• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    If you want a chuckle, look at their OTC meds and calculate price per milligram.

    CostOfBottle / (#PillsPerBottle * #MgPerPill)

    Do this for all the basic meds you keep in your home.

    Now go to Costco or Sams or something and do it again. No shit, the difference is 100-fold sometimes, especially if you compare things like name brand (aka Tylenol) at Walgreens to generic (aka Kirkland’s “Acetaminophen”). Turning it even more extreme, look at the little single-dose pouches they sell at the checkstand - folks are literally paying the same at Walgreens for like 2 pills as they are at Costco for a bottle of 500 of the same dose.

    It’s fucking wild.