Walmart Asking Pharmacists To Take Pay Cuts

[Alpha8472]

They are asking pharmacists to voluntarily take pay cuts. Pharmacy hours were reduced 2 hours causing more work to be done in fewer hours. It is much more stressful and employees are overworked. You can't make a living on part time work.

At this rate pharmacists will be quiting left and right. You get your work hours reduced and your pay cut. You have to do more work in less time. This is greed. If everyone quits, then you won't have any employees to run the pharmacies. Treat the employees badly and you will lose them.

https://drugstorenews.com/walmart-repor ... -pay-hours

[veteran+]

They are asking pharmacists to voluntarily take pay cuts. Pharmacy hours were reduced 2 hours causing more work to be done in fewer hours. It is much more stressful and employees are overworked. You can't make a living on part time work.

At this rate pharmacists will be quiting left and right. You get your work hours reduced and your pay cut. You have to do more work in less time. This is greed. If everyone quits, then you won't have any employees to run the pharmacies. Treat the employees badly and you will lose them.

https://drugstorenews.com/walmart-repor ... -pay-hours

I'm not surprised.............................it's Walmart!

:twisted:

[storewanderer]

It appears the retail store based pharmacy business is basically being destroyed by the insurers and drug companies working to bleed out the pharmacy.

At least Wal Mart is trying to keep its pharmacies going, I guess. Unlike Target and various grocers.

I remember previously when Wal Mart did layoffs due to deeming pharmacies "overstaffed." I guess they took this option of attempting pay cuts (terrible idea) instead of layoffs.

[buckguy]

There a shortages of pharmacists in many places--their not saving anything and it seems pretty self defeating, esp. when you consider that pharmacists have options outside of retail stores. Walmart's real long-term problem is that they're stuck with a retail model that hasn't been able to grow non-food sales.

[mjhale]

It appears the retail store based pharmacy business is basically being destroyed by the insurers and drug companies working to bleed out the pharmacy.

I am surprised that Pharmacy Benefit Manager companies have not mandated mail order for all maintenance prescriptions in all of their plans. The prescription plan at work is through CVS/Caremark. It still allows us to get maintenance prescriptions retail but only from a CVS location. Anywhere else if you try to use your prescription benefits for maintenance prescriptions you will be denied. Every year when we get out open season literature I look for us to have to go through CVS mail order for anything other than short term medications. I realize that CVS/Caremark can still get me in their store where I might buy something. That is probably why they haven't completely made everything except short term stuff mail order.

[BillyGr]

I am surprised that Pharmacy Benefit Manager companies have not mandated mail order for all maintenance prescriptions in all of their plans.

Probably since it would wind up costing them more at the end of the day to do everything shipped, due to the costs of shipping.

For instance, picking up 4 generic prescriptions at the local pharmacy that total to just over $9. If they had to put those four bottles in something and ship, they might wind up spending more than $9 with the shipping rates these days (even more if they had to send them separately, since one costs less than $1 - that wouldn't even barely cover 1st Class rate for a couple oz.).