how do pharmacies work? Do they just have every kind of medication at all time? How is a prescription ready within an hour?

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how do pharmacies work? Do they just have every kind of medication at all time? How is a prescription ready within an hour?

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Yea, they keep many prescriptions on hand at all times. They know what are most common in general, what are most common in their area (based on demographics), and what long term meds their regular customers take for chronic conditions to make sure they have them. Even 1000 pills is like the size of a soda can, so not that hard to keep 1000’s of containers of different meds on hand.

But there are still times when they don’t carry all meds. My wife take a less common, expensive prescription and sometimes Walgreen’s needs to order it and it takes a day or two for prescription to be ready.