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Re:Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy u... by Nk26 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:38PM (#39280239)
Amazon pharmacy is probably one of the best interactions I’ve had with Amazon and pharmacies in general. We moved everything we could to it. The support has been great. Get things quickly all the information is right up front.
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Re:Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy u... by tedivm on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:57PM (#39280477)
I have a migraine medicine (Qulipta) and have gone through half a dozen pharmacies in the last two years. The fact that I have both insurance and a manufacturers coupon seems to screw them all up, and several just stopped doing migraine meds. I am not functional without this medicine. I would literally qualify as disabled since I have migraines so often. Even two days of not having the med throws me off for a full week.

Without insurance or the coupon it's $1600/month. With insurance it's $650/month. With the coupon and insurance it's $0/month.

Amazon is the only pharmacy that didn't mess up the insurance. They also autoship on time every month. I'm not even joking when I say that I actually cried over how difficult it was with other pharmacies.

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Re:Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy u... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:54PM (#39280444)
What happens when they sunset it?
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Re:Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy u... by sadfsdafklj on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:21PM (#39280812)
Amazon isn't Google. Amazon still operates SQS.
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Re:Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy u... by malfist on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:56PM (#39281271)
Why did you single out SQS?
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Re:Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy u... by manishsharan on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:35PM (#39282446)
All the hipsters are on Kafka.
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Re:Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy u... by arccy on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:54PM (#39280451)
but amazon is so user centric it will never kill anything... just let it rot
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Re:Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy u... by adolph on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:14PM (#39280692)
> one of the best interactions I’ve had with Amazon and pharmacies in general

Clearly they were spending too much money on it. The idea is for there to be no interaction other than a payment/delivery cycle. If there are plural positive interactions the overall system was poor (needed multiple interactions) and staffing too expensive ("best" rather than mediocre).

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Re:Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy u... by Domenic_S on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:57PM (#39280476)
Agree. I also use PillPack for my recurring meds, also an Amazon company. The standard for medical company interactions is a very low bar, but both companies kill it every time.
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Re:Amazon is chopping jobs at its One Medical and Pharmacy u... by TMWNN on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:20PM (#39280792)
I also had a good experience with PillPack as a previous customer. I don't know whether or how PillPack differs from Amazon Pharmacy.
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