Amazon launched its new "Amazon Pharmacy" service Tuesday, which means it is now selling prescription medication in the US. Amazon Prime members will...
  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    yes I would love an overworked Amazon employee to bag my medications in less than five seconds or face disciplinary action, I'm sure mistakes won't happen

  • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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    4 years ago

    haha cool now when my Amazon account gets banned for too many returns I can now die from lack of access to insulin

    Thank you capital for this amazing innovation

  • leftofthat [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Are we not in a race to nationalize Amazon at this point? I'm just increasingly worried it's going to go the other way and they use it to be a late stage UBI to drive further blood sacrifice. Where every "Citizen" becomes a Prime Member as long as they remain in good graces. Teaming up with Uber, Amazon can entirely cater to people working in their homes and just deliver them their food, their clothes, their toys, and now their drugs, while its Billionaire affiliates extract the workers' labor and give them more money to spend on Amazon products. Shit Deutsche Bank is already talking about a working from home tax.

    We'll all be gig workers -- ready to do our assigned online task for day. Or to go out into our pre-selected Uber to take us wherever the great National Organizers want us to be that day. Likely moving bodies out of the Amazon Warehouses.

    Service guarantees Prime.

  • Comrade_Crab [any]
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    4 years ago

    This sounds like a recipe for disaster. I don't know how it works in the US but where I'm from only a pharmacist with a degree is allowed to sell you prescription meds. I seriously doubt Amazon is gonna be employing actual pharmacists to prepare your orders, so get ready for overworked and unqualified warehouse workers bagging controlled substances lmao.

    • RalphGrenader [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      They will use the same model as mail order pharmacies, so yes they will employ pharmacists. Think of this as CVS mail order by Amazon.

    • MedicareForSome [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Not sure where you're from but in the US, the pharmacists are unable to sell most drugs. You have to go to a doctor's office first to get the prescription and then bring it to the pharmacy to have it filled, even for stuff as silly as antibiotic creams.

      Unlike many countries, our pharmacists are basically only in charge of making sure that the doctor didn't make a stupid mistake like prescribing a pill that makes your birth control not effective anymore. If you go to the pharmacy and ask for something they can only sell you stuff that you could have bought yourself from the shelves anyways.

      So this makes sense for amazon in the US where you don't really have a relationship with your pharmacist like you might in other countries.

      • anthm17 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Pharmacists are still well trained and are supposed to have a high level of competence.

        It’s important that if I get prescribed a new drug I can talk to the pharmacist about it.

      • Comrade_Crab [any]
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        4 years ago

        That's actually what I meant yeah. It works like in the US. You need a doctor to write you a prescription, then a pharmacist can sell you the drug.

    • hagensfohawk [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Imagine thinking that the H1-B pharmacists hired by CVS, Walgreens and Walmart have a managable workload or actually develop relationships with patients. Lol

  • SaberTail [any]
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    4 years ago

    I wonder if their supply chains will be better than anything else they sell. I've gotten so much counterfeit junk ordering from Amazon.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      complete this CAPTCHA to refill your anti-convulsive medication

      c'mon shaky, just click the fuckin' boxes

    • KoeRhee [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The article says they bought a small drug delivery startup named Pill-Pack in 2018. That's basically it lol.

  • comi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    New cope bit idea: bezos is secretly making planned economy from the other side, absorbing the whole state function into one enterprise to rule the plebs establish falgsc.

  • Torenico [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ok when will Amazon buy their B-2 Spirit bombers for their own private military?

  • shitstorm [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Amazon's only business policy is to gain market share by undercutting competitors and underpaying their supply line. Not that prescription drug prices should be that high, but this is typical Bezos and completely horrifying.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    wonder how cheap itll be hrt is a bitch to deal with irl