It doesn't seem to affect Walgreens' pockets since that is a small share of their CA buyer base.
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Ok, this is the best CA could do.
CA is ending a contract to buy "specialty pharmacy items" for prisons from Walgreens.
The news says Walgreens has gotten "about $54 million from the contract" and that the contract ends April 30. I am curious when this contract started. Was it last year? Two years ago? $54 million even if was a one year contract is little more than a rounding error for Walgreens, hardly a material business loss.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/californ ... 13393.html
Sorry but this is a complete joke.
Now if CA was pulling some of the benefits contracts through the health care system and saying they could no longer go to Walgreens, that would be billions of dollars of business lost, and that would absolutely be something Walgreens would feel.
CA is ending a contract to buy "specialty pharmacy items" for prisons from Walgreens.
The news says Walgreens has gotten "about $54 million from the contract" and that the contract ends April 30. I am curious when this contract started. Was it last year? Two years ago? $54 million even if was a one year contract is little more than a rounding error for Walgreens, hardly a material business loss.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/californ ... 13393.html
Sorry but this is a complete joke.
Now if CA was pulling some of the benefits contracts through the health care system and saying they could no longer go to Walgreens, that would be billions of dollars of business lost, and that would absolutely be something Walgreens would feel.
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The Airhead Governor of California doesn’t understand that Walgreens is required to follow all laws of the various states it operates in-including such things as liquor sales and the sale of certain drugs. The same for other mass retailers. And Walgreens does fill prescriptions for abortion pills in California.
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The thing is every other chain has the exact same situation as Walgreens has regarding this issue. The thing that got the CA Governor so upset is that Walgreens actually wrote a letter to 20 states that said they will not dispense this particular drug in those states where it is illegal to do so.jamcool wrote: ↑March 9th, 2023, 10:52 pm The Airhead Governor of California doesn’t understand that Walgreens is required to follow all laws of the various states it operates in-including such things as liquor sales and the sale of certain drugs. The same for other mass retailers. And Walgreens does fill prescriptions for abortion pills in California.
The other issue is typically government contracts have to go through a procurement process. There are Federal guidelines for this if Federal money is involved. Many of these CA programs that buy Prescriptions are using Federal money that is passed through to State of California to administer said prescription purchase programs. There are Federal guidelines regarding procurement processes that must be followed; competitive bidding, etc.
I do not think the reasons for the California Governor claiming the state is "done with Walgreens" would be compliant with Federal procurement policies to allow them to just end contracts.
Also still waiting to hear how long this April 30 expiring prison specialty drug contract that they say got Walgreens $54 million in revenue lasted for. I am suspecting this was a 3-5 year contract (if it was a shorter duration I think we would know).
This whole thing is just a complete joke. Meaningless.
CA is not "done with Walgreens" in the slightest.
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Do we have to get political here?jamcool wrote: ↑March 9th, 2023, 10:52 pm The Airhead Governor of California doesn’t understand that Walgreens is required to follow all laws of the various states it operates in-including such things as liquor sales and the sale of certain drugs. The same for other mass retailers. And Walgreens does fill prescriptions for abortion pills in California.
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It is tough not to, but I tried in a roundabout way in my post to describe the details of the situation. The biggest thing I see is from a compliance perspective. Potentially not legal to do this based on Federal procurement policies if Federal dollars are involved.retailfanmitchell019 wrote: ↑March 10th, 2023, 5:32 pmDo we have to get political here?jamcool wrote: ↑March 9th, 2023, 10:52 pm The Airhead Governor of California doesn’t understand that Walgreens is required to follow all laws of the various states it operates in-including such things as liquor sales and the sale of certain drugs. The same for other mass retailers. And Walgreens does fill prescriptions for abortion pills in California.
Now if Walgreens failed to provide the goods in a timely manner, was constantly out of stock, kept sending damaged goods, etc., then they could claim non-performance and even if Walgreens was the lowest bidder, they could document those issues (best to have a "case file" built over time) and justify not using Walgreens based on past poor experience.
However, not using Walgreens because the CA Governor is "upset about a letter they wrote to 20 other state attorney generals" - that is not going to be compliant with Federal procurement policy.
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To de-politicize things,two more acquired RAD locations are biting the dust:a Montgomery,Alabama location that was a Harco or K&B(article say K&B but my intuition tells me Harco since it was Alabama-based before RAD acquired it and K&B as it was integrating the ThriftyPayless acquisition)before RAD(don't know if it ever got a wellness conversion) and a Conton,NY location that RAD had barely opened as a replacement for an older store when it was included in the WBA divestitures.
For your life,Thrifty and Payless have got it.
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I heard the Walgreens in Mill Valley can't sell food right now due to rodent problems.norcalriteaidclerk wrote: ↑March 11th, 2023, 11:04 pm To de-politicize things,two more acquired RAD locations are biting the dust:a Montgomery,Alabama location that was a Harco or K&B(article say K&B but my intuition tells me Harco since it was Alabama-based before RAD acquired it and K&B as it was integrating the ThriftyPayless acquisition)before RAD(don't know if it ever got a wellness conversion) and a Conton,NY location that RAD had barely opened as a replacement for an older store when it was included in the WBA divestitures.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/bay ... o-rodents/
Funny they can dispense prescriptions with a rodent problem yet can't sell pre-packaged food.
Maybe due to how Walgreens is built the pharmacy area did not attract any rodents.
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The prescription pharmacy is designed to be totally rodent free. There are no spaces for rodents to enter. There are no gaps in the floor or under doors.
They do not allow food, the prescription drug areas are totally clean, dust free, organized, and neat. There are cameras recording every angle and every pill count. If a pill drops on the floor it is to be destroyed. Filling prescriptions is designed to be more sterile and orderly than food preparation. Each pill is examined and accounted for. Even if one pill is missing, the computer is supposed to track the numbers.
They do not allow food, the prescription drug areas are totally clean, dust free, organized, and neat. There are cameras recording every angle and every pill count. If a pill drops on the floor it is to be destroyed. Filling prescriptions is designed to be more sterile and orderly than food preparation. Each pill is examined and accounted for. Even if one pill is missing, the computer is supposed to track the numbers.
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Just FYI - that second title should be Canton, NY (the actual link has that). A smaller town in the state, but still sort of surprising that a new store wouldn't do at least OK (being that it had to be OK enough to get the new store built to begin with under Rite Aid, as they did keep many older and smaller stores, even ones that they took over from others, or acquired in that setting from the Eckerd merger here in NY).norcalriteaidclerk wrote: ↑March 11th, 2023, 11:04 pm To de-politicize things,two more acquired RAD locations are biting the dust:a Montgomery,Alabama location that was a Harco or K&B(article say K&B but my intuition tells me Harco since it was Alabama-based before RAD acquired it and K&B as it was integrating the ThriftyPayless acquisition)before RAD(don't know if it ever got a wellness conversion) and a Conton,NY location that RAD had barely opened as a replacement for an older store when it was included in the WBA divestitures.