I did, on the very first watch. And it's not just this GoodRx Commercial- it's an error that shows up in every single commercial featuring a pharmacy. And it takes me out of the ad every single time because I feel like I've been projected into an alternate reality where nothing at all makes sense.
Here's the mistake: Never in the history of the universe has anyone simply walked up to a pharmacy to find someone at the counter waiting to fill their prescription. Yet in all these ads, not only is there never a line but there's someone in a white coat making eye contact while the customer is still ten feet away, as if the pharmacist is just standing there waiting to be Activated by a customer. We who live here in Reality know full well that pharmacists are NEVER at that front counter when we finally get there- if we're lucky, they are visible in the back looking at screens or putting stuff into bags. If we're really lucky, they are using one of those cool pill sorting machines that news channels feel the need to show us whenever mentioning anything to do with prescription drugs.
If we're not really lucky- and it's a typical day and not a reality-bending dreamscape like we see in these GoodRx ads- what we see instead is at least three people in front of us on line, no clerk in sight, and eventually a promise to have that prescription that we were told by an automated voice message was ready two days ago ready in another fifteen minutes to two hours Would We Like To Shop For Awhile And Come Back ThenTM?
A pharmacist just waiting for a customer to casually approach the counter? Yeah, right.
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