This post brought to you by Walgreens. All opinions are 100% mine.

I published a long post about this debate on Honey-Babe.net just a few hours ago, and on Novella.nu before that, but I feel that my readership here should be informed about my views as well.

The debate regards the ongoing dispute between Walgreens and Express Script.

If you’ve read about it, on my blogs or on Yahoo! Finance, etc., you know what Express Scripts did to Walgreens: it kicked it out of its pharmacy provider network, leaving not just Walgreens without a distributor, but thousand and thousand of people across the States without a community pharmacy that sells Walgreens products, and this affects all Walgreens pharmacies in the States, including the Duane Reade pharmacies in New York City. It’s like a widespread plague.

The Walgreens Prescription Savings Club is doing its best to cope with the issue, though. In fact, it’s offering cheap annual memberships – of the value of $5 per individual or $10 only for an entire family – to help customers deal with the sudden lack of product distributors; the deal includes a lot of discounts on brand-name purchases too.

There’s little we can do to help Walgreens through all that, but at least we can ‘LIKE’ Walgreens on Facebook and – if you have a Twitter account – add @Walgreens on Twitter. It’s a little help, but it’s better than nothing. At least, it shows distributors that we CARE about Walgreens.

Walgreens did so much good for its customers, especially for the most disadvantaged communities in the States with the Way to Well Fund™(inclusive of sanitary information and free health tests), the support to US troops through the Tricare health program, and the hundreds of discounts on all products.

It’s time we help Walgreens too. ;3

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