This post brought to you by Walgreens. All opinions are 100% mine.

Good morning, babes. Today’s entry is going to focus on a sad news I learned about a few days ago. You may end up finding it weird that I actually care about a dispute between two companies, but trust me: when you’ve learned to love the initiatives a certain company does, seeing it in trouble takes your heart as a whole. It’s unavoidable.

It’s Walgreens and Express Script to be engaged in a controversy. And I am on Walgreen’s side.

You see, Walgreens had been through a number of negotiations with Express Scripts (its middleman to distribute Walgreens products) over the past year, but none of them went through, and Express Scripts’ verdict was to remove Walgreens from its pharmacy distribution network. It’s a big deal, one that Walgreens is trying to fight with discounts on annual memberships at its Walgreens Prescription Savings Club.

The fact is… that the issue does not just affect the companies and their internal politics… it affects customers, patients living on prescription drugs. Try thinking of yourself in need of certain drugs that your doctor wants you to buy from the Walgreens brand, and your local community pharmacy doesn’t have them anymore because distribution was interrupted. What do you do now?

That’s the real issue at hand… and it’s why I’m on Walgreens’ side and I’m writing this post. In its life, Walgreens has done a lot of good for people, starting with low cost drugs, extremely cheap annual memberships (what’s a $5-$10 for a year of drugs you need to live well?), the Way to Well Fund™ to bring sanitary information and medicines to the poorest communities across the US, plus Walgreens’ support to US troops through the Tricare health program. It’s ethically horrid to cut distribution to a humanitarian company of this kind.

I’ll tell you: I look forward to a quick resolution of this dispute, in favor of Walgreens. Or at least, that Walgreens can find another great middleman that will take its effort and humanitarian initiatives in consideration.

I added Walgreens on Twitter a couple of days ago, and just placed a ‘Like’ to Walgreens on Facebook last night. A tiny way to show my support. It needs some, really.

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