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You realize indies make more profit per script than chain right?
You really must be smoking some really good stuff. CVS Has 10,000 retail locations, a mail order division and a long term care division and a PBM. You seriously underestimate the purchasing power of a company that fills 1/3 of all retail scripts in the USA.. You seem to think Amazon or someone else can out purchase them. Some rinky independent doing 1000 scripts a week. At 52000 scripts per year at an average price of $250.,00 per rx you would have 1.3 million in sales. And I am being generous at $250.00 average per rx. The last store I managed had 5 million in sales per year.
They have enormous purchasing power. Your dinky little independent doing 1K per week doe snot buy anywhere near what CVS buys at. The same goes for everything else. Let's say you want to upgrade your laser printer. You look at Newegg, Tiger Direct, Amazon or BestBuy. They call Lexmark and order 25,000. Who do you think gets the better price per unit?
I have 15 stores in my district. NONE of them do less that 1200 per week. We have multiple store over 3000, one at 5000 and one at almost 10,000. This is a very profitable company. CVS Health is the 8th largest corporation in the USA and the 19th largest in the world. They are enormously powerful and profitable.
You may feel they are understaffed, but they are well run from a financial stand point. No, the average independent is not more profitable than an average CVS. The economies of scale do not compare.