CVS Is Turning Locked Shelves Into an Excuse to Make You Download Its App

[threshold_dweller@lemmy.today]

I suppose ignorance is bliss, as they say.

[shawn1122@lemm.ee]

This might be too complicated for the average consumer at CVS, which tends to skew towards an older demographic.

[goatmeal@midwest.social]

Let’s go one step further and make them a gig worker so CVS doesn’t have to pay them for downtime and instead we get to tip

[no_ones_slick_like_gaston@lemmy.world]

Fuck nope.

[aceshigh@lemmy.world]

lol good luck with that. when they (and rite aid) started locking up their shelves I stopped buying from them.

[aceshigh@lemmy.world]

I buy those items from my large grocery store. They have sales too so the goods are fairly priced.

[01189998819991197253@infosec.pub]

Kenny's the man. Also, he doesn't like to be tagged just a cocaine dealer, or even just a drug dealer. Kenny's got range.

[delightfullydivisive@lemmy.world]

Not if you buy them from me. High quality, low prices!

[rakudjo@lemmy.world]

Pharmacy technician here. When we bill a prescription, the processing information (either from your insurance card, or from GoodRX) is entered into the computer, then the claim (including the drug being billed, day supply, and patient information) are sent to the benefits manager (PBM), and returned to give us a determined copay to charge you. It's during this transaction, that by using GoodRX, your information has been volunteered to GoodRX as part of the billing process.

We do not determine copays - PBMs and your plan formulary do. You showing us a dollar sign on GoodRX does not guarantee you that price.

As an aside, my particular pharmacy does not accept GoodRX due to knowledge of these practices. It may also be interesting to know that GoodRX charges pharmacies a "finder's fee" for offering a discounted price e.g. you pay the pharmacy $25 for a $22 drug, and the pharmacy pays GoodRX $5. If you can still find independent pharmacies, support them! They will work with you.

[captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org]

Do you deliver, or should I just meet you out behind the club next to the green trash bin like usual?

[john89@lemmy.ca]

I'll support whoever gives me the best deal!

It's just business~

[delightfullydivisive@lemmy.world]

The usual spot. The same amount of Viagra and Ducolax as last time?

[digitalnirvana@lemm.ee]

lol, no.