[Magdalen] Penny-pinching silliness

[Molly Wolf]

I am greatly blessed by my pharmacy, led by Jeanie who is a freakin' genius.  She keeps every customer's prescriptions memorized and can tell you in an instant whether an OTC medication will interact with your prescriptions.  Every year she sits down with each customer for a meds review, as well as being available for consults.  Local MDs regard her as a treasure.

As long as Lorne Running is my mechanic and Jeanie Tang is my pharmacist, I am not leaving Gananoque.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Mar 4, 2017, at 9:53 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My experience with CVS has not been as good as yours, Scott. I switched
> from Walgreen's when I left Richmond because there was no Walgreen's in
> Harrisonburg, and I've been unhappy with both CVS stores I've dealt with
> here. The pharmacy departments have both been overworked and acted harassed
> and like they barely cared, and often have been out of the drug I need when
> I need it. It also takes them forever to fill a prescription. The same
> thing was true at the CVS in Tennessee, which was why I switched to
> Walgreen's in the first place. I have recently changed to Rite-Aid here and
> have had nothing but positive experiences with them so far.
> 
>> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 9:42 PM Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>> 
>> You're a wimp at penny-pinching.  I will go (and recently have gone) to
>> 
>> the "office" counter at WalMart to collect on a perfectly valid $1
>> 
>> coupon that the checker's computer refuses to recognize (humans can read
>> 
>> English: the computer can't, and the checker can't overrule it on
>> 
>> coupons -- only the spirits in the wires know why it was refused.)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I prefer to go to the supermarket 7.5 miles away on Wednesday, because
>> 
>> that's their day of the week for the 5% Senior Citizen discount, but
>> 
>> this week I had to go on Thursday for a couple of things, and since it
>> 
>> was "Banana Thursday" (I don't get bananas every time I go to the store,
>> 
>> but sometimes I do, rotating the "fruit" part of my diet)(I have no idea
>> 
>> why that particular store sells bananas cheap every Thursday)(19¢/lb) I
>> 
>> picked up five, which is about as many as I can go through in the time
>> 
>> before they're gone south.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 3/4/17 6:07 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>>> 
>>> Went to CVS/pharmacy today to pick up a bunch of items now that I had
>> 
>>> a 20% off coupon to bring the prices down closer to what they should
>> 
>>> be.
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> Rang up the stuff myself on a self-checkout and headed toward the car
>> 
>>> realizing I had forgotten to swipe the coupon...a little voice within
>> 
>>> said, "The coupon is why you bought the stuff now! Go back and get it
>> 
>>> re-rung!" So I sheepishly went in and said I had stupidly forgotten
>> 
>>> about the coupon and could they redo this?
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> They could not have been friendlier or more accommodating. Basically
>> 
>>> they bought back all the items with cash and rerang it all with the
>> 
>>> coupon and I paid with the cash. But basically I lost some advertised
>> 
>>> discounts on some of the items and the coupon saved me only $4. I felt
>> 
>>> silly.
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> At home I mapped out the complex transaction on paper because I felt
>> 
>>> like I had ended up paying double. Nope. I had paid on the credit
>> 
>>> card, had been given the cash and paid the cash back, so the original
>> 
>>> payment persists, give or take about $4.
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> My head hurts now. I should use one of the Alka-Seltzers I bought. :)
>> 
>>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Sibyl Smirl
>> 
>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
>> 
>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>> 
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