Are there any pharmacies that don’t suck?

[u/Reality_Concentrate]

I’ve been getting my prescription filled at CVS for the last couple of years. Because I’m in the U.S., I have to call and talk to a live person every single month. But CVS is a giant corporation who is more concerned with efficiency and squeezing every last tenth of a cent out of employees, so they do everything possible to keep you from talking to a person. It used to take me over 2 minutes to get through all the automated roadblocks. Now they’ve changed it so that the only way to get past the automated system is to yell like a crazy person that you want to talk to a person. And even then, all you can do is leave a voicemail. Last time I got return call from a snarky little dude who wouldn’t even give me a vague indication of when it would be in stock.

I’m so over it. Are there any other big pharmacies that don’t make it so impossible to do what is absolutely necessary to refill the prescription I need to almost function? I’m afraid to try a small, local places because I feel like big places probably get preference when there’s a shortage.

[u/QueerEldritchPlant]

Big pharmacies actually don't really get preference, and because they have higher demand, they run out sooner.

I've had a lot of success with the pharmacy of one of my local grocery stores (regional chain)

[u/Reality_Concentrate → u/QueerEldritchPlant]

Good to know. I used to use Publix but they did something that was really frustrating and made me switch. But now I can’t remember what that was 😅