Online Pharmacy Drugs Vs. your Local Drug Store
What is the difference between online pharmacy drugs and other forms of pharmacy drugs? The major difference between both these is form in which the drugs are available. A local drug store gives you the easy availability but within a time during a day, you can make purchase through online pharmacy drugs without giving a look to your watch. A number of times, it has been observed that the usage of online pharmacy drugs far exceed the well-known advantages it has. As such, knowing advantages of online pharmacy drugs would be a revelation of sort.
The following are some of the advantages of it –
•Easy availability of a drug
•Delivery of the drug at the doorstep
•A number of such stores hand out online prescriptions which are alternative to prescription from a doctor and comes at no cost
•Flexibility in terms of the timing to order and buy a drug
•Stiff competition amongst the online pharmacies also helps in minimising the price of a drug.
•One can compare price list of a number of such online pharmacy drugs stores before buying.
•One can order and buy from the convenience of home or office
•Simple process to avail the drug i.e. one just needs to put in credit card information and shipping address to place an order for a particular drug through such sources.
•Privacy of not letting others know on what kind of disease you are is suffering from.
Disadvantages of online pharmacy drugs store are -
•Easily accessible hence misuse of drugs is possible
•Risky financial transaction if proper care is not taken
•Loss of personal identifiable material without precautions
•False information in availing online prescription may lead to false prescription
An online pharmacy allows an individual to order and buy online with numerous discounts. These low cost online pharmacy drugs are of same quality as of drugs available in a local drug store. As an online pharmacy employs lesser number of employees, it can lower the cost of these drugs. In addition, an online pharmacy is also able to minimise the cost by lessening the shipping cost of the drugs they sell.
Order and buy your dosage of a number of drugs from these online pharmacy drugs store after evaluating its pros and cons. Get in-depth knowledge on the working of these online stores from other sources too and go for ordering or buying these drugs but with precautions.
Jacob Miller
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April 22nd, 2010 at 7:21 am
Canadian drugstore chain gives shocking 'customer service' – no local/HQ response, where do I go?
With no satisfying response from store manager or store headquarters, where else besides the Better Business Bureau can I report this, to take it above the company? … It’s just so wrong, yet I don’t know what to do.
This is a lesson in how not to do customer service.
Okay so say you’ve never stolen a thing from anywhere in your entire life. And say there’s a store where you’ve been a regular for 7 or 8 years, spending thousands there in that time. And say they take your full shopping basket and say you can’t buy your products, in fact you’re banned, and they treat you like a robber. Isn’t there a communication/conflict resolution step that investors might prefer? Doesn’t common sense come in somewhere?
I am in my local Shoppers Drug Mart every two or three days, and spend upwards of $100 a week there.
A couple of months ago I was there buying concealer. There was no colour indicator on the package, no testers, and no colour indicator on the display, so I opened the package to check the colour. As I did, a store employee – with the name tag Aris – came up and began yelling. He was correct that packages are not meant to be opened, and I indicated that but also explained it wasn’t possible to know the product colour. He continued raising his voice and demanded the product, I explained that I was buying it, which I did. At the makeup counter, I said that I was shocked by the aggressiveness of the employee – and the behaviour, that immediate accusation with no discussion costs a business customers. I explained that I am a regular. The checkout person explained that there have been problems with thefts in the store, and so staff are very sensitive and angry about anything that might be understood as such, and the staff member therefore reacted inappropriately.
Later, I filled out the Shoppers Drug Mart survey online based on a till receipt with a survey URL. On the survey, I explained the incident and explained my extreme dissatisfaction with the situation. I recommended that staff training include better preparedness for situations like this. In my view, approaching a customer immediately with ‘Can I help you?’ at least allows for the possibility of a miscommunication and not losing a customer. Checking the Optimum card and seeing how much a customer spends there could be another recommendation before deciding that a regular customer is a thief.
I had no response to my online complaints.
Today, perhaps two months later, as I entered the store I saw the employee with the furious temper, whose name is Aris. I was surprised, I had not seen him and thought he may have been been suspended based on the previous incident and his people skills. I had a basket and went around the store getting things from my list, when a security guard identified himself and asked if I had ever been banned from the store. I was baffled, and said I’d never been told that I was. He was persistent. I was extremely offended. This is a dreadful way to treat one of your regular customers. I asked to speak to the store manager. The store manager Vincent Yeung asked for personal ID. I was puzzled, as I was there to complain, but passed it over. The staff member with the past-visit furious temper entered the pharmacy and spoke with the manager who then curtly informed me that I was permanently banned from the store, and could not make my purchases. No willingness to discuss, to look at my store card to see that I was such a regular, or to explain their situation.
The message suggested by staff, security and the manager was ‘the customer is wrong if we say so’.
I’m someone who’s never stolen in my life. I was escorted out by security and treated – well, as though I’m a robber. I was quite shaken, and I still am quite stunned and enormously disappointed that a customer could somehow be treated in this way and at levels up to manager treated as guilty.
I sent the company a complaint with my optimum number encouraging them to look both at my purchasing history, and the amount that not having me as a customer will be costing at this location. So far, there has been no response.
I am enormously offended and humiliated that this happened to me in my community, appalled by how these incidents have been handled, disappointed that an earlier customer complaint was completely ignored, and so enormously frustrated. To be clear – I have never stolen anything in my life. I have been a very regular Shoppers customer, and am known to be an extremely honest person in my career and my charity work.
I feel that I have been accused of a crime I didn’t commit, verdict and punishment with just the humiliation and no recourse.
It’s awful business, and it is not fair.
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:23 pm
If you are not in the Province of Quebec (which probably still operates under a modification of Code Napoleon), you might consider contacting a lawyer WHO IS NOT IN CONFLICT OF INTEREST, and suggest public defamation of character. In many provinces, there is no ‘theft’ until you attempt to remove an item from the store without first paying the appropriate price.
Contact the provincial Ministry of Health; contact the federal Department of Health.
I hope your community is large enough that Shoppers is ‘not the only game (drugstore) in town’.
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April 22nd, 2010 at 12:25 pm
not every canadian drugstore is really good
References :
http://canadasouthdrugs.com/