Allowing transfer coupons and programs that encourage transfers only promotes poly-pharmacy. This breeds potiental for serious medication errors. The purpose of a pharmacist is to asses if a medication is safe for a patient to take or not. Patients have been taking advanage of these programs by transfering multiple scripts to multiple pharmacies that offer transfer gift cards. I personally had a patient ask me to transfer three of her prescriptions, one of which was a new presciption never filled, to three different chain pharmacies. Those pharmacists have no way of knowing if those prescriptions should or should not be filled without doctor intervention. I am concerned in this economy where every dollar counts patients will continue to fill their prescriptions at mulitple pharmacies leading a serious errors.