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Originally Posted by ardeegee
I never said that it was "something you have to live with." What I'm saying is that boycotting every location for a major chain store based on the mistake of one person at one location is to use your term "hardly a logical argument." Collective blame and "punishment" for the faults of a minority or an individual is dumb. There has been no mention of Wal-Mart being told of this-- there is no mention of Wal-Mart acting unsympathetically about this. This happened far too recently for any judgment to be made on "how Wal-Mart is treating her." What I'm saying is that you are going to boycott a drug chain because a pharmacist at one location made an error in dispensing medication-- you are going to be boycotting every drug chain. You will have literally nowhere to turn for medication if you need it. Sure, he has every right to stop shopping at Wal-Mart over this-- but that in no way makes it any less of a knee-jerk reaction.
And this is the magic statement-- people don't go to Wal-Mart's pharmacy because it is the best, or the most fully stocked-- people go to Wal-Mart's pharmacy because it is cheap. If anyone tried to implement a solution that results in more costs going to the consumer, the consumer will scream bloody murder and look elsewhere for their medicine.
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It's always someones mistake. But such mistakes should be eliminated, and in most cases firing the one who did the mistake doesn't work. We're not computers, we are humans and as such there is always the possibility for mistake. It's left to the drug-delivery-chain to reduce your chance of making a mistake.
Having huge chains of pharmacies reduces the price of the meds, especially if there are no standard retail packages. The question is, is the low cost worth these 0,0x % of people who will get damaged/killed by the system? For the 99,9(10-x) % probably. This is a very tough question, resolved differently in the different countries. Here, in Germany, such case is more or less unthinkable. But the whole health system is very different too.