Seeking God Knows What

I think I might be about to “sell out” to Walgreens for my three bagillion prescriptions.  I just got a thing in my mail for their new prescription discount W card.  It costs $35 for a family for a year ($20 for an individual) but you get a $20 gift card.  I checked with the pharmacist and while two of the drugs cost about the same as I’m paying with my current discount card, one is about $20 cheaper for my new rx (45 pills) than I paid for my recent 30 pill refill, and the last two are better than I’m paying now if I can buy in a 3 month quantity.  Moving my prescriptions to Walgreens would be nice because after they have them, you can refill pretty much at any Walgreens.

However, it means not going to my nice downtown pharmacy where they know me when I walk in and ask about Widget.  I’ve been getting the majority of my prescriptions there since I was 12 in 1989.  I even stayed with them after we moved 30 minutes away because I’m always back in Holland, so I just try to refill when I’m there (I do have to make sure I get there before 5:30 on Saturdays as they aren’t open on Sundays).  I used to work down the street in the specialty toystore and I was a big supporter of the small independent shops downtown, although now I do tend to shop the “mass market” stores like Target, Kohls, Old Navy, Barnes & Noble.

Is it weird that I feel bad because I really like the pharmacist/owner and her staff (except one pharmacist who no longer works there- she was always grumpy)?