The *Angriest* Pharmacist You want your prescription filled when? Eat shit…

Wal-Phed? Nope – don't carry it

Okay, the main rule about this blog is that the reader never knows who I am. I want this thing to be read, enjoyed, shared, and complete anonymous. I won’t tell you where I work. I hope even the state I live in stays secret, but I will tell you that I do not work for Walgreens. I was an intern there and hated it. I have buddies that work there that love it, but I like my slower, calmer pharmacy environment much better.

Unless you were born on Mars or are illiterate, you know that Walgreens slaps their prefix on every product in the store. It’s quite irritating. Wal-Phed. Wal-Tussin. Wal-Cortisone. Wal-Pregnancy Test. Hell, they may have Wal-Emergency Contraceptive as far as I know.

So, when someone walks to my counter and inquires about Wal- I shrug my shoulders in disgust and want to say, “Sorry, we don’t carry that here,” and send them on there merry way. Instead, I do the polite thing and tell them, “Well, that’s a Walgreens’ store brand, but we do carry our generic equivalent.”

Either way, a little piece of me dies inside when people don’t realize that they are being brainwashed by the marketing geniuses at Walgreens. It works. I must give them their proverbial props. On the other hand, a piece of me dies inside when the person looks me right in the eye and says, “Ohh, well that’s the only thing that works. I guess I’ll go there…”

Perhaps “Children of Men” wasn’t such a bad premise. Let’s de-fertilize the world and rinse the idiots off the planet.

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