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Pharmacare's Initiative: We Care About YOUR World
PharmaCARE launched a new initiative, “We CARE about YOUR world”, which sends a contradictory message to its stakeholders. The message PharmaCARE sends to its customers and general public is that the company cares about the people, the environment and having an ethical business. The company sends the message to its investors and shareholders that’s the company plans to achecive high profits, even the company has to exploit people and native land. PharmaCARE offers free and discounted drugs to low-income consumers in America, but the workers in Colberia make only a dollar a day. If PharmaCARE was more consistent with all its stakeholders than their initiative “We CARE about YOUR world” would be

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