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• Competitors follow Wal-Mart's lead on drug discounts

  Posted Jun 13 2008, 07:12 AM by Karen Datko
  Filed under: Saving, Wal-Mart, Consumer Affairs, Health care

  This post comes from Truman Lewis at partner blog ConsumerAffairs.com.

  Safeway will begin offering $4 prescriptions on hundreds of generic drugs at stores in the eastern United States and parts of the Midwest, becoming the latest supermarket chain to follow the trail blazed by Wal-Mart two years ago.

  The discounted prescriptions will be available at stores in the Chicago area, the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. The list of $4 drugs includes the antibiotic amoxicillin, blood-pressure medication atenolol, and levothyroxine for thyroid disease.   Read More...

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