Erm, that's not illegal ☝️🤓 Its corporstions legal right to provide no service, no jobs, and maximum profit. Infact you are not entitled to services, but corporations are entitled to profits lost from government intervention.
Liu Cixin wrote a novella about exactly that, where property rights are so enshrined that it becomes impossible for everyone else to revolt. It's an interesting thought experiment.
The consolidation of wealth during COVID made it very clear. It's also why societies are reflexively moving right. They're just blaming the wrong/easy targets.
I was on a medication for months. Went to pick up my refill and my insurance had denied it so it was going to cost me $250. I called my insurance company and was told that I had to get it at Walgreens. The nearest Walgreens was over 20 miles away, instead of 5 minutes from my local pharmacy, but I also had to call my doctor and have them move my prescription. I was also pissed because they didn't even inform me that they were going to suddenly no longer cover my prescription at ny pharmacy. They just stopped without warning. The US healthcare system exists to kill you. Brian Thompson killed way more people than whoever killed him.
Corporations under capitalism exists to make ever increasing profits and if their services/products are worse or better quality they just don't care. They dgaf about you dying or getting better, they only care about how much money they can make off of you. Absolutely inhumane.
My favorite part of this system is that when it inevitably collapses, the government will prop up its corpse as long as possible with our tax dollars. Workers ALWAYS lose under capitalism.
@@EddieRod corporatism IS capitalism. its the last stage of capitalism before it mutates into oligarchy. its a FEATURE. not a bug. which is why capitalism is bad.
I know that's what they do in a lot of places, but for some reason the CVS near downtown Mobile (where I live) suddenly closed down a couple years ago, despite being the only pharmacy in quite a large radius. I still don't know why that happened.
Every company is doing this. They all say, "Sorry, we went over hours; we're gonna have to cut." And they're already understaffing every store with record profits. It's time to start unions, no matter what!
Um! After caluclating for 50 million dollars profit and all our shareholder dividends, we can't afford more employees. Or benifits. Or raises. If labor went above 10%, think about the poor do-nothings who won't get 90% return on investment?
Yeah I literally got fired today. I was literally the top performer, with a future in management and got kicked out because…? Got served an email at 6.
"They're just sitting around, with infinite money." And that allows them to buy shares of _everything,_ so they get paid no matter what we buy. Coke and Pepsi don't compete with each other, *because they're both owned by **_the same_** shareholders.* 🤨
I bought stock in Verizon and Wallgreens a while back as a way to offset their upcharging and get some of my money back from them through the dividends. I started following news about their financials and one thing that baffled me was how people would stomp their feet and complain about flat customer growth in market segments like cell phone plans or total medicine purchases while citing sales data from decades ago, demanding a repeat of that growth. Some of these financial guys are so dumb that they really do believe in infinite growth and would kill a golden goose only to complain about the lack of eggs
I fully admit that economics is one of those subjects that I have a hard time grasping past the basics. But isn't infinite, unchecked growth basically how cancer works?
I used to be a pharmacy technician at many Walgreens along the Gulf Coast. We went days without power due to hurricanes frequently. It’s so humid and the lack of refrigeration causes obvious discoloration and physical changes in the meds (which can alter the drugs - literally says to maintain a specific humidity and temperature for many drugs). We weren’t allowed to get rid of these drugs. We had to give them out. There was always a lack of staff and an insane amount of tasks and I’d be the only one actively working on the tasks. We literally had a coworker that was talking about a civil war and arming herself at work leading up to the election. I wore a mask and would get cursed out and reported weekly by middle aged bald men coming to pick up their erectile dysfunction meds. Why wear a mask? Rebecka would literally come up to the counter with open wounds bleeding onto the counter or nonstop coughing everywhere and wiping their noses with their hands. I would just routinely clean blood and mucous from the counters and was handed money covered in bodily fluids. There was a lot of talks about the company losing lawsuits and about many locations closing before I left.
First day as a tech, typical Rebekah comes in for Paxolvid (=has Covid) with her nose sticking out of her mask and she's hard of hearing. She leans in to hear better, then literally 6 inches from face pulls down her mask (idk why) and before she can talk has this massive sneeze all over my face. I was kind until the pharmacist chewed her out for being irresponsible to us. Another deplorable dck-bag, total dead weight on America.
I used to work at a Walgreens in Fort Myers, Florida. Just an average cashier but sometimes I had to go to the pharmacy dept. to help out. Wouldn't have been so bad but every 3rd prescription had an insurance issue I couldn't handle and the pharmacist was obnoxious constantly. I came this close )( to telling the manager "No, I don't want to work with her." This was over 20 years ago but I'm still sore about it.
I used to work at a CVS before the pandemic. I was a pharmacy tech. This was before Covid, so I got away with wearing a mask before it was politicized. Have nothing good to say about CVS but it truly shocks me how dumb the people coming in could be. We were clearly all over worked and understaffed. Someone would come in, see me running two registers at 7 in the morning to drop off a script, then would come back at 5 pm see me still running two registers and scream about me about how slow we all were working. I never took my scheduled breaks, there was never time. I developed a UTI. So many stories about this place I don't even know where to begin.
@@Llkc60 Because they are heavily regulated which is not really that different to socializing them. In Germany for example while technically private businesses basically every aspect of how they can be run is specified in law. There are also significant restrictions on who can even own them. There aren't any large corporations like this. Yes this is a completely different system and yes it matters.
@@XMysticHerox what does socializing mean? this is a fabrication of the american psyche. there is heavy regulation of pharmacies in the United States as well. Yes, the difference is that there is less market concentration and more regulation. we have laws against making people work unpaid overtime. The situation described in this video can only happen in highly oligopolistic/monopolistic market. it is not a market failure, unregulated capitalism naturally leads to such structures (see Marx). Yet Europe stands as an example that capitalism can work in a different more humane way. Thus my argument stands that it's the people running the system and the people consuming in this system not being able to do anything to change the rules governing corporations. it's a failure of democracy and a sign that your way of capitalism delivers worse outcomes than our model.
@@MsScarletwings You shouldn't. There's no need for 50 "types" of mustard, which in reality are just the same mustard with a different label slapped on to it. And if mustard production is socialized, there's also no need for co-ops. That would just be a step backwards.
No socialist nation in all of human history ever lowered a price. In contrast the CPI has literally fallen (prices across the board have dropped) over last year.................... But I mean those are just numbers: I'm sure you're subjective opinion on price trends is more accurate.
A nice reminder that it is not the fault of the pharmacists. They're doing their best in shitty conditions. No one in that building could've done that.
My mom works in the lower half of upper management at CVS/Aetna. After several rounds of layoffs, they just recently gave her a budget from corporate management for this year with onlly half (at best) the amount of money it takes to fund her teams, who are already overloaded and working well over 40 hours a week. She has to send back a report balancing that budget with details of the labor cost of each employee so they can decide who to layoff again. They didnt care nor ask what was needed to actually maintain profitability or accomplish their goals before drafting the budget. It was all just decided blindly by the shareholders, and they expect the employees to just make it happen magically. It's a classic shitshow example of investor run businessing. Plus about half their mid-management and developers are now overseas hires from India because they want to get cheaper labor and employees they can coerce into working 20 hours of overtime per week. (not exaggerating)
Every time I hear anything to do with drugs or healthcare in the US, it's like "if you're making $100k or more a year you're fine, otherwise you die". It's legitimately worse than most developing countries, where you just get your meds or health service and go about your day. Not to speak of first-world nations
@@JohnDoe-kp5dm insulin is genuinely free for diabetics here in Sweden. Just because you were born with shitty genes shouldn't mean a life ruining subscription service to living. Edit. Literally enter any single pharmacy tell them you're a diabetic, they'll check your journal and issue insulin. The journal system is centralized away from corporations.
My sister makes $140k, unfortunately she lives in Portland, Oregon and got long COVID. She's draining her savings to pay for healthcare, and since long COVID is so new and treatment are just being pioneered, she's spending all that money for little to no relief.
I think the most disgusting part is the security cameras. Most cvs stores have security cameras all over the staff, but the ones on the sales floor dont work and theres almost never cameras in the parking lot. They dont care if customers steal or assault staff, but they make sure they keep a very close eye on employees. Its sad af.
My aunt has been working for CVS MinuteClinic for almost a decade and managed COVID testing for Florida for CVS for a good part of the pandemic, and it has gotten so much worse the past few years. All the voices at the top are business majors, not nurses. They really are driving people to the edge for a tiny bit more peofit.
@Hayden_Lummus yeah, I kno someone gonna call me out on the age so technically it's been around over 20 years but CVS bought it in 2006, renamed it and opened the first ones inside a CVS location less than 5 years ago. So yeah, they took a working model and ruined it in less than 5 years.
I overheard an older pharmacist talking to a new pharmacist during my time at Walgreens: “If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t working fast enough.”
This reminds me of a memo that leaked out of a Canning Company, they were mandating shifting away from canning corn, peas, etc...to things like leeks etc...because the average consumer couldn't afford to purchase the cheaper products enough to justify canning them and they would make more money canning more luxury items that sell for more individually. This was around 2017-18
I used to work at CVS but I quit because my store was horribly understaffed. Everyone knew it, our pharmacists complained to corporate but were essentially told to pound sand, I briefly discussed some sort of worker action with some of my colleagues and while some of them were sympathetic ultimately the store pharmacists shut it down because they were terrified of corporate because they all had massive student loans from college and could not afford to risk their jobs. I understood but I was fed up so I quit, best decision I ever made. I got a job at the local hospital and was much better off because it is essentially community run and a great place to work. Just 2 months after I got a job there my lead pharmacist from my former CVS got a job at the Hospital pharmacy as well, and we both talked about how much better we were off. That said my Hospital job is somewhat at risk too as because it is community run it is not profitable and runs at a loss, it only survives because of state funding, if that ever dries up ...
Why focus on the negatives? Think about the positives like all the profits being sucked out at the top for the billionaire class? They can buy bigger yachts now, or private armies to fight off the pitchfork-wielding Luigis.
Just today I had an experience where I applied to an open position in my local CVS that they had open for the last few months looking for someone, and instead of accepting any applications, they closed the opening because "CVS has decided to not fill this position."
I used to work at and my parents still do at a pharmacy--that was formerly a family owned business and is now owned by a chain--that is set to go out of business by the end of the year, and it's mostly because the corporate management has slowly gutted the store of everything that made it money while barely giving it enough to stay afloat in the interest of maximizing their profit margins. The final nail in the coffin was ironically getting rid of the alcohol, tobacco, lotto, etc in the front of the store that made most of its money. That change made the difference of having rushes and regular lines to DEAD; multiple hours without customers. I guess they don't call us Beer City for nothing lol
I work at cvs as a pharmacy technician and i can confirm all of this. We are getting busier and getting less hours. Every time one of our workers leaves, our hours get cut so we cannot hire more help. We are leaving at the end of the day with hundreds of prescriptions overdue for the day, and coming in the next day the systems incentivize you to work on the prescriptions that are coming in rather than the ones that are already overdue because "if it is already late then it doesnt look bad on our "numbers" if they stay red, but it does look bad if more go red" so our system is designed to keep late prescriptions late. this includes antibiotics, insulin, antivirals, etc.
We need to make dividend investing cool again. Jesus. That at least made sense. You didnt count on increased growth, you bought good company, and built a portfolio of companies that paid you a portion of their profits.
It's more than that. It's also the fact that providing a better service takes actual effort and money. The strategy of not hiring workers is easier. That's the race to to bottom that infects all capitalistic endeavors
this same thing is happening to my local Riteaid which is a major pharmacy chain. long lines, no workers, stores a mess, elderly people worried about the prescriptions. enshitification of America, all to make that line go up for the few. Economic Terrorism being committed against our own citizens.
This is so interesting to me - this winter I had a trip to Italy as part of my work benefits, and when I tell you there was a pharmacy around every single corner? It was actually insane in Florence and Venice the way I couldn't turn down a street without seeing a new pharmacy. How do we function without that? It made life INSANELY BETTER for just a week the way I could always find something I needed
Americans can’t fathom walking down a street and seeing a grocery store, coffee shop, clothes, bakery, restaurant and pharmacy and if any of these things are missing there’s sure to be a few the next street over. Love driving (not walking) half an hour to the nearest store despite living in the center of town
I use a local pharmacy always. My meds would be free if I went to chains but I pay full price (about $80 a month) to support them and make sure I get good service. I make about 50k/year.
I got a job as a shift manager at CVS for about three months and it was a nightmare. I've never worked somewhere so poorly run and staffed before. It was demoralizing.
The UK ain’t perfect but at least our pharmacies are funded partially by the NHS. I’ve had to wait 2-3 days for a prescription, not a whole ass month. Wish I could send you guys free healthcare.
I remember doing module training for CVS in 2022. On one of the slides, there’s a goal for patients to pick up their autofill prescriptions, and that’s where they make most of their money. I was appalled. I had to quit no notice because I got scheduled 5 hrs a week consistently and I was new. YES, they want us to stay sick so they can get more money.
Front store cvs employee here: the lock cases are because of resale theft, people come in and take all the Dove body wash stock, and we have to beg them to get them installed.
I'm glad they've sold all locations here in PR to local pharmacies. They actually employ people, and the profits aren't sent to Delaware or some other state.
My insurance only pays for prescriptions if I go to CVS. I refuse to go to CVS. I've been paying out-of-pocket for prescriptions at my local pharmacy for years now. CVS and my insurance company may be conspiring to put my pharmacy out of business, but I'm certainly not going to help them do it.
I worked at an ACE hardware back home and it was great. I started working at one here by my college and it was so shortstaffed i quit out of frustrstion. That and they paid super horribly. There were days where there were only three of us: a cashier, a manager, and floor person (help customers and stock shit). This was while we were selling Christmas trees, meaning that if somebody bought one the store would go down to just two workers while either the manger or i went out and handled that. It was horrible.
@@ozzybloke4830 The Deprogram is also a good podcast/ TH-cam channel with the Second Thought guy, Yugopnik, and Hakim (two other pretty good you-tubers). Second Thought/ More Perfect Union seem more geared towards being an entry point for liberals and normies.
The hiring policy of the traditional pharmacy chains (CVS, Walgreens, etc) for a was to hire at offensively low wages to new grads who need to take something to pay their loans. Eventually the class size of pharmacy schools plummeted due to poor prospects and now there's a massive shortage of pharmacists (as well as other healthcare workers). The chain pharmacies can't rely on desperation from new grads anymore as there aren't enough to staff all the stores and the pharmacists have the leverage in the labor market so now these stores are heavily understaffed and often close early on weekdays and weekends or close down altogether. It's hilarious for those companies but sucks for the civilians who need their medication who can't even transfer to another store because there's no staff to make the phone call.
Ex cvs pharmacy tech here, i only lasted about a year and a half. Understaffed, cut hours, low pay, on top of the daily and weekly tasks that needed to completed in a certain amount of time, covid testing, data filing, etc My location closed just last year.
The guilt I feel as I stand with tears in my eyes giving 10,000 sorries to the CVS employee unlocking the fake lashes for me... they have so many things to juggle it's INSANE😭the staff may as well only let 3 customers in at a time because if you need more than 1 thing you're likely gonna be waving them down for keys constantly.
We’re making profits! Now, if we could just lay off a few more employees, and cut down on those hours, we could make 2% higher record for our profits 🤩
I used to be a Walgreens pharmacy tech. We were constantly understaffed. We would on a daily basis be about 100 To 200 prescriptions behind. It was insane. I was expected to do the multitude of daily tasks to maintain the pharmacy and assist the customers at the register while also typing, reviewing and filling their prescription all at the same time with a line of customers waiting in store and in drive through.
Sounds like the CVS I worked at 20 years ago. The photo lab was supposed to be open 12 hours a day and have a specially trained full-time manager. I was the only person in the lab, they worked me 39.9 hours a week, and expected me to do the manager work with no training.
The cvs near me is terrible empty shelves, not that many workers. As much as I hate buying online its frustrating how much the stores are being rundown by dumb corporate interests.
Maybe if a single thing of deodorant didn’t cost 5-12 dollars people wouldn’t be stealing them so much, they have to raise prices to make back the profits lost in theft but the higher prices go up the more theft there will be.
PBMs are insane. The same parent company owns the Health Insurance, the PBM, and the Pharmacy. When you really look into it, it's just extremely blatant anti-competitive monopolist stuff.
CVS makes all that money because they don’t spend on payroll. They expect the front store to be run with just two employees. That makes the cashier responsible for manning the self checkouts, the actual register, the processing of photos and photo products, that need to be put together. They also need to fill online orders, while the other employee, a manager is performing many more tasks to maintain the store in stock levels, prices, ordering, receiving vendors, etc…. Trust me, it is ridiculous. And all that would be needed is one or two more employees, not even that many more.
@windebisnil5527 I guess? I'm asking honestly, I live in a pretty ethnically homogeneous area that has low crime and isn't wealthy, so I'm wondering why they don't lock things up at my local Walmart.
Work on the floor at Walmart and this is such a fuckin epidemic. my stor would understandably have some high ticket items behind glass or spider wrap but also lock things like car 2-3 dollar air fresheners and other minor items and there is only one person who has the key to three departments, so good luck if they go to lunch with nobody to cover them. I work in toys and they had put plexiglass cases for the e-scooters but I have to always ask for the key from hardware to open anything because management has not given a separate key yet. And this isn't even going into how every department now has one person stocking, zoning, and handling returns and customers in maybe 4-8 hour shifts. It sucks so much
I wouldn't be surprised if there was at least a small spike in theft when stores started understaffing along with the covid econ downturn, and the locks are a shitty attempt of curbing it. It's harder to steal when all the departments and aisles are being attended and staff aren't overburdened, but wtf do I know.
@fithianmt7468 well the thing is that they have security, both from AP and a third party (though they dont really do anything except when a theft does happen) But I mostly mean how they have made everyone's shopping experience much more worse? Need a toothbrush, ask an associate. Need baby formula, ask an associate. Need car freshener, ask an associate, all piled on with the regular daily duties done by an understaffed store for sometimes two departments at a time, and good luck if a customer can't find one and they have to go to the nearest intercom to radio it in and it still takes like ten minutes before anyone comes and I have to explain that it's all out of my control and they just have to wait. And in cases like CVS with lines wrapping around the store this system is clearly not working.
@ZeroDeMighty yea, I was building a pc over summer and stopped into Walmart to get some stuff and even a shitty usb stick on a hanger was locked, the elec staff were busy and I didn't wanna bother them. I know 15 dollar usb is only a microscopic drop in the bucket of their profits, but it's so insane just how shit retail has gotten since they have no reason to improve because they have no real competition or regulatory threat.
the prices at CVS are literally ridiculous. Its 10 dollars for a glucose monitor kit that works great on Amazon. Meanwhile that same monitor and test strips (because of course they dont sell a full kit) at CVS is over 50 dollars.
Hospital pharmacist life is better. We still deal with our own shit, but i would never go to retail. There's a reason retail pharmacists are paid more.
As someone who's had years of experience in the pharmacy field, it is bad and getting worse all the time. Pharmacists and techs are constantly getting barraged with automation, skeleton shifts, 12 hour shifts with only a 30 minute break, low pay, overworked, etc. They used to advertise scripts ready in as low as 15 minutes. Now the average is leaning towards two days if the robots can fill it. If your next question is the ratio of robot to pharmacists overwatching, it seems like a dagerous unbalence. There's been talks for years about moving the pharmacists to be pure remote from some office and have 1 per multiple stores watching cameras. They are the greatest costs.
"There's been talks for years about moving the pharmacists to be pure remote from some office and have 1 per multiple stores watching cameras. They are the greatest costs." Truly dystopian
Im so grateful that the university healthcare where i live had its own pharmacy group. Yea, the hours are more restricted, but the pharmacists are actually happy working there.
I was just thinking about how everything has been getting worse. Being born early 90s and growing up in the early 2000s it felt like every year we had wild leaps forward. The new i-WHATEVERPRODUCT felt like it deserved it and was actually a new improved product. Now new products just seem worse then the old model
2 years ago my insurance started to only cover prescriptions through cvs. I was happy going to my walgreens down the street now I have to go out of my way, and not only that, but cvs won't even stock my prescription. They want to give me a generic version of my birth control that I have a bad reaction too. So I have to go across town to the one cvs in the area that can order the right perception for me and half the time they fill it wrong anyway 😡
Restaurants and bars have gotten way worse. the amount of frozen, pre made shit being served at most restaurants right now is insane because cheapo owners or insane corpos don't wanna spend the on extra labour when our wages are dirt anyway (10+ years in the industry, i've seen it)
I went to cvs in Palm Springs today, absolutely horrible experience. It was so crowded, not enough staff. Couldn’t get someone to open up the locked shelves. Super long checkout line. Took me 45mins to get a few items
So many companies now. It's as though I were to own a hospital, insurance provider, funeral home chain and the cemetery for good measure. That's how fuckin conflicted all this shit is. Phenomenal.
@ineedapharmacist not really sure what correlation you're attempting to draw here. My impression, however, is that it sounds rather one dimensional. Feel it goes without saying, relegating one's self to some arbitrary standard some self important skibbidy beta condescendingly suggested on the internet is quite dumb by any metric. What's your point?
There seems to be one crisis or another going on in ALL the pharmacies. In just the past few years in my neighborhood, we lost the Rite Aid, the CVS, and the WinnDixie grocery store (whose pharmacy had a lot of customers). So all that is left is a Walgreens and obviously most of the customers from those other stores pooled into it, so trying to get your prescriptions is nightmarish beyond belief. If you want to call them, forget it, they just NE-VER answer. And they even keep several pharmacists and techs on staff most of the time, but there's only so many bodies that can be back there. I drive to further locations because I can, but this neighborhood is pretty 'mixed' class-wise, and I know a lot of the customers don't own vehicles.
My partner is a pharmacy tech at a large chain, they have impossible workloads, no time to restock things that never got picked up they just pile up, the number of people waiting regularly extends back to the entrance to the store. They allow customers to verbally abuse them, they only ban customers if they commit violence or have a huge temper tantrum. They routinely have to call the police too for people refusing to exit the drive thru.
When i worked in retail in a big clothing store we were ALWAYS short in people. Every weekend or big season where there were alot of costumers it was constant complaining from them about lines and too few employees but people in general simply dont understand why that is. The store and the company itself had a "zero lines" rule where they even calculated wait time by costumers and wanted us to do miracles as to not let lines grow too much or our "score" would get worse. The company had a "policy" that said that the managers had to "justify" the amount of workers there or they would cut even more from the staff board. So if for them 4 people were managing to do the work of 10 people it was just fine by them.
Ohh yeah, I experinced the score thing at Mcds. It was AWFUL especially when we HAD to pull people up, but there was only two of us in the whole building and late night rush that i wasn't even legally allowed to be there for since I was 15.5.
By the way, this has been going on for years, now. It is not just since the pandemic and it’s not only CVS, is retail in general. No retailer that is a corporation, is well staffed.
Out of curiosity I ran the numbers (from the CVS 2023 annual earnings) and their stores are making an average profit of $300,000 each. So if you added an extra pharmacist or two to every store, it would reduce the profit by up to 60%. Factor in the natural variance across stores and I can see how some stores literally couldn’t hire extra staff without being run at a loss. However, despite this being factually true, more than anything it shows that CVS aren’t running their business properly and that the economy is in a truly dire position if things have ended up like this.
So, as a Canadian when I go to Shoppers (our CVS/Walgreens) I've never had to wait longer than 45 minutes to have a prescription filled. And to be honest, I'm pretty frustrated if it takes 45 minutes. They give you those little beepers that tell you when your prescription is filled. I've never seen the shelves empty or messy, it's always clean. The funny thing is, Shoppers is a evil monopoly owned by a larger monopoly. People hate them here, this kinda puts things into perspective for me.
9:45 - Just because I don’t see it mentioned elsewhere. Pharmacist buys 30 capsules for 90 cents. Insurance pays pharmacist $1.20. You pay your insurance company a $15 co-pay. When it’s an independent pharmacy the profit is 30 cents. When it’s CVS/Aetna/Caremark, the profit is $14.10
I just saw this in my last employment. We had to make so much more money after the acquisition, in order to meet both our own costs and 15% to the corporation that had bought us. 15%! Our prices stopped being competitive, and it got hard to get new contracts
Walgreen took 3 weeks to fill my prescription. Even after making a corporate complaint and call from the lead pharmacists and it still didn't get filled. I had to move to Walmart. P.S. This was an auto fill prescription I only get once every 3 months.
My local CVS has been like this for years now. One, maybe two cashiers working, and multiple self checkouts. I dont use the pharmacy side of CVS hardly ever (i just go in to make quick purchases) but I'd imagine they're struggling too. its been something thats bothered me for a long time, and I had no idea this was the case on a company wide scale across the nation. truly sad
The apex of late stage capitalism is one person owning the entire economy and still constricting everything to maximize his profits
Erm, that's not illegal ☝️🤓
Its corporstions legal right to provide no service, no jobs, and maximum profit. Infact you are not entitled to services, but corporations are entitled to profits lost from government intervention.
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Dudes talking right and wrong troll
Liu Cixin wrote a novella about exactly that, where property rights are so enshrined that it becomes impossible for everyone else to revolt. It's an interesting thought experiment.
The consolidation of wealth during COVID made it very clear. It's also why societies are reflexively moving right. They're just blaming the wrong/easy targets.
I was on a medication for months. Went to pick up my refill and my insurance had denied it so it was going to cost me $250. I called my insurance company and was told that I had to get it at Walgreens. The nearest Walgreens was over 20 miles away, instead of 5 minutes from my local pharmacy, but I also had to call my doctor and have them move my prescription.
I was also pissed because they didn't even inform me that they were going to suddenly no longer cover my prescription at ny pharmacy. They just stopped without warning.
The US healthcare system exists to kill you. Brian Thompson killed way more people than whoever killed him.
Luigi acted in mutual defense. ✊
@serversurfer6169 allegedly*
When I used to work at CVS over 20 years ago, me and my coworkers always joked that CVS stands for Come Visit Slaves.
Corporations under capitalism exists to make ever increasing profits and if their services/products are worse or better quality they just don't care.
They dgaf about you dying or getting better, they only care about how much money they can make off of you. Absolutely inhumane.
The healthcare system needs more alleged Luigis
My favorite part of this system is that when it inevitably collapses, the government will prop up its corpse as long as possible with our tax dollars. Workers ALWAYS lose under capitalism.
Not always. Only when greed takes over and capitalism turns it into corporatism.
@@EddieRod corporatism IS capitalism. its the last stage of capitalism before it mutates into oligarchy. its a FEATURE. not a bug. which is why capitalism is bad.
When capitalism is managed this poorly and unfavorably for the masses then yeah..
@@Skywatcher16 I mean... this should be the whole reason we have a government. But they're just in on it.
Cope losers. God bless the free market. In rich people towns there is no plexiglass
CVS would rather open up like 10 stores within a 3 mile radius than hire enough people (or pay them enough) for 1 store to function properly.
Just like Dollar General
It's called market capture. They'll close nine of those stores after they drive all of the locals out of business. 😣
SHITIFICATION - is the new way of doing business.
I know that's what they do in a lot of places, but for some reason the CVS near downtown Mobile (where I live) suddenly closed down a couple years ago, despite being the only pharmacy in quite a large radius. I still don't know why that happened.
Open up your own CVS, comrade
Every company is doing this. They all say, "Sorry, we went over hours; we're gonna have to cut." And they're already understaffing every store with record profits. It's time to start unions, no matter what!
Um! After caluclating for 50 million dollars profit and all our shareholder dividends, we can't afford more employees. Or benifits. Or raises.
If labor went above 10%, think about the poor do-nothings who won't get 90% return on investment?
It's time for everyone to quit that store
We lost that game. Unions were tried. Abe Lincoln was pushing hard for Unions in 1860.
@@beng4647Unions were tried and they worked. Time to try again
Yeah I literally got fired today. I was literally the top performer, with a future in management and got kicked out because…? Got served an email at 6.
"They're just sitting around, with infinite money."
And that allows them to buy shares of _everything,_ so they get paid no matter what we buy. Coke and Pepsi don't compete with each other, *because they're both owned by **_the same_** shareholders.* 🤨
Unboycottable
I bought stock in Verizon and Wallgreens a while back as a way to offset their upcharging and get some of my money back from them through the dividends. I started following news about their financials and one thing that baffled me was how people would stomp their feet and complain about flat customer growth in market segments like cell phone plans or total medicine purchases while citing sales data from decades ago, demanding a repeat of that growth. Some of these financial guys are so dumb that they really do believe in infinite growth and would kill a golden goose only to complain about the lack of eggs
I fully admit that economics is one of those subjects that I have a hard time grasping past the basics. But isn't infinite, unchecked growth basically how cancer works?
@@TheybyBaby-c9m It is! Until it kills the host anyway
this is why you don't let companies get this big
True
This is why owning companies you don't work in should be illegal.
This is why you don't let companies. 😜
Size isn't an issue, what is being laid out here is fundamentally just an issue with how capitalism functions.
This is actually why you don’t structure your entire economic system around the pursuit of infinite exponential growth
I used to be a pharmacy technician at many Walgreens along the Gulf Coast. We went days without power due to hurricanes frequently. It’s so humid and the lack of refrigeration causes obvious discoloration and physical changes in the meds (which can alter the drugs - literally says to maintain a specific humidity and temperature for many drugs). We weren’t allowed to get rid of these drugs. We had to give them out. There was always a lack of staff and an insane amount of tasks and I’d be the only one actively working on the tasks. We literally had a coworker that was talking about a civil war and arming herself at work leading up to the election. I wore a mask and would get cursed out and reported weekly by middle aged bald men coming to pick up their erectile dysfunction meds. Why wear a mask? Rebecka would literally come up to the counter with open wounds bleeding onto the counter or nonstop coughing everywhere and wiping their noses with their hands. I would just routinely clean blood and mucous from the counters and was handed money covered in bodily fluids. There was a lot of talks about the company losing lawsuits and about many locations closing before I left.
Great post. I'm ashamed how hard I laughed. I know the GC tho, so I can see exactly what you're describing. Sublime.
Jesus...
First day as a tech, typical Rebekah comes in for Paxolvid (=has Covid) with her nose sticking out of her mask and she's hard of hearing. She leans in to hear better, then literally 6 inches from face pulls down her mask (idk why) and before she can talk has this massive sneeze all over my face. I was kind until the pharmacist chewed her out for being irresponsible to us. Another deplorable dck-bag, total dead weight on America.
I used to work at a Walgreens in Fort Myers, Florida. Just an average cashier but sometimes I had to go to the pharmacy dept. to help out. Wouldn't have been so bad but every 3rd prescription had an insurance issue I couldn't handle and the pharmacist was obnoxious constantly. I came this close )( to telling the manager "No, I don't want to work with her." This was over 20 years ago but I'm still sore about it.
I used to work at a CVS before the pandemic. I was a pharmacy tech. This was before Covid, so I got away with wearing a mask before it was politicized.
Have nothing good to say about CVS but it truly shocks me how dumb the people coming in could be. We were clearly all over worked and understaffed. Someone would come in, see me running two registers at 7 in the morning to drop off a script, then would come back at 5 pm see me still running two registers and scream about me about how slow we all were working.
I never took my scheduled breaks, there was never time. I developed a UTI.
So many stories about this place I don't even know where to begin.
certain things NEED to be socialized and removed from capitalism!
@@Llkc60 Because they are heavily regulated which is not really that different to socializing them. In Germany for example while technically private businesses basically every aspect of how they can be run is specified in law. There are also significant restrictions on who can even own them. There aren't any large corporations like this. Yes this is a completely different system and yes it matters.
@@XMysticHerox what does socializing mean? this is a fabrication of the american psyche. there is heavy regulation of pharmacies in the United States as well. Yes, the difference is that there is less market concentration and more regulation. we have laws against making people work unpaid overtime. The situation described in this video can only happen in highly oligopolistic/monopolistic market. it is not a market failure, unregulated capitalism naturally leads to such structures (see Marx). Yet Europe stands as an example that capitalism can work in a different more humane way. Thus my argument stands that it's the people running the system and the people consuming in this system not being able to do anything to change the rules governing corporations. it's a failure of democracy and a sign that your way of capitalism delivers worse outcomes than our model.
Everything needs to be socialized. There is no valid reason to let private capital interests do anything.
@@KhalkaraI mean I’m alright with there being like 50 types of mustard and all that jazz but obviously they should be produced by worker owned co-ops
@@MsScarletwings You shouldn't. There's no need for 50 "types" of mustard, which in reality are just the same mustard with a different label slapped on to it.
And if mustard production is socialized, there's also no need for co-ops. That would just be a step backwards.
I LOVE PRIVATE COMPANIES, I LOVE THE FOR PROFIT ECONOMY, I LOVE PRICES NEVER LOWERING!!
No socialist nation in all of human history ever lowered a price. In contrast the CPI has literally fallen (prices across the board have dropped) over last year.................... But I mean those are just numbers: I'm sure you're subjective opinion on price trends is more accurate.
@@ASDeckard No socialist nation in all of human history
your* btw
@@ASDeckardCitation needed.
I love your sarcasm.
@@ASDeckard [citation needed]
A nice reminder that it is not the fault of the pharmacists. They're doing their best in shitty conditions. No one in that building could've done that.
My mom works in the lower half of upper management at CVS/Aetna.
After several rounds of layoffs, they just recently gave her a budget from corporate management for this year with onlly half (at best) the amount of money it takes to fund her teams, who are already overloaded and working well over 40 hours a week. She has to send back a report balancing that budget with details of the labor cost of each employee so they can decide who to layoff again.
They didnt care nor ask what was needed to actually maintain profitability or accomplish their goals before drafting the budget. It was all just decided blindly by the shareholders, and they expect the employees to just make it happen magically. It's a classic shitshow example of investor run businessing.
Plus about half their mid-management and developers are now overseas hires from India because they want to get cheaper labor and employees they can coerce into working 20 hours of overtime per week. (not exaggerating)
Should be nationalized. The entire pharmacy industry from lab to cashier.
Every time I hear anything to do with drugs or healthcare in the US, it's like "if you're making $100k or more a year you're fine, otherwise you die". It's legitimately worse than most developing countries, where you just get your meds or health service and go about your day. Not to speak of first-world nations
It seems in other countries you get basics of life and higher cost of commodities. But we get cheap commodities and no living.
@@JohnDoe-kp5dm not even cheap commodities anymore. We are so screwed
@@JohnDoe-kp5dm insulin is genuinely free for diabetics here in Sweden. Just because you were born with shitty genes shouldn't mean a life ruining subscription service to living.
Edit. Literally enter any single pharmacy tell them you're a diabetic, they'll check your journal and issue insulin. The journal system is centralized away from corporations.
My sister makes $140k, unfortunately she lives in Portland, Oregon and got long COVID. She's draining her savings to pay for healthcare, and since long COVID is so new and treatment are just being pioneered, she's spending all that money for little to no relief.
$100k a year isn’t even middle class, anymore.
I think the most disgusting part is the security cameras. Most cvs stores have security cameras all over the staff, but the ones on the sales floor dont work and theres almost never cameras in the parking lot. They dont care if customers steal or assault staff, but they make sure they keep a very close eye on employees. Its sad af.
My aunt has been working for CVS MinuteClinic for almost a decade and managed COVID testing for Florida for CVS for a good part of the pandemic, and it has gotten so much worse the past few years. All the voices at the top are business majors, not nurses. They really are driving people to the edge for a tiny bit more peofit.
Minute clinics are less than 5 years old, just saying
@@timstram damn so they wasted no time ruining that too. They went on a Speedrun for ruining their decent MinuteClinic idea
@Hayden_Lummus yeah, I kno someone gonna call me out on the age so technically it's been around over 20 years but CVS bought it in 2006, renamed it and opened the first ones inside a CVS location less than 5 years ago. So yeah, they took a working model and ruined it in less than 5 years.
@@timstramMinuteClinic has been inside CVS since at least 2012 according to some quick googling.
@@timstram CVS had Minute clinics in 600 locations in 2012. Feel free to Google it
Vampires sucking the blood of a dead corps.
I overheard an older pharmacist talking to a new pharmacist during my time at Walgreens: “If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t working fast enough.”
Heck, I could be the fastest brain surgeon in the world if that's the case!
@@whodey2112time to go to medical school
America is a lesson to countries that still have functioning governments -
Argentina?
There aren't any. The closest is Russia and that's incredible.
They took the wrong lesson. We became an example, not a warning.
@@thewhitefalcon8539as russian, no, our government is not functioning
@@supercelllover7695 russia is closer to functioning than any western government
This reminds me of a memo that leaked out of a Canning Company, they were mandating shifting away from canning corn, peas, etc...to things like leeks etc...because the average consumer couldn't afford to purchase the cheaper products enough to justify canning them and they would make more money canning more luxury items that sell for more individually.
This was around 2017-18
I used to work at CVS but I quit because my store was horribly understaffed. Everyone knew it, our pharmacists complained to corporate but were essentially told to pound sand, I briefly discussed some sort of worker action with some of my colleagues and while some of them were sympathetic ultimately the store pharmacists shut it down because they were terrified of corporate because they all had massive student loans from college and could not afford to risk their jobs. I understood but I was fed up so I quit, best decision I ever made. I got a job at the local hospital and was much better off because it is essentially community run and a great place to work. Just 2 months after I got a job there my lead pharmacist from my former CVS got a job at the Hospital pharmacy as well, and we both talked about how much better we were off. That said my Hospital job is somewhat at risk too as because it is community run it is not profitable and runs at a loss, it only survives because of state funding, if that ever dries up ...
It's coming. Funding public hospitals that aren't turning a profit sounds like a job for Elon and DOGE to clean up! MAGA
Why focus on the negatives? Think about the positives like all the profits being sucked out at the top for the billionaire class? They can buy bigger yachts now, or private armies to fight off the pitchfork-wielding Luigis.
Just today I had an experience where I applied to an open position in my local CVS that they had open for the last few months looking for someone, and instead of accepting any applications, they closed the opening because "CVS has decided to not fill this position."
I used to work at and my parents still do at a pharmacy--that was formerly a family owned business and is now owned by a chain--that is set to go out of business by the end of the year, and it's mostly because the corporate management has slowly gutted the store of everything that made it money while barely giving it enough to stay afloat in the interest of maximizing their profit margins. The final nail in the coffin was ironically getting rid of the alcohol, tobacco, lotto, etc in the front of the store that made most of its money. That change made the difference of having rushes and regular lines to DEAD; multiple hours without customers. I guess they don't call us Beer City for nothing lol
I work at cvs as a pharmacy technician and i can confirm all of this. We are getting busier and getting less hours. Every time one of our workers leaves, our hours get cut so we cannot hire more help. We are leaving at the end of the day with hundreds of prescriptions overdue for the day, and coming in the next day the systems incentivize you to work on the prescriptions that are coming in rather than the ones that are already overdue because "if it is already late then it doesnt look bad on our "numbers" if they stay red, but it does look bad if more go red" so our system is designed to keep late prescriptions late. this includes antibiotics, insulin, antivirals, etc.
We need to make dividend investing cool again. Jesus. That at least made sense. You didnt count on increased growth, you bought good company, and built a portfolio of companies that paid you a portion of their profits.
It's more than that. It's also the fact that providing a better service takes actual effort and money. The strategy of not hiring workers is easier. That's the race to to bottom that infects all capitalistic endeavors
this same thing is happening to my local Riteaid which is a major pharmacy chain. long lines, no workers, stores a mess, elderly people worried about the prescriptions. enshitification of America, all to make that line go up for the few. Economic Terrorism being committed against our own citizens.
This is so interesting to me - this winter I had a trip to Italy as part of my work benefits, and when I tell you there was a pharmacy around every single corner? It was actually insane in Florence and Venice the way I couldn't turn down a street without seeing a new pharmacy. How do we function without that? It made life INSANELY BETTER for just a week the way I could always find something I needed
Americans can’t fathom walking down a street and seeing a grocery store, coffee shop, clothes, bakery, restaurant and pharmacy and if any of these things are missing there’s sure to be a few the next street over. Love driving (not walking) half an hour to the nearest store despite living in the center of town
In russia we have a pharmacy is almost every house, sometimes even two or three, lol. Probably because our pensioners love shopping for medication
@supercelllover7695 By "Russia" do you mean Moscow and St. Petersburg?
I use a local pharmacy always. My meds would be free if I went to chains but I pay full price (about $80 a month) to support them and make sure I get good service. I make about 50k/year.
My Mom is a retired RN, she supported our local pharmacy for as long as she could for the very same reasons. However it became really difficult.
I got a job as a shift manager at CVS for about three months and it was a nightmare. I've never worked somewhere so poorly run and staffed before. It was demoralizing.
The UK ain’t perfect but at least our pharmacies are funded partially by the NHS. I’ve had to wait 2-3 days for a prescription, not a whole ass month. Wish I could send you guys free healthcare.
They locked up deodorant….I don’t want to ring a bell wait 7 minutes for some poor worker to come unlock the glass door. We are so fuuuked
Why is it locked in the first place?
@@ineedapharmacistTheft. Some people are poor and can't afford medicine or you've given up on society and you steal s*** to sell on the black market.
I remember doing module training for CVS in 2022. On one of the slides, there’s a goal for patients to pick up their autofill prescriptions, and that’s where they make most of their money. I was appalled. I had to quit no notice because I got scheduled 5 hrs a week consistently and I was new. YES, they want us to stay sick so they can get more money.
They took the pandemic as an excuse to treat their customers like children, or even criminals.
Front store cvs employee here: the lock cases are because of resale theft, people come in and take all the Dove body wash stock, and we have to beg them to get them installed.
in a sane world More Perfect Union would have more subs than Ben Shapiro or Tim Pool
I'm glad they've sold all locations here in PR to local pharmacies. They actually employ people, and the profits aren't sent to Delaware or some other state.
My insurance only pays for prescriptions if I go to CVS. I refuse to go to CVS. I've been paying out-of-pocket for prescriptions at my local pharmacy for years now. CVS and my insurance company may be conspiring to put my pharmacy out of business, but I'm certainly not going to help them do it.
I worked at an ACE hardware back home and it was great. I started working at one here by my college and it was so shortstaffed i quit out of frustrstion. That and they paid super horribly. There were days where there were only three of us: a cashier, a manager, and floor person (help customers and stock shit). This was while we were selling Christmas trees, meaning that if somebody bought one the store would go down to just two workers while either the manger or i went out and handled that. It was horrible.
I hope you do more of these reacts to More Perfect Union videos. I learn so much from them and your commentary expands on that learning. Thank you.
Second Thought is another good one worth taking a look at.
@@ozzybloke4830
The Deprogram is also a good podcast/ TH-cam channel with the Second Thought guy, Yugopnik, and Hakim (two other pretty good you-tubers).
Second Thought/ More Perfect Union seem more geared towards being an entry point for liberals and normies.
The hiring policy of the traditional pharmacy chains (CVS, Walgreens, etc) for a was to hire at offensively low wages to new grads who need to take something to pay their loans. Eventually the class size of pharmacy schools plummeted due to poor prospects and now there's a massive shortage of pharmacists (as well as other healthcare workers). The chain pharmacies can't rely on desperation from new grads anymore as there aren't enough to staff all the stores and the pharmacists have the leverage in the labor market so now these stores are heavily understaffed and often close early on weekdays and weekends or close down altogether.
It's hilarious for those companies but sucks for the civilians who need their medication who can't even transfer to another store because there's no staff to make the phone call.
Ex cvs pharmacy tech here, i only lasted about a year and a half. Understaffed, cut hours, low pay, on top of the daily and weekly tasks that needed to completed in a certain amount of time, covid testing, data filing, etc
My location closed just last year.
How much was the pay, if you don’t mind me asking?
@ it was $16.00 when I started. About three months in, i got a performance review done and they dumped up my pay to $16.75.
The guilt I feel as I stand with tears in my eyes giving 10,000 sorries to the CVS employee unlocking the fake lashes for me... they have so many things to juggle it's INSANE😭the staff may as well only let 3 customers in at a time because if you need more than 1 thing you're likely gonna be waving them down for keys constantly.
We’re making profits! Now, if we could just lay off a few more employees, and cut down on those hours, we could make 2% higher record for our profits 🤩
I used to be a Walgreens pharmacy tech. We were constantly understaffed. We would on a daily basis be about 100 To 200 prescriptions behind. It was insane. I was expected to do the multitude of daily tasks to maintain the pharmacy and assist the customers at the register while also typing, reviewing and filling their prescription all at the same time with a line of customers waiting in store and in drive through.
Sounds like the CVS I worked at 20 years ago. The photo lab was supposed to be open 12 hours a day and have a specially trained full-time manager. I was the only person in the lab, they worked me 39.9 hours a week, and expected me to do the manager work with no training.
One part of the supply chain buying another part of the supply chain should genuinely be illegal
"This will be fixed once Trump secures the border!"
The cvs near me is terrible empty shelves, not that many workers. As much as I hate buying online its frustrating how much the stores are being rundown by dumb corporate interests.
I hope people figure out that profit is a direct conflict of interest when it comes to healthcare.
Cory Doctorow calls it “enshittification”.
Every company is hiring less than as few employees as they can get away with and its making everyone's experience worse.
I can't stand dealing with unlocking standard groceries, i stopped shopping at walgreens for the same reason and the store went defunct.
Maybe if a single thing of deodorant didn’t cost 5-12 dollars people wouldn’t be stealing them so much, they have to raise prices to make back the profits lost in theft but the higher prices go up the more theft there will be.
EXPECTED OUTCOME of unregulated Capitalism.
PBMs are insane. The same parent company owns the Health Insurance, the PBM, and the Pharmacy. When you really look into it, it's just extremely blatant anti-competitive monopolist stuff.
I worked there for a week and quit due to illegal shit and I plan on filing an EEOC complaint next week for hostile work environment.
CVS makes all that money because they don’t spend on payroll. They expect the front store to be run with just two employees. That makes the cashier responsible for manning the self checkouts, the actual register, the processing of photos and photo products, that need to be put together. They also need to fill online orders, while the other employee, a manager is performing many more tasks to maintain the store in stock levels, prices, ordering, receiving vendors, etc…. Trust me, it is ridiculous. And all that would be needed is one or two more employees, not even that many more.
It's CRAZY, if you live in a low crime area nothing is locked up. Also in these low crime areas there aren't staffing issues, why is that?
Vaush doesn't want to talk about the black elephant in the room.
Money?
@windebisnil5527 I guess? I'm asking honestly, I live in a pretty ethnically homogeneous area that has low crime and isn't wealthy, so I'm wondering why they don't lock things up at my local Walmart.
Work on the floor at Walmart and this is such a fuckin epidemic. my stor would understandably have some high ticket items behind glass or spider wrap but also lock things like car 2-3 dollar air fresheners and other minor items and there is only one person who has the key to three departments, so good luck if they go to lunch with nobody to cover them. I work in toys and they had put plexiglass cases for the e-scooters but I have to always ask for the key from hardware to open anything because management has not given a separate key yet. And this isn't even going into how every department now has one person stocking, zoning, and handling returns and customers in maybe 4-8 hour shifts. It sucks so much
I wouldn't be surprised if there was at least a small spike in theft when stores started understaffing along with the covid econ downturn, and the locks are a shitty attempt of curbing it. It's harder to steal when all the departments and aisles are being attended and staff aren't overburdened, but wtf do I know.
@fithianmt7468 well the thing is that they have security, both from AP and a third party (though they dont really do anything except when a theft does happen) But I mostly mean how they have made everyone's shopping experience much more worse? Need a toothbrush, ask an associate. Need baby formula, ask an associate. Need car freshener, ask an associate, all piled on with the regular daily duties done by an understaffed store for sometimes two departments at a time, and good luck if a customer can't find one and they have to go to the nearest intercom to radio it in and it still takes like ten minutes before anyone comes and I have to explain that it's all out of my control and they just have to wait. And in cases like CVS with lines wrapping around the store this system is clearly not working.
@ZeroDeMighty yea, I was building a pc over summer and stopped into Walmart to get some stuff and even a shitty usb stick on a hanger was locked, the elec staff were busy and I didn't wanna bother them. I know 15 dollar usb is only a microscopic drop in the bucket of their profits, but it's so insane just how shit retail has gotten since they have no reason to improve because they have no real competition or regulatory threat.
the prices at CVS are literally ridiculous. Its 10 dollars for a glucose monitor kit that works great on Amazon. Meanwhile that same monitor and test strips (because of course they dont sell a full kit) at CVS is over 50 dollars.
Younger generations need to start unionization if anything is gonna change.
It´s impressive how the whole of this dynamic has been described in detail by Lenin, in 1914, and YET HERE WE ARE REPEATING THE SAME CYCLE.
Solution: Tesla bots.
I used to think pharmacist was a damn good job. I mean I still do. The machine grinds them down too. What a world.
Hospital pharmacist life is better. We still deal with our own shit, but i would never go to retail. There's a reason retail pharmacists are paid more.
Private equity truly is the enemy of humanity.
As someone who's had years of experience in the pharmacy field, it is bad and getting worse all the time.
Pharmacists and techs are constantly getting barraged with automation, skeleton shifts, 12 hour shifts with only a 30 minute break, low pay, overworked, etc. They used to advertise scripts ready in as low as 15 minutes. Now the average is leaning towards two days if the robots can fill it. If your next question is the ratio of robot to pharmacists overwatching, it seems like a dagerous unbalence.
There's been talks for years about moving the pharmacists to be pure remote from some office and have 1 per multiple stores watching cameras. They are the greatest costs.
"There's been talks for years about moving the pharmacists to be pure remote from some office and have 1 per multiple stores watching cameras. They are the greatest costs."
Truly dystopian
Remember to tip your local pharmacist, I guess.
Thanks vaush, this one connected alot of dots for me
Im so grateful that the university healthcare where i live had its own pharmacy group. Yea, the hours are more restricted, but the pharmacists are actually happy working there.
I was just thinking about how everything has been getting worse. Being born early 90s and growing up in the early 2000s it felt like every year we had wild leaps forward. The new i-WHATEVERPRODUCT felt like it deserved it and was actually a new improved product. Now new products just seem worse then the old model
I'm on the West Coast. Fingers crossed for Cascadia.
2 years ago my insurance started to only cover prescriptions through cvs. I was happy going to my walgreens down the street now I have to go out of my way, and not only that, but cvs won't even stock my prescription. They want to give me a generic version of my birth control that I have a bad reaction too. So I have to go across town to the one cvs in the area that can order the right perception for me and half the time they fill it wrong anyway 😡
I live in a large west coast city. Finding a halfway decent pharmacy that takes my insurance is difficult with a car, never mind with public transit.
Corporations refuse to hire workers and the public keeps stealing…..
As a pharmacy tech, yeah we're fucking drowning in work
Restaurants and bars have gotten way worse. the amount of frozen, pre made shit being served at most restaurants right now is insane because cheapo owners or insane corpos don't wanna spend the on extra labour when our wages are dirt anyway (10+ years in the industry, i've seen it)
100% I've given up on going out to corporately owned restaurants, fast food, bars, and coffee shops.
@k3n0ju unfortunately a lot of small businesses are just as guilty.
@@GordonSlamsay yes very true.
I went to cvs in Palm Springs today, absolutely horrible experience. It was so crowded, not enough staff. Couldn’t get someone to open up the locked shelves. Super long checkout line. Took me 45mins to get a few items
So many companies now. It's as though I were to own a hospital, insurance provider, funeral home chain and the cemetery for good measure. That's how fuckin conflicted all this shit is. Phenomenal.
Pick a struggle mate either islam or leftism.
@ineedapharmacist not really sure what correlation you're attempting to draw here. My impression, however, is that it sounds rather one dimensional. Feel it goes without saying, relegating one's self to some arbitrary standard some self important skibbidy beta condescendingly suggested on the internet is quite dumb by any metric. What's your point?
what a F-ed up cycle
Dividends. They can pay dividends.
The CVS shown at 2:14 looks like its the one in Downtown Silver Spring, MD. That one is so unbelievably understaffed its vrazy
There seems to be one crisis or another going on in ALL the pharmacies. In just the past few years in my neighborhood, we lost the Rite Aid, the CVS, and the WinnDixie grocery store (whose pharmacy had a lot of customers). So all that is left is a Walgreens and obviously most of the customers from those other stores pooled into it, so trying to get your prescriptions is nightmarish beyond belief. If you want to call them, forget it, they just NE-VER answer. And they even keep several pharmacists and techs on staff most of the time, but there's only so many bodies that can be back there. I drive to further locations because I can, but this neighborhood is pretty 'mixed' class-wise, and I know a lot of the customers don't own vehicles.
My partner is a pharmacy tech at a large chain, they have impossible workloads, no time to restock things that never got picked up they just pile up, the number of people waiting regularly extends back to the entrance to the store. They allow customers to verbally abuse them, they only ban customers if they commit violence or have a huge temper tantrum. They routinely have to call the police too for people refusing to exit the drive thru.
When i worked in retail in a big clothing store we were ALWAYS short in people. Every weekend or big season where there were alot of costumers it was constant complaining from them about lines and too few employees but people in general simply dont understand why that is. The store and the company itself had a "zero lines" rule where they even calculated wait time by costumers and wanted us to do miracles as to not let lines grow too much or our "score" would get worse.
The company had a "policy" that said that the managers had to "justify" the amount of workers there or they would cut even more from the staff board. So if for them 4 people were managing to do the work of 10 people it was just fine by them.
Ohh yeah, I experinced the score thing at Mcds. It was AWFUL especially when we HAD to pull people up, but there was only two of us in the whole building and late night rush that i wasn't even legally allowed to be there for since I was 15.5.
By the way, this has been going on for years, now. It is not just since the pandemic and it’s not only CVS, is retail in general. No retailer that is a corporation, is well staffed.
Out of curiosity I ran the numbers (from the CVS 2023 annual earnings) and their stores are making an average profit of $300,000 each. So if you added an extra pharmacist or two to every store, it would reduce the profit by up to 60%. Factor in the natural variance across stores and I can see how some stores literally couldn’t hire extra staff without being run at a loss.
However, despite this being factually true, more than anything it shows that CVS aren’t running their business properly and that the economy is in a truly dire position if things have ended up like this.
I work in a relatively small business that only has four locations and the same things are happening
So, as a Canadian when I go to Shoppers (our CVS/Walgreens) I've never had to wait longer than 45 minutes to have a prescription filled. And to be honest, I'm pretty frustrated if it takes 45 minutes. They give you those little beepers that tell you when your prescription is filled. I've never seen the shelves empty or messy, it's always clean. The funny thing is, Shoppers is a evil monopoly owned by a larger monopoly. People hate them here, this kinda puts things into perspective for me.
As a canadian I agree...
9:45 - Just because I don’t see it mentioned elsewhere.
Pharmacist buys 30 capsules for 90 cents. Insurance pays pharmacist $1.20. You pay your insurance company a $15 co-pay.
When it’s an independent pharmacy the profit is 30 cents. When it’s CVS/Aetna/Caremark, the profit is $14.10
Love seeing a crossover between two channels I watch.
I just saw this in my last employment. We had to make so much more money after the acquisition, in order to meet both our own costs and 15% to the corporation that had bought us. 15%! Our prices stopped being competitive, and it got hard to get new contracts
Why "topic" sucks now, *clicks video* Trump is the first thing that shows up lmao
“Why are all these stations talking about how the Great Depression is ruining everything? It’s just stocks it doesn’t affect everything else”
I know it's not talked about in this video but Pharmacy Technicians in these retail Pharmacies are also paid like crap.
The cvs near the place i lived in US had their fridge broken sometime in 2021. It was still broken when i left in december.
Unfettered capitalism and unregulated hedge funds, this is america.
Walgreen took 3 weeks to fill my prescription. Even after making a corporate complaint and call from the lead pharmacists and it still didn't get filled. I had to move to Walmart. P.S. This was an auto fill prescription I only get once every 3 months.
My local CVS has been like this for years now. One, maybe two cashiers working, and multiple self checkouts. I dont use the pharmacy side of CVS hardly ever (i just go in to make quick purchases) but I'd imagine they're struggling too. its been something thats bothered me for a long time, and I had no idea this was the case on a company wide scale across the nation. truly sad