from the stores so I can easily fill them at my location.

I spent ~2 hours trying to get a displaced patient his medications with all the hurdles I had to navigate. It was about $5k in revenue from this guy who also was a lifelong Walgreens customer. We seem very content to leave all that money on the table while also letting that sweet sweet adherence PDC tank for a bunch of these inner city 500 a day stores.

 

[Pronounce Doxazosin]

It is amazing how badly the chains have dropped the ball on continuity of care though. You can't really transfers scripts out of the closed stores because their servers are offline. At least with Walgreens the information is availble at the central server level but its been creating duplicate scripts and not unbilling claims from the looted store when you pull them into your location. The third party help desks won't remote reverse claims from the stores so I can easily fill them at my location.

I spent ~2 hours trying to get a displaced patient his medications with all the hurdles I had to navigate. It was about $5k in revenue from this guy who also was a lifelong Walgreens customer. We seem very content to leave all that money on the table while also letting that sweet sweet adherence PDC tank for a bunch of these inner city 500 a day stores.

I don’t know if it will reverse out a paid claim, but there is a way to close out a Rx from another store remotely

 

[Sine Cura]

Lol assuming PDC is good in ghetto-ass areas. What's there to tank

However badly CVS and Walgreens do it Walmart is worse. Might as well just get new rx and try to get the plan to override

 

[mentos]

It is amazing how badly the chains have dropped the ball on continuity of care though. You can't really transfers scripts out of the closed stores because their servers are offline.

A 24 hr CVS can transfer scripts out of closed CVS stores as of 3-4 years ago.

 

[Sine Cura]

Did anyone see that virtue signaling press release from Doug McMillion about Walmart's commitment to Chicago

Walmart Remains Invested in Chicago

Chicago, like cities across America, has seen its share of historic challenges these past months. And like the rest of the country, this great city is navigating a global health crisis while at the same time confronting the racism and discrimination that have perpetuated a set of systems that…

corporate.walmart.com

Collectively, these stores operate at a loss due to a combination of our sales, product margin and expenses.

NHM typically losers and expenses really means shrink incl theft