> Retail and pharmacy chain London Drugs [...] has shuttered its stores across Western Canada until further notice.
> The chain says pharmacists would still support customers with urgent pharmacy needs [...]
Er... which one is it now? If they support customers with urgent pharmacy needs, the stores can't be completely shuttered?
Also, there is no information about any of this (including which stores are open and under what conditions) on their website - but maybe they also no longer control that website?
At the location I visited yesterday, somebody let me in because I wanted to go to the pharmacy, but they turned other people away. They gave me a few days' supply without charging me.
I have a choice of three very-local pharmacies. I stuck with one, and now they know me (10+yrs) they'll give me a prescription, and get the note from the doc (electronically) shortly, after holidays etc. I'm just honest with the doc - and he's 400m from the pharm, so no shenanigans there.
The last I remember LD was a Toshiba/IBM OS 4690 shop for their point of sale system. I don't think there would be compromise there, it's robust (enough) that I haven't seen (many) exploits on that platform.
The rest of the company network though (other servers, endpoints) could well be screwed as well as anything trying to hook to it.
"support" doesn't necessarily mean they sell anything. I don't know about the system in Canada, but around here the pharmacy can hold your prescription repeats for example or other important information that you'd have to get before you can pick up your drugs from a different location. Or you may have local vaccination scheduled. Or other things that pharmacies do.
> The chain says pharmacists would still support customers with urgent pharmacy needs [...]
Er... which one is it now? If they support customers with urgent pharmacy needs, the stores can't be completely shuttered?
Also, there is no information about any of this (including which stores are open and under what conditions) on their website - but maybe they also no longer control that website?