I take one prescription per day. For someone my age, that’s pretty good. I have friends that take half a dozen or more meds I am not counting vitamins. I take a couple of those.
Anyhow, I used to deal with Target. but hated driving to their location. It was like Death Race 2000 going there.
I switched to Walgreen which is nice and close.
I had no idea how abysmal their service was until I experienced it for myself. If you call them you will get a robot. Nobody human ever answers the phone. There is one number for both the store and the pharmacy. That alone is ridiculous. You literally can not get through.
All last week I got e mails telling me they were “working on” my prescription. It is an inhaler. There is nothing to “work on”. Its not like they are busily plying their mortars and pestles grinding up exotic ingredients, just for me. Then, this morning, I got an e mail telling me my prescription would be “delayed” because they were out of stock and they would let me know when it would be back in stock. Fellas, this is a breathing medication which is to be taken every day. Once a day at the same time every day. Never mind letting me know when it would be back in stock.
I called the store and by some miracle got a human being who got me through to the pharmacy. I explained the situation and the pharmacist told me she had one. I said that was fine because one is all that I buy at a time–our apartment gets far too warm sometimes for a volatile medicine like that.
I went to Walgreens and you should have seen the line in the pharmacy. I had forgotten we are in the middle of a flu epidemic here in New Jersey
Oh boy! Just what I needed. To be standing in a crowd of probably sick people, breathing in germs and assorted cooties for half an hour. I felt like I was in an incubator. The woman behind me was so close, I doubt if you could have slid a piece of paper between us.
After about 20 minutes, I was able to get out of there.
When I came home, there was an e mail telling me I could come in and pick up my prescription.
Some service.
Patty
And how about service in chain restaurants and fast-food places, it has gone downhill along with the food quality, but the prices keep going up.
You’ve got that right!
All customer service seems to have been moved to automated phone systems. I don’t like it, especially for something as critical as healthcare matters. I’m fortunate, in that I can use a nearby supermarket for prescription services and, likewise, my doctor’s office actually lets you talk to a human. Sadly, this sort of thing is becoming rare.
As to prices, I’m nonplussed. I was up in the city a few days ago, and decided to grab a Bacon, Egg and Cheese Biscuit at McDonalds. They had no prices posted on the drive through menu, and it was nearly $8, for a scrawny biscuit, a slice of cheese, an egg and a small slice of bacon. Ridiculous!
I have heard that the fast food places prices are going through the roof.
It’s insane. I occasionally drop by Wendy’s for a burger, no drink and no fries. Count on roughly ten bucks. When I was a kid, you could get two burgers, an order of fries and a drink for considerably less than a buck.
Ten bucks for a burger? Holy mackerel. I haven’t been to a fast food place in years, but that is pretty outrageous.
Yeah, it’s ridiculous, but $8 for a Bacon, Egg and Cheese Biscuit is even more ridiculous. That just amazed me.
Where will this end?
A Denarius for a quart of wheat. 🙂
Ha ha.