I, for one, don’t mind leaving the house every so often to purchase items. And, and, I do not order ahead and have the items brought to me in my car.
There may be other items I want or need, but aren’t right on my mind, so I get those, too.
I go to some sort of store probably three days a week. Not including food shopping. That’s maybe six days a week. I frickin love food shopping.
I just wish that online pharmacies worked for stuff you’re supposed to start taking “now”…or that Amazon pharmacy would fill scheduled substances…or that refrigerated meds wouldn’t sometimes be lost or delayed in shipping.
Yeah, it’s not just CVS, brick and mortar pharmacies are closing everywhere, and that’s bad news.
I discovered that my local hospital has a pharmacy. If i see a doctor there, i can swing by the pharmacy on the way out and get that drug now. It’s a good pharmacy, if a bit out of the way. They do mail-order, too. So I’ve moved some of my routine meds away from express scripts to the hospital. And weirdly, a lot of meds are cheaper without the “insurance”.
This might as well be about Walgreens, which has made mistake after mistake for years and has a stock price that’s -89% from it’s all-time high in 2015 and no sign of stopping it’s decline.
The Consumer Value Store is one of the largest companies in the world (by revenue) and their market cap is around 70B compared to Walgreens 10B. CVS is focusing more on being a health service company with a pharmacy rather than a pharmacy with some health services.