Maybe they figure a UK pharmacist would not get high from a returned CD but
would get high from an out of date CD? Do you have to have a witness to
destroy a returned CD if you are a pharmacist?  Laws generally do not make
sense as they are made by people who are lawyers and not knowledgeable about
things like pharmacy, medicine, firearms, so forth.

Elaine, when you become  a corporation as large as Wal*Mart then you can do
pretty much what you like in America.  Wally World, if a country, would have
a GNP greater than many other countries in the world. They get special
prices from producers by insisting that the producer sells to WM for a
special low discounted price. If they loose money on a particular pharmacy
return they will probably just make it up by selling the customer some
gasoline, electronic, clothing, or grocery item.

Down where I live they used to even refund cash for items returned to them
WITHOUT a receipt.  They finally figured out that people were stealing from
them and returning the merchandise for cash.  Now if you return something
without a receipt, they give you a debit card and you have to spend the
money at Wal*Mart. As you may have noticed, I don't particularly like Wally
World.  But they stock food items previously unavailable in my area (like
organic milk, kosher hotdogs, Sam Adams beer, many organic fruits and veg,
etc.) and they really have a great return policy.  So I do buy somethings
from them but I try to buy most groceries from a grocery store that has
served my area for most of my life.

  A Wal-Mart pharmacy is embedded in a larger store which sells
general merchandise and often groceries.    They use their pharmacies
as marketing tools to attract customers to the store.   Very often,
the patient submits his/her prescription,   shops in the store,  then
returns to pick up the medicine.   Since pharmaceutical returns are so
infrequent,   they can afford to take the loss in order to attract
business to the store as a whole.

  Jason