Prescription transfer gift cards

[Cruise]

I live in Michigan and the pharmacies around us do them...it's not illegal. Annoying yes, illegal no.

On a 2nd note, I've been a pharmacy tech for over 10 years and as much as I'm a HUGE couponer and bargain shopepr I am I ABHORE these nasty coupons.

Why you ask?

Well #1 ...I can't tell you how many people I've had come to the Pharmacy to pick something up..yell at me when it wasn't ready or I couldn't find it..only to find out it was at a different pharmacy. They couldn't keep track because they bounced around so much to use their coupons.

I've moved 3000 miles cross country - I'm pretty sure I'm not going to walk into my old pharmacy to try to pick up my script.

#2...If you don't get your scripts filled at the same pharmacy, it is next to impossible for the pharmacy staff to check for drug interactions between your meds. The computer scans your profile as to what's been filled to see if there are potential problems. If you got something at Rite-Aid and then fill something else at Meijer that would cause a potential lethal interaction...there would be no way to catch it. Doesn't seem worth $10 or $20 to me.

I take exactly one medication - birth control.

#3..I can't tell you how much as a pharmacy tech I HATE transferring prescriptions. The day is so full of phones ringing off the hook from patients calling in refill, doctors calling in scripts, people calling in to see if stuff is ready, people calling with questions..then the pharmacy staff spends half their time on the phone getting med refills and authorizations, insuarance approvals, script clarifications, plus waiting on all the customers at the counters, dealing with faxed in scripts and e-prescribed ones, counting all the meds, labeling all the meds, trying to put away the daily drug orders, trying to send the daily drug orders, getting yelled at because peoples stuff isn't done in 5 minutes...then to stop what we're doing to transfer a script that you're going to transfer out again in a month just so you can get a dumb coupon...is so frustrating!!

I have exactly one refill left until the prescription runs out. The only other option is not having my prescription filled at all.

Anyways...I didn't mean to rain on your parade, I just thought I'd provide a different perspective for those who work behind the counter with all the hoopla over these coupons.

And not to rain on your parade, but believe me, anyone who's worked in customer service - or dealing with the public at all - puts up with the same stuff every day. Is it fun? No. But it's a paycheck. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent correcting someone else's mistakes. But that was my job, and I did it so I'd get paid.

Honestly, if you have a problem with these coupons, you need to take it up with your employer, not the people bringing their business to you because of them. But as long as anyone offers them, the stores that don't offer them will have less business... which means they need less people to work there.

 

[Judique]

Wegmans has a $100 offer going. Transfer your prescription and get $20 in groceries. So 5 refills get you $100.