#retail drugs

[3garcons]

Bee Sides Fest day 2 did not have it all but did have

Service Industry, Retail Drugs, Everybody that loves you, and Senior Living

early edition

[hinge]

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[agileregulatory1]

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[ghostmachinaovgod]

Retail Drugs.

[millerflintstone]

This month into next month is going to be busy for me at work. The main executive at the state office has been sending me some urgent report requests which I've been handling.

She sent one at 4:40 ish EDT yesterday. When I went to check to see if she was still online, I saw that she wasn't. I was working on something else for her so I figured I'd just reply in the morning that I got it and would work on it next.

My boss sent me a Teams message seeing if I could take a call (I love that, btw. I hate random Teams calls with no warnings). Seems that the exec texted her asking if I had gotten her urgent email and wanted my phone number.

I am SO HAPPY my boss didn't just give her my cell. The only number on my signature is my Teams phone, which would've been fine. I let my boss know that the exec didn't mark it as urgent, so I had no idea it was another urgent one. I let my boss know what I mentioned above and she understood. My boss said she'd reply to her text letting her know I was aware and would reply to the email, which i did.

My boss was exasperated. "Boy, I tell ya, she is all over the place today!" but she stopped herself. It was enough venting to let me know she wasn't happy about the situation but she remained professional.

This is a way different experience than when the head of one department just gave my cell number to a vendor who tried to get me to join a meeting after I logged off for work. That story is here (x) and happened during my two weeks for leaving the hell TX job.

The gist of the video is that the department head wanted manual corrections to things that should not have been manually corrected and was not part of my job. My boss at the time tried to back me up and the department head/ director looped in the CEO, CFO and some other c suite person. So glad I'm not there anymore

[ahhvernin]

possibly unpopular opinion: OTC drugs, over the counter drugs meaning meds you don't need a prescription for, a med you should be easily access and buy from the store and go home without judgement....is no longer really OTC if you lock everything up behind a cabinet.

You have to wait for like 15-20 minutes for a sales associate to come over and unlock, say a cabinet of cold medicine.

The entire time they are hovering.

Which makes it near impossible to sit or stand there comparing and contrasting the different brands, to make judgement calls on which one is best suitable for you, especially if they're just sighing, rolling their eyes and telling you to hurry up.

Most of the time they lock it in a box.

Sometimes they hand it to you but other times they carry said box to the front counter.

At that point, just put them behind the counter and I will badger the pharmacist for the next 15-20 minutes about the pros cons and ingredients of said drugs.

6. What the fuck are these little credit card like cards for the OTC drug that say "Bring card to the pharmacist, meanwhile on the back is the drugs label but its damn near impossible to read because the image is blurry as heck and TINY AF. I am not that old and I was struggling to read the ingredients and side effects on the back. Your loss prevention method SUCKS. People who need medicine shouldn't have to deal with some overworked retail sales associate dropping exasperated sighs and telling you to hurry the fuck up because they have work to do, because the whole point was you wanted to shop somewhere local and get something that is on the shelf but now its locked up...I might as well go home and do the whole process online on my computer and order off online. Plus people who want to quietly shop and keep interactions at a minimum are probably just skipping the item because of the wait time to find someone with the damn key and then have to deal with the unhappy sales associate that you have now inconvenienced. Also your damn call button is BROKEN. Also sometimes people do not want to wait an additional 20 damn minutes to get fever reducer for their sick kid, when they could have just grabbed it off the shelf along with all the other things, paid and leave to take care of the kid within 5 minutes.

Also why is basic toothpaste being locked up????????? It's TOOTHPASTE. You brush your teeth with it and then you spit it out. I'm talking your basic Crest and Colgate like the $2.00 tubes. I'm not talking about the fancy electric toothbrushes, which I can understand being locked up. $2 toothpaste?????

[risu75]

Vintage 1980s LaVerdiere's Drug price tag. This was on an old package of Sylvania brand camera flashcubes.

[tamapalace]

London Drugs Carrying Tamagotchi Pix Party and Might Soon Get Tamagotchi Uni

Having troubles finding a Tamagotchi Pix Party in Canada? Well Supersabotenshi on Instagram was browsing their local London Drugs, a Canadian retail pharmacy chain and discovered that they were carrying the Tamagotchi Pix Party! London Drugs is only located in Western Canadian provinces which includes British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

Although this is a previous model, it was super exciting because there really aren’t many retail stores carrying Tamagotchi in Canada, which we hope changes very soon. The Tamagotchi Pix Party is even listed on London Drugs’ website too, priced at $79.99 but currently marked down to $59.99. It also appears that they are only carrying the balloons shell at this time.

No sight of the Tamagotchi Uni yet, which was just released back in July 2023, but the cashier did mention to Supersabotenshi that they were “getting the new one soon”. The cashier did not specify Tamagotchi Uni, but it very well could be!

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

No seriously looking back on this year there was no middle ground. It was either the Best most Amazing things or the absolute Kill-Yourself worst. Need a year of even keel normalcy with some everyday types of joy and sorrow in 2024 pls.

[t1meslayer]

I’ve been trying to write my Valentine’s Day story but work sapped all of my energy recently. Just the absolute most eeby sleeby. Insane bed boi behavior.

Pls lend me your strength 😔

[cosmogenous]

I'm so out of mojo lately

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Seeing the careers your classmates went into after high school is wild

[ballsballsbowls]

I cannot stress enough that is not directly relevant to the amphetamine shortage, as it happened at a retail pharmacy a DECADE ago, but perhaps this little anecdote will give some insight into pharmacy ordering.

At one of my retail jobs, a decade ago, we had an older woman who received a 90-day supply of Lomotil in our pharmacy. Lomotil (Diphenoxylate / Atropine) is a Schedule 5 medication, so just barely problematic enough to need government regulation.

This woman got it from us presumably because she was unable to get it via mail order because it was 1.) a controlled medication and 2.) a PRN (as needed) script.

Her dose was up to 6 tablets a day as needed, for 90 days, which if you are playing along at home is FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY TABLETS. We could only get it in bottles of 100. She is also the only customer we currently have who gets Lomotil. Like, in 4 years there, I did not dispense a single tablet of Lomotil to anyone BUT her.

So, from her POV, she is a customer at the same pharmacy for years and comes in for this same script multiple times a year when her bottle is nearly empty, so why are we ALWAYS out of stock when she comes in?

From the other side of the counter, this is just a combination of corporate and federal policies combining in the worst possible way:

1. The normal way we solve a rare-ish med issue is by convincing the customer to let us auto-fill it. Auto-filling gives us a few days’ leeway before it should be out (usually 5), and combining that with something like text alerts lets them know when we actually physically have it ready for pickup.

Because it is a controlled medication, and PRN, we cannot auto-fill it.

2. Next solution is that if they get others meds, we might nudge them about it when they come in for something else. “How are you on your other medication? Ready to refill it? Want have us get it started now?”

Because she didn’t get any other meds with us, there was no way to find out if she was ready to refill.

3. The FINAL strategy that we have is C5 meds (and non-controls) can be auto-ordered from the warehouse based on usage patterns, and sent in . So that should have caught it, right?

Well, at my pharmacy, the predictive ordering only captured the last 90 days. 

Because she had a 90 day supply, and took it PRN, she usually came back in about every 100 days. Just OUTSIDE of the capture window of predictive ordering.

So every time she came in, without fail, we did not have her meds.

And none of us were about to ORDER the medicine unless she came in, because that is SIX bottles of a medication we will never dispense if she switched pharmacies or died

And this was one woman with one medication. Multiply all of these cost-saving strategies across hundreds of medications in dozens of sizes and dose forms and you can get a sense of the scope of the problem.

[janhooks]

4x07 and 4x08 both start with john coming back from a commerce planet... you know how it is... men be shopping

[sufficientlylargen]

I forgot about drugs for a minute and thought they meant, like, up in the rafters of a bass pro shop.