Walmart Launches Money Saving Effort for People with Diabetes
BENTONVILLE, Ark., July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Walmart today launched an effort to save diabetes patients in the U.S. up to $60 million annually with Walmart's exclusive ReliOn brand of diabetes products. ReliOn products provide an affordable, high-quality option to help the nearly 26 million individuals who live with diabetes in the U.S. better manage their disease.
In particular, Walmart introduced today the low-cost ReliOn Prime meter and blood sugar test strips. The retailer will offer the ReliOn Prime meter for $16.24 and ReliOn Prime blood sugar test strips at $9 for 50-ct strips, or 18 cents per test. People with diabetes use meters and blood sugar test strips daily to test their blood sugar levels and determine when they need to take insulin.
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Permalink Reply by TimmyMac on -
I think theres one drawback to these strips. Every other time I've been to walmart since I bought those strips (like, 5 times) They've been out of stock! It seems like everyone is buying the things up!
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Permalink Reply by Betty J on
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TimmyMac, have you looked to see if you can buy them online? if so then you can stockup.
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Permalink Reply by gene on -
Just got a whole bunch of strips from Walmart in the US (they don't have them in Canada). The Relion Prime seems to test 10-20 higher than my One Touch Ultrasmart. I really wish I had a greater meter variety to compare. Anyone else have any issues with them?
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Permalink Reply by pancreaswanted on -
i live in spain and whenever im back in the us i get about 400 of these to use with the 100 a month the spanish socialised medicine gives me every month. i find they work fine. my relion meter also tests about 10 points higher than both of my accucheck nanos. i take off 5 to avg the numbers out. when i test on my accucheck i leave that number alone :)
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When I go out I keep a Walmart Prime meter in my purse. I compared it with my Nova Max and it does test higher but since I'm aware I have no issues with using it. I test often and would be upset if I wasn't able to test.
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Permalink Reply by gene on
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Lost my response. sorry if it gets double posted.
Thanks, I'm super excited about these once more. I'll keep in mind the slightly higher test results.
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Permalink Reply by Melitta on
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This is great news! And others will have to follow suit to remain competitive, I hope.
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