https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/why_are_thousands_of_pharmacies_closing.html
Why are Thousands of Pharmacies Closing?
American Thinker, by James Stansbury
Posted By: DW626, 1/26/2024 5:32:35 AM
About five years ago the only pharmacy in my small town in rural Virginia closed. A year or so later a second county drugstore failed. Soon the owner of the last remaining drugstore in the county was unable to make a profit and had to sell. (These last two managed to reopen at a later date.) I was unaware the loss of our drugstores was a nationwide trend until reading an article by Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. She reported that mom-and-pop drugstores in rural areas were particularly hard hit, leaving about 630 rural communities with no pharmacy by 2018.
Here's a hint. They just killed 17 million people.
There's that. Also note the downturn started after Trump was elected. The pharmacy chains were sure Killary would get in and drug sales would continue to climb, if not skyrocket. President Trump was not part of their long-term business plan.
They never thought she would lose
Trump made insulin so cheap. I dont know how that worked but it must have cut the insurance part out that was driving up the price and the consumer was getting a super fair price.
Also, there's been a continuous trend to automate the medicine dispensation machine. The liability that pharmacists have is immense, and mistakes still happen.
Amazon and CVS (IIRC, or another pharmacy) have been partnering to use algorithmic pharmacists. With Artificial Intelligence, I have no doubt that this trend is accelerating. I take great pity on people in pharmacy school, who sought it as a "last refuge" career in the modern economy.
When Walgreens wouldn't fill ivermectin prescription in 2020 we went to small pharmacy and they filled it. As with everything we've learned, they can't control small businesses so their bankrupting them instead.
That's a shame. I did not know that. Thanks for the info. Probably people are going to the big chains like CVS and Walgreens, or even their local Walmart or Grocery store. Personally, I would prefer the small, independent pharmacy.
Because big Pharma is putting them out of business. I saw a show about this the other day, but I can’t remember how it all went. But it’s all done diabolically. Anybody who is a mom and pop pharmacy shop, it’s being shut down so they can just use your CVS, Walgreens, etc. That way they can control the flow of medicines.
Although most pharmaceuticals, our garbage, there are a few that are actually necessary and helpful for people. Insulin being one of them. I get a lot of my prescriptions from a compound pharmacy but I pay cash for them. Compound pharmacies are the way to go. If you can’t find something that you want at a regular pharmacy, or if you can’t get your ivermectin from Wallgreens, you can definitely get it from a compound pharmacy as long as your doctor prescribed it for you. It is more expensive though, but that’s the whole point. Compound pharmacies don’t use insurance at all. You have to pay cash.
There’s a person who decides which drugs should be a tier, 1, tier 2, or tier 3. The higher the tier, the lower, the profit is for the person who decides what tier it is. It’s just a whole Nother psyop and another way for somebody to make money off of the people. The reason tier 3 or four medicines cost so much, it’s because the pharmaceutical companies, and that in between person, which I can’t remember what their title is, it doesn’t make as much money. That’s why we have to pay more. It’s insidious.
Sorry, I’m not being more clear but my brain is not working well these days, but that’s what I remember hearing.
Thanks for the info
I really wish I could remember the show, but I think it was Joe Rogan, and the guy that was on there used to work for this pharmaceutical industry. He has his own private compound pharmacy and that’s how he’s able to stay afloat. But yes, they’re trying to shut down all the mom and Pop pharmacies. I think what was happening is once they filled the prescriptions, they weren’t getting reimbursed by the pharmaceutical companies or whoever it was for 3 to 6 months. I mean who can keep up financials like that, with pharmaceuticals, no one….
Easy, you can't sue anyone who is out of business. Bankruptcy protection. Do it now before the victims can get all that beautiful big pharma cash incentive jab, jab money. Lawfare, make the victims wait and they just die off. Too, bad so sad.
One of two in our area just closed. Plus the private doctors' offices have closed, several years ago. We have very few options for pharmacies and doctors and they are all corporate.
Because rural people are smart. Not like PROGRAMMING from Hollywood portrays. You can order online without getting hassled to take a vax.
Krony Kapatilsim.
CVS I've been getting my prescriptions from set me a message about two months ago that it was shutting down I moved to a different CVS close by but when I picked it up one of the pharmacists that was there - a lady from India - when I asked her she said this:
Yes they didnt even tell us. They made all this money from the pfizer shots and now that they arent anymore they are closing down.
DIR fees and PBM’s have driven many independent pharmacists out of business.
There's open war on small businesses.
Nobody wants that shit any more than theyy want bud light
Covid fuckery combined with opioid fallout probably. Writing on the wall
Big retail is having to close stores in urban areas. These stores were probably the profit centers that allowed lower margin small town stores to exist. You can thank the dems for the closure of these stores. Crime in blue cities are killing stores in small town America.