Was looking for pharmacy hours. Need my meds today.
"AI overview" showed me it was open til 10pm. I squinted and looked at the correct results below: open until 7pm.
Going to gets my meds now before it closes.
Fuck AI.
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Seems universal that pharmacies are open until 7 with a closure from 1:30 to 2 for lunch. 6 PM on Sundays.
I'm not even on CVS and mine runs the same hours.
If they ran enough people they could stagger lunch hours and not have to close for that 30 mins (which is ridiculous for a lunch break, even if you brought something). But we're talking about stores that have made having maybe two on the floor stocking with one running to the register when needed, and only a few in the pharmacy to handle lines inside and the drive-thru.
And it's considered the norm now in the US. Because what is your option for the medical part? They're all the same, they've made most family owned stores close, and often your insurance through your employer (another racket itself) requires you go to a particular brand. The only real choice you have is which store if you're in an urban area. Sometimes driving a few more miles to the next one means you find stuff in stock and you get waited on faster.
From what I've seen, it's not a problem with the pharmacy techs, it's the pharmacist proper. If the pharmacist is out, then the techs can't deliver the drugs because of consultations.
This is the reason 100%. The Pharmacist and consultations is what matters. Pharmacies rarely hire to have more than 1 pharmacist on at any given time. Just like many stores only have 1 manager on at a time.
Hell, in some areas where legal, CVS and the like have been trying to switch to remote pharmacists via video calls to not even have to hire for each location! Just taking absolute minimum staffing to the next level to optimize profits even more. You thought it was bad not having an extra employee to cover call outs and vacation? Now it's being constantly understaffed to optimize profit.
Right, so to close for any time implies there's only one pharmacist on duty. I don't even mind having a down time for lunch really, it's just that it's too short to be realistic, and it's solely to minimize the labor, which is always the first thing to squeeze.
Our Rite Aid is open 8am to 9pm with a 30 min lunch. Too bad the store part looks like it belongs in the Fallout series.
Still, I'm never going back to CVS.
Our Rite Aid had some kind of AC problem so they were running duct work up and down the aisles trying to keep the place cool and all I could think of was:
https://youtu.be/K9gO01pyv24