Re: Drugs online mostly cheaper

"Mineral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I am going to be entering the pharmacy field in a few months and I wanted
to hear your opinion on how these online pharmacies will affect
> commercial pharmacy use? Did I just get a degree in something that will
eventually be obsolete?

E-Bay and all the internet stores have not managed to close most local
business. I personally live so far in the country that it is easier for me
to buy books and many other items on the internet. There are however a lot
of drug stores in rural Mississippi.  The CR article mentioned independent
pharmacies.  I believe a lot of independent pharmacies will match whatever
American prices you can find on the internet, if you ask them. They need the
business! The local pharmacy I use also sells firearms, and tints automobile
windshields  He knows how to make money!

Besides Pharmacists are working in those online pharmacies.  Probably
working a 9 to 5, 40 hour a week job with no holidays to work. It is
probably like working for a nursing home pharmacy where you fill
prescriptions and they are delivered to a nursing home.  Also mail order or
online pharmacies only work for maintained drugs.  Prescriptions for sick
kids like antibiotics will always require a local pharmacy unless the
doctors start giving antibiotics out.

My son  was a Marine and he gets most of his prescriptions mailed to him by
the VA. They are a mail order outfit of huge size.