Why would a pharmacist come work for CVS?
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No other retailer is safe to work st the has longevity... walgreens is laying of 10% of their corporate crew and 25% of their national crew will go to robotics ad announced and published in 1 years time... rite aid is dying any year now, no stability, kroger/safeway/albertson merger shaky and their own layoffs are center stage... only 1 doing well with retail stability is cvs...thats why
Because they couldn’t get hired anywhere else.
Every pharmacy school student knows what cvs is by their last year of pharmacy school prior to graduation. It’s not a secret.
I've never seen it this bad. Floaters and rphs from walgreens who won't even do half the queue as a cvs rph. New rphs quitting after less than a year. No pic for months at some stores. Don't go over hours and tell me how many shots you gave
Just my 2 cents, but I think some, especially young pharmacists, just don't know any better. CVS does a good job of marketing themselves as a great place to work. We all know that CVS is one of THE worst companies to work for, but a pharmacist straight out of pharmacy school probably doesn't know that yet. So they take the job thinking that it's all good. Until they realize that it's complete and total he-l. However by then, what with student loan debt and all, they feel trapped so sadly they stay. Corporate knows this, they just don't care.
This - would wait to join to see how CVS stabilizes. They are on shaky ground at moment after the last big merger announcement plus losing a big PBM client last year. Letting go a bunch of IT type contractor people last week and this week.
In my area we got a lot of pharmacists from Walgreens because of the 50k-75k bonus cvs was offering. Most are planning on leaving CVS after they put in their required 2 years.