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Its kind of sad picturing the customer with a headache needing a app to tell him what medicine to buy at CVS...while there is a pharmacist right there. I do li
by throwaway_tech 7y ago
Its kind of sad picturing the customer with a headache needing a app to tell him what medicine to buy at CVS...while there is a pharmacist right there.
I do like the quip at the end about lacing up all birds and jumping on the bird scooter. This makes me think how badly I need allbirds to join the sharing economy...how great would it be to have allbirds scattered all around your city sidewalks so you have a paid on demand when you need them without having the overhead of actually owning them. Its not sexy and doesn't scale well, ticking all the VC boxes.
- heisenbit 7y ago> while there is a pharmacist right there who has a very clear understanding of the margin of the various products in the shelf. Maybe competent but certainly not unbiased.
- throwaway_tech 7y agoMaybe in a small independent pharmacy you have this issue, but biggest pharmacies in the World (CVS, Walgreens, Walmart) the pharmacists will not know the margins of over the counter drugs and have nothing to do with purchasing them. >Maybe competent but certainly not unbiased. I suppose they have a bias in the form of legal liability and professional licensure which guide their recommendations. That is, they can be sued for negligence, malpractice and otherwise potentially lose their license to practice. Tech startups are notorious for placing profits before users, and lack accountability in the same way as licensed professionals. In a worst case scenario they fold up shop and move to the next industry to "disrupt".