Wal-Mart Pharmacy Changes

As you may know from prior postings on this subject or as a matter of common knowledge, last January Wal-Mart started offering deep discounts on hundreds of commonly used generic prescription medicines at $4/month or $8/3 months.

As of this January, the following changes have been made:

1. 3-month (90-day) prescriptions are $10.
2. New prescriptions have been added at $9/month or $24/90 days:

• Ventolin HFA, the asthma inhaler
• bupropion ER, the equivalent of Zyban for stopping smoking
• alendronate/Fosamax, the osteoporosis weekly pill
• tamoxifen, the breast cancer chemotherapy pill
• several birth control pills

Otherwise, the other medicines are still $4/month.

As previously mentioned, I'm not a big Wally World fan. However, I have to say these prices on hundreds of the most widely used medicines are probably saving lives in a time when lots of folks have to make food/medicines/housing/heating decisions all the time.

The increase from $8 to $10 for 90 days worth is still an unbelievably good deal; particularly with the addition of the aforementioned medicines!

I imagine the reason they continue to offer these discounts is that folks spend an average of $35 whenever they walk in. If you don't want to buy anything else, then don't. But that's a pretty unbeatable deal on medicines if you need them.