Wednesday 10/25/2023
Why Amazon always wins. Because they have it all, right where you want it. Wednesday mornings I refill my pill cases for the week. Today I noticed my supply of two supplements and of my Famotidine acid reducer, was running low. So I sat down to order more.
First to a site where I’ve ordered supplements many times, Swanson Vitamins. They had my Resveratrol and my Calcium Citrate Petites, but they didn’t have Famotidine. Oh. I looked at the bottle; it’s a generic Famotidine that I got at CVS. No problem, go to CVS.com. Sign in because I have an ID at CVS. Search for Famotidine. It shows me nothing but the name brand Omeprazole, no generic. But I got it there! I open a new tab to shopping.google.com and search Famotidine there. One of the first results is CVS! So they do have it, they just don’t want to show it to me. Another result from Google: Amazon.
I go to Amazon and in under 2 minutes, I have located both my supplements, exactly the brands, dosages, and quantities that I want to replace, and the generic Famotidine. All at one site, one order to place, at the same prices as the other sites. The only annoyance is that with any drug or supplement, Amazon makes it easy to accidentally sign up for a subscription, and forces you to make an extra click to get a one-time purchase. That aside, the convenience wins. And a big fat raspberry to CVS for hiding the generic product.
Which brought me to 9am and time to go set up for the third End of Life session. That came off smoothly. Had a quiet afternoon. In the evening I took a tech call, a resident complaining that one particular show was in Spanish. Craig warned me beforehand that this would be the Secondary Audio Program (SAP) support on Xfinity. Somehow the alternate audio gets switched on. He was right. Somehow Hannah had gotten the Spanish soundtrack for that one program switched. Switch it back, all good.
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