My local CVS and Rite-Aid have struck me as exploitative employers going back at least 15 years especially in their treatment of their pharmacists. The employee

My local CVS and Rite-Aid have struck me as exploitative employers going back at least 15 years especially in their treatment of their pharmacists. The employees at my Rite-Aid have this "slightly-dangerous" vibe that suggest that there is a chance that they will turn cruel, vengeful or at least completely cold and uncaring over something insignificant if they think they can do so without getting into trouble whereas the ones at my CVS just seem completely subjugated and broken in spirit. I always assumed that the cause of this state of affairs is the increasing untenability of independent pharmacies, which increasingly restricts the options available to pharmacists (then the miserableness of the pharmacists trickles down to the other employees in the pharmacy department). I started using large chain pharmacies about 15 years ago after the pharmacist at the local, mom-and-pop pharmacy I was using told me that it would cost him $50 more to fill my prescription (for Bicillin) than he would receive from my insurance company, then I noticed that the large chain pharmacies didn't seem to have this problem of costs exceeding revenue. The local pharmacy went out of business in 2021. I use Alto.com these years and haven't set foot in a bricks-and-mortar pharmacy in at least 3 years. I have seen no signs that Alto.com's employees are exploited, but then I probably wouldn't see signs even if they were since I never see any employee in person. Dealing with Alto.com requires from me significantly less patience and persistence than dealing with Walgreens, Rite-Aid and CVS ever did.