CBC News spoke with former Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy employees who believe the company is taking advantage of the MedsCheck service by pushing staff to bill for consultations patients don’t necessarily need. The company can then bill the province up to $75 per call.
This shit shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
Shoppers are owned by loblaws. The same company that got a Manulife contract to provide specific medications through it’s pharmacies at the end of January.
Yep, we are insured through manulife and get email of recent payouts to pharmacies. We had some that didn’t seem right; showing medicine picked up at Shoppers by my kid and billed…Except they live in another city and used another Pharmacy. The Shoppers was prefilling refills and billing to Manulife without us requesting the refills. After Manulife got notified they took over reclaiming monies. So I don’t know if this was a Rogue shoppers trying to make quarterly targets on drug sales, or if this is a rampant problem that normally slde in witglhout most people noticing, like kahootz to show gains on shoppers sales and manulife xan show loses.
Greedy motherfuckers gonna greed.
Get wrecked Galen Weston.
Democracy and the right to dissent are meant to oppose abuse like these. Why isn’t anyone protesting?
Because we’re too busy trying to earn a wage that can afford all this.
Besides, the second we set foot in the streets to protest, the cops are there to beat us up to get us back in line.
I often wonder, if you shot a few billionaires in the street and explained that the reason was because of rampant profiteering, would the rest of them get the memo?
Ah, who am I kidding? That’d get the rich to turn full fascist…
Such a shame.
Worked for them from 2004 to 2009, first as a member of the renovations team and later as a front store manager.
Was a great job and a great company (especially for managers pay back then) I truly enjoyed my time there for the most part, especially the reno team, which would see me and my crew traveling around Western Canada renovating and/or setting up new stores before moving on to the next.
But this was long before friggin’ Loblaw’s bought them up and turned it into just another mega-corp treating their people like line items on a spreadsheet.
It just feels like the older I get, the more everything I remember fondly ends up getting fucked by corporate greed.
This is a ridiculously common thing in companies that live and die by KPIs.
They’ll agree on a set of measure that supposedly incent the behaviours they want to see, but don’t actually think about those incentives’ having feedback loops or unintended consequences, and because there’s no small amount of executive pride wrapped up in them, they wont go back and revisit their mistakes.
Loblaw does this a lot, by the way. Example: I’ve dealt with their procurement support team, and one of their metrics is minimizing the number of “clicks” it takes to purchase something from a vendor, which is admirable, but Loblaw took this to the extreme and actually breaks purchase-price-verification because this would take extra clicks, and the number-of-clicks was more important than the integrity of the buying process.
