The stock that's quietly costing you
You walk past the same shelf every morning. On it sits medication that's in date and in spec, but has nowhere to go.
The packaging was opened. The stock is short-dated past the return window. The formulary changed. The wholesaler won't take it back, and it can't be dispensed here. So it waits.
It waits for months. Sometimes for years. Until a reverse distributor hauls it off and destroys it. Years of frozen capital, gone.
It doesn't have to. Another pharmacy needs exactly what's sitting on your shelf.
