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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;omahaorange, post: 1711899, member: 28199&quot;]I appreciate your candor.&nbsp; Let me ask you, how often do you do that?&nbsp; Not often enough that it cuts into your profits would be my guess.&nbsp;&nbsp; I see what what you&#039;re saying, but you compare apples to oranges.&nbsp; Let&#039;s&nbsp; look at it from this perspective:</p><p><br /></p><p>In the town where I live there is a small pharmacy run by the owner.&nbsp; Mom and Pop type of operation.&nbsp; Owner is the head pharmacist and is there every day.&nbsp; There are also two large chain pharmacies within two miles.&nbsp; I actually use the small one.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; because I have seen the man give credit simply because he saw someone was a little short of cash.&nbsp; He has eaten insurance co-pays because he knew that particular customer couldn&#039;t afford it.&nbsp; He hires kids to deliver to the customers who can&#039;t get out and pick up their medications.&nbsp; None of this is available at the chain stores.&nbsp; His weekend hours are virtually non-existent, and his prices for non-prescription items is higher than the chain stores.&nbsp; But he stays in business, and does what he does, because he is the owner, and is in there most of the time it&#039;s open.&nbsp; He makes the decisions regarding the business.&nbsp; The employees at the chain stores, however, all work for somebody else, even the store managers, and are bound by corporate policies and rules.&nbsp; They have to comply in order to keep their jobs.&nbsp; I&#039;m not arguing what role corporate greed plays in any of this, that would turn this into a political discussion which would end it very quickly.&nbsp; The banks in question were mostly large &quot;chain&quot; bank branches (BoA, Wells Fargo, etc).&nbsp; We&#039;re jumping on the tellers (and yes, there have numerous derogatory comments toward tellers) when all they (the tellers) are doing is following corporate policy and being the bearer of bad news, all the while trying to keep their jobs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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