Generics medicines are supposed to be a cheaper alternative to name-brand drugs, but a recent Wall Street Journal found that there wasn't as much difference as you might think.
Here are the prices at Houston stores for 90 tablets of generic Prozac:
- Walgreens: $117
- Eckerd: $115
- CVS: $115
- Sam’s Club: $15
- Costco: $12
Those aren’t typos. Walgreens charges $117 for a bottle of the same pills for which Costco charges $12.
It should be noted that chains like WalMart and Costco consider medicines as loss-leaders (a way to drive people to their stores) and the real money is made on those large-screen plasma televisions and that 10-pound box of pretzels.
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