Why does walmarts pharmacies take the longest to fill prescriptions?
111309
If a company does not take care of their employees needs then you get what you get when you shop there.
501435
Wal-Mart needs to take its own share of responsibility for the workforce it hires and to the communities around where it builds.  To date, it does neither.\n\nSure, Wal-Mart supplies cheap goods to the middle class.  But, at what a cost?  They do hire lots of people, but they don't treat those people properly.  Much of Wal-Mart's workforce can't even afford the health insurance they offer on what they get paid.  Even Wal-Mart's CEO has stated that the 'free' healthcare systems may offer better coverage than Wal-Mart's plans.  Only Wal-Mart can get away with shoving off their employee's health concerns to the state and local free healthcare system.\n\nWhat people need to realize is the difference between what Wal-Mart sells and how they operate their business.  While Wal-Mart does offer good deals on items, the way they operate their business is separate from the goods they sell.  So, as a discriminating consumer, you have to diffentiate between Wal-Mart the corporation (with shady business tactics) and Wal-Mart the store (out to sell discount items)... it's basically two different things (although still connected).  While I agree we need discount stores, we don't need corporations willing to do anything to make a buck even at the expense of other businesses, workers and the local economy.\n\nCorporate Wal-Mart decides where stores are to be built and how to manage all of the details around procurement of the land, building, construction details and stocking the stores (including tax abatement and various other incentives to get them to build there).  After the store is built, however, then it's operated by the store manager who tries to do the right thing (obviously directed by regional directors and corporate HQ).  Likely most, if not all, of the not-so-savory ways of doing business are handed down by corporate WM and not by the stores or the store managers.
158153
My sister-in-law was going to try to be a pharmacists and it was going to take about 8 years to complete all the classes you have to take to get qualified, but if you're really interested in doing it I know alot of drug stores like Walgreens offer scholarships for it.  You have to sign something saying you'll work for them for a few years after graduation, but it's a pretty good deal.
92856
I believe that in New York, a written prescription expires one year after it is written.  I know that any prescription written with refills always has an expiration of one year.
759630
just go to walmart and ask the pharmacist for a copy of the list, they have a lot of the most common generics on the list, you just have to remember that the 4.00 charge is for a "normal" 30 day supply and if your prescribed amount is more than what they consider "normal" then you will pay a little more
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I dobut there is one.  The experation date listed for refills though must be calculated using the original date of writing.  ie Dr. writes it on the 3rd of April, you fill it on the 6th of Apri and it has three refills and in this case is a narcotic (limited to six months for refills, some stronger narcotics can't be "refilled", otherwise most drugs are 12months), then the last date for a refill is the 3rd of Oct, not the 6th of Oct.
908750
You have to look at how long it takes the physician to fill out the insurance forms. I have seen it an hour to complete forms for claims or for authorization. The physician usually has to pull the patient's chart, review the entire history (which some patients have charts that are 2-3 inches thick), and the physician must be familiar with what procedures and/or medications have been tried for a patient's treatment. So, where does the physician "schedule" this form into his day? During office hours? He has to see patients during office hours. He could do it on lunch. Oh, yea, he is returning calls to patients, reviewing lab tests, calling or making rounds at the hospital during lunch. Before hours? That is usually the first round of hospital rounding... After office hours? He is most likely returning all of the patient's phone calls. Plus, the insurance company isn't open before and after office hours, so if he has a question on the form, he just has to wait til 8:00 next morning... Wow! No wonder the doctors are so busy! And don't forget all those other insurance forms that only take about 5 minutes to fill out.... what if they have 20 forms for the 20-30 patients they see in a day... and the hospital patients.... Whew! Glad I am not a physician! I wouldn't have the stamina!
623128
It has that as a possibility if taken over a long peroid of time.  Most rx's are for 5 days which usually doesn't cause a problem.
648499
Pharmacists dont do the "knee capping thing"
381867
I have had this problem with many services.  The pharmacy is a good one.  I take so many meds that sometimes  I accidentally get cutt off of their automated refill system.  I will die because I have diabetes meds and drugs for my mental illness.  You can say I have a wooping pharmacy in my bathroom.  \n\nA couple times I get right down to the last one (number14)Then something  happens and I get disconnected.  Which means that I have to call back and give all those horrid pill bottle numbers to them.  I do this late at night so that I dont freak out on one of my loved one lol.  \n\nAnother automated system that I despise is aol tech support.  Oh man I could go on about them all day.  Whenever they tell you to say something(the automatic teller)is prompted.  Then they do not get anything right you tell them.  \n\nBecause of this they will trasnfer you to their first available tech support person.  Then you will wait forever listining to doctor office music.  Then finally somebody answers and you are like WOW!!!!!!! Finally...\n\nUnfortunately this representive speaks very broken english.  This really sucks.  I try not to loose my patience but my God I cannot understand what they are saying.  Then you can always call back and wait again.  Hoping and praying it is someone that you can understand.  \n\nI could go on but then I would be here for a long time.  Good question and YES it makes me mad.
192319
try their websites...I think they have some info posted on there about it(I know that walgreens does!)
1159503
Wal-Mart or a medical supply store - check the yellow pages
1179228
This kind of information is typically not public as Walmart doesn't want competitors to use the same parties that make their private brands.\n\nBut I'm sure that in most cases, it's the same companies that make the national brands. It's a pretty common practice, Kellogg's does this with cereals. But because these are processed food items, they can't really go overseas to obtain them like they would hard goods.
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Have not really thought about it. For some reason in my area, Walmart does not seem to be offering the products I want at better prices than what I can get elsewhere. When I visit friends and family in the midwest it seem the Walmart there seem have better offers.\n\nAs far as the services they offer I have not taken advance of their credit or banking service.
869948
maybe ask your pharmacist
1119319
Shoppers(best). Walmart (worst)
416903
It's because the phamacy company of the world is a big "drug dealer". They are greedy and money hungry. They give you drugs that temporary cures your problem, and then gets you dependent on them. Once you are dependent, then the have more control. The phamacy company produces drugs, and once you taken them, they will give you something else, and then it's another pill you have to take to be comfortable. (i.e. this company that i won't mention its name, make a allergy medicine for pollen..whatever... if you stop taken them you will get hives. and coincedently, the other medicine they make are hives medicine.