Archived CVS Pharmacy @ Target

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tgtcpht said:
Most likely because we are paid better than other pharmacy employees at other stores, our prices were lower than other pharmacies, and we weren't regularly "short-staffed."
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Just quoting this because I am a little amazed, but in my area our technicians are regularly paid a few dollars less an hour than the other pharmacy chains. It isn't unheard of for technicians to start with Target to move to a competitor to make more money.
 
oath2order said:
Or pfresh
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This probably has more to do with the staffing in Pfresh IMO. We run with MAYBE 95 or so hours a week over in pfresh. That number is deceiving though once you add in breaks, lunches, morning working huddle for 20 minutes, closing working huddle for another 20-30 minutes, for me backup pharmacy (the other day I backed up for 2 freaking hours during my shift), and also jumping in with C+S during closes which is almost 10 hours taken away to help push. And dont forget backstocking everything because backroom for my store ONLY pulls product
 
pfreshdude said:
This probably has more to do with the staffing in Pfresh IMO. We run with MAYBE 95 or so hours a week over in pfresh. That number is deceiving though once you add in breaks, lunches, morning working huddle for 20 minutes, closing working huddle for another 20-30 minutes, for me backup pharmacy (the other day I backed up for 2 freaking hours during my shift), and also jumping in with C+S during closes which is almost 10 hours taken away to help push. And dont forget backstocking everything because backroom for my store ONLY pulls product
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One good thing about the CVS merger... No more Pharmacy backups..
 
Hardlinesmaster said:
I am not certain how this impacts us:
https://www.thelayoff.com/express-scripts
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To be clear for anyone who may not know the relation, Caremark is a pharmacy benefit manager and a part of CVS Health, the parent company of CVS Pharmacy.

Express Scripts/ESI is a different pharmacy benefit manager.

While these are different (read:competing) companies, one doing massive layoffs could mean paralleling employment trends for the other. Compare this to, say, Wal-Mart reducing the work force over and over again, pushing the retail norm into skeleton staffing.
 
Sickofspot said:
A lot of team members in my old district are being told to get their flu shots by 8/31. I guess CVS takes over as of September 1st.
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Nobody has any way of knowing that or anything along the line of dates. As I stated previously in the thread, both companies are waiting on the FTC ruling on the matter. The FTC (Federal Trades Commision) is a government run operation that oversees that this would be an allowable purchase checking for things like monopolies in the market. Nobody in Target or CVS can do anything to enforce the purchase by any deadline, it's currently a waiting game, with cooperation from both companies as the FTC requires anything further.

Ultimately, this purchase could still fall through. There is no guarantee on it passing yet. If it were to fail however, there could be even greater concern over the fate of the pharmacy and everyone employed in that area.
 
Sickofspot said:
A lot of team members in my old district are being told to get their flu shots by 8/31. I guess CVS takes over as of September 1st.
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I can guarantee this is not the case. Nobody has received an offer yet & it would be logistically impossible for them to extend the offers, do the drug/background checks, train said TMs, install new systems, and everything else associated with the transition in 5 days.

They are probably telling them to do that so TM flu shots are done before the general public starts coming in to get them as a majority don't want them prior to then. OR, it may have something to do with a "district-wide contest" or goal they are trying to do that begins 9/1.
 
Yep, they always push flu shots on us from now to January. They'll say and do anything to get us to get it done. If they could morally do it, they'd probably make us get one once a month.
 
Did anyone ever think it is because they...<gasp> don't want you to get sick?

There is a contest running on how many flu shots each store can get, but the pharmacists and pharmacy techs I know tend to actually care about their patients and co-workers and genuinely care about their well-being.
 
I will get my flu shot. But the never ending hounding is ridiculous. The floater pharmacist we had today came up to me twice today and said, "team member, you should get your flu shot!" Calling me team member was a new low. Either call me by my name (I have a name tag) or just start talking to me by saying, "hi."

A big fight erupted in our STL's office on Tuesday. The pharmacy decided that the latest bribe is that anyone who gets their flu shot tomorrow will get an extra 15 minute break. The LODs and the STL said absolutely not. The STL said he couldn't justify losing so much time to the truck if the flow team takes the pharmacy up on it. The SrGSTL straight up asked the pharmacist if the pharmacy techs would be coming up to cover those extra breaks at the lanes that we would have to squeeze in. Never mind the process teams and all of the stuff they have to get done.

Yesterday, when the pharmacist came up to me to give me my daily, "if you don't get your flu shot, you will die" lecture and told me about the extra 15 minute break they were giving out. I just stared at her. First, I was very thankful to not be GSA tomorrow so I don't have to figure out how to honor those breaks. Second, as guest service person, there is no way I could justify screwing my GSTL by making him cover an extra break he really didn't have time to cover.

I told the GSTL about that tonight, and he nearly went through the roof, because the pharmacist was told on Tuesday in no uncertain terms they would not be offering that gimmick.

I know they have a quota. And I will care about their flu shot quota the day they start asking guests to sign up for the REDcard. They don't care about my quotas, I'm not feeling particularly compelled to care about theirs.

Honestly, I am so sick to death of being hounded nonstop that I am extremely tempted to go to a different store to get my shot. I'm trying to be friendly, but enough is enough.
 
I saw a huge sign at rite-aid get your flu shot today and I'm thinking wait a second it's not even flu season. They really are jumping the flu season early.....
 
Flu shot? Oh hell no.

I have a pathological fear of needles. And I'm not talking about the kind used for sewing.
 
I got asked today if I wanted my flu shot. I would've done it, but it's not something that I can just do on the spot. I need to be mentally prepared for it. I'll just setup a doctor's appointment.
 
I dread flu shot time because I cannot stand how much they hassle team members to get them. I don't get flu shots but I always just tell people I already got mine so they leave me alone. Couple of nights ago I read the huddle notes and did my duty telling team members to go get the flu shots and the STL said he was going to go get his after huddle. Shortly after that he came over to where a I was zoning with another Team Member and asked us to go over and get our flu shots. I responded that I had already gotten mine and he said "oh really? I asked the pharmacy and they said no one else besides me that is working tonight has gotten theirs." I was beyond pissed and looked him straight in the eye and told him I felt like he was violating my privacy and that I had gotten a shot but not from work. His face was bright red. Don't think he'll be hounding me ever again about the shot.
 
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