What else will Wal-Mart do for a buck? The $4 generic drug program is a great deal, and other local and national pharmacies should also do it.

Some pharmacies say they will lose money. Wow, lose money? Hasn’t anyone ever heard of a “loss leader” in advertising? All stores do it – you see it in their fliers all the time: “As low as,” or “While supply lasts.”

Most of those items are sizes or products most people don’t use, but it gets customers into the store, hoping that they will buy up something else not on sale, or that a salesperson can sell something else. It’s done all the time. Why aren’t drug stores doing the same?

The other thing I have with Wal-Mart doing this is we all know about the cost-cutting the store chain is noted for. Who is to say where they get those drugs from – Canada, Mexico or China? Not sure I would trust buying from them.

This would be a good time for the small and medium pharmacies to say to the drug companies: “This is our goal, so help us out.”

Time for low-cost drugs for everyone .

Gerry Labrie, Auburn