the cost plus stuff is prescription plan agnostic and super cheap; i would encourage you to take a look. they don’t have all meds but they have a huge variety and using it even outside of my insurance dropped my rx cost by about 60% per month
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-14/column-retail-lobby-confesses-it-lied-about-organized-shoplifting-rings
i don’t want to say i told you so but i told you so
so then maybe the police (an organization and class of individual i truly loathe) should actually do their jobs so that people can be suing the state instead of cvs or whatever :)
it’s all just excuses anyway because these companies don’t actually want to do anything about these problems
cvs had net profit of over four billion dollars last year. they can afford better (read: more) security and better partnership with local police
but they don’t because that would cost money and drive down share prices :) that’s what corporate greed looks like
it’s definitely profitability (something theft only impacts on a meaningful level at small format stores) otherwise target wouldn’t be opening a new store in harlem a mile and a half away from the one they are closing.
https://jasher.substack.com/p/why-is-target-closing-stores
here’s a great example using some data (with caveats of course) of how spot is absolutely full of shit
there’s no statistical evidence that shoplifting crime is why these stores are closing and every time these big corporations say that shoplifting is a problem it turns out that it isn’t when they release their quarterly/yearly financial statements (e.g, the place they cannot lie)
idk why...
you can’t call someone overdramatic for worrying about heatstroke and then say it’s “getting warm” in some parts of the country when “some” parts of the country with large urban populations are seeing record setting heatwaves both in terms of overall temps and longevity of the high temperatures...
just fill out the paper or do it in mytime and keep some evidence that you submitted it. there’s no hoops or discouragement and it’s there for you to use