'Pharmageddon' hits U.S. with walkouts at multiple pharmacies, including CVS and Walgreens

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Pharmacists protesting deteriorating working conditions inside the nation’s largest retail chains have launched their third and largest walkout of the season with a three-day movement they have dubbed "Pharmageddon."

Organizers estimated the effort has drawn as many as 4,500 pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from multiple chains, including CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens. It also drew support from the American Pharmacists Association, the industry’s largest professional organization, which said in a statement that it stands with every participant of the movement.

Representatives from all three companies, however, told USA TODAY they are experiencing zero to minimal disruptions as a result of the effort.

It is the latest walkout to hit the troubled industry this autumn. The first closed more than a dozen CVS pharmacies in the Kansas City area in September. The second affected roughly the same number of Walgreens stores from coast to coast in early October.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/pharmageddon-hits-u-s-with-walkouts-at-multiple-pharmacies-including-cvs-and-walgreens/ar-AA1j6UoH

[MOMFUDSKI]

1. Take your power wherever

you find it.

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2. Can't imagine why Pharmacists would be fed up

Considering most of these pharmacy brands have done a good job of pointing out all of the many, many services they can provide under one roof how can we be surprised? Many of these places have become a refuge for those in need. AND it's overwhelming. These large pharmacies are often open much later. Finding someone in the medical profession to talk to you at 9pm or even midnight doesn't happen anywhere else but the emergency room. The hours are long, staffing shortages are real, and no one ever gets caught up on the orders coming in. In addition, increasing numbers of people that are homeless or near homeless look to the neighborhood pharmacy for everything.

Until companies decide that increasing dividends for investors is not the #1 goal, this doesn't change in any industry.

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4. Welcome to DU!

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5. +1 Luv it

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3. This is playing with fire- The chain pharmacies dominate

People can die without their prescriptions