human pharmacists are liability protection (Score 1)

In US, pharmacist is responsible for any dispensing, or prescription errors (yes, including PCP's prescribing wrong medication or doses). This gives large Pharma liability protection against lawsuits, thus pharmacists must carry own insurance for malpractice and are professional liable at risk of unable to purchase insurance, otherwise un-hire-able. Last decade, name of the game was to keep cutting tech hours, while buying new stores, consolidating stores, offering new services and dynamically control volume. There is no shortage of tech's, Pharma is simply not hiring them. Robotics at this scale is significant investment, wonder if this decade long approach was a way to sell the change to shareholders.