Posted on 09/03/2014 7:23:37 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
As CVS sharpens its focus on customer health, the nation's second-largest drugstore chain will tweak its corporate name and stop the sale of tobacco nearly a month sooner than planned.
CVS Caremark will now be known as CVS Health. The signs on its roughly 7,700 drugstores won't change, so the tweak may not register with shoppers.
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I have gone to the CVS store at the corner of 16th and Meridian in downtown Indianapolis to buy two newspapers and two packs of cigarettes every single day for the last twelve years.....until last week when Brandy my favorite clerk told me they were permanently out of Marlboro silvers.
I now go to the Wallgreens directly across the street as, apparently, a hell of a lot of other people are doing according to their manager whom I spoke with. She said they have virtually doubled their cigarette business and overall store sales are up 15% in the last two weeks. As I told her, “who would have guessed that smokers buy a lot of other stuff too”.
It’s a free country and I applaud CVS for exercising their constitutional right to sell what they want to sell. And I am absolutely sure their smug, self-righteous, politically correct CEO is applauding my choice to spend four or five hundred dollars a week with his competitor.
Used to go to CVS for cigs. Now I have to use more gas to go father to buy cigs, causing more air pollution and global warming. How many people will sick because I’m having to go farther to buy cigs?
I’ve though the same thing about CVS’s I see. They seem to have been overbuilt by some 60%. They need to try a few CVS the size of a 711. As for going tobacco free, surrounding stores will pick up that business. This will be seen as a bad decision. It may take a long time before they admit it though. Look how long it’s taking the school districts to get rid of those Michelle O-Menus.
Correction: four or five hundred dollars a MONTH.
CVS used to stand for Consumer Value Stores.
Aisle after aisle of crap IMHO.
The Christmas stuff should be coming out any day now./s
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They have also begun charging customers a dime or fifteen cents if you want a bag. Most times the bags are gargantuan, and swallow up the tiny merchandise. The customer is being punished and penalized for wanting their stuff in a bag!
Did the CVS sell newspapers up until your most recent visit? I have been in CVS’s that sell no local papers.
I’ve never been impressed by the CVS stores I have been in, in multiple states.
Walgreens beats them hands down in every category of marketing/merchandising.
All CVS’s in my area sell both the Indianapolis News and USA Today, both Gannett publications, as well as the Wall Street Journal. I despise Gannett but my wife and I are addicted to crossword puzzles and do the puzzles in both papers every day at lunch.
The CVS’s downtown also sell the Indianapolis Recorder, a Black American owned newspaper.
Why would pharmaceutical companies care? Hell, they profit off smokers. Insurance companies that pay CVS for the drugs their customers need, however, may try to draw that line someday.
Our CVS stores have Minute Clinic’s in them already. They have had them for years.
Drango is a well known cigarette nazi here on FR.
I did not know that about Drango, but I suspected that. Thanks for the heads up.
Exactly!
Party on dude!
If they really cared they would match Costco’s drug prices.
Prescription drugs nearly 450 percent pricier at CVS than at Costco: report
CVS stands for Consumer Value Stores. i think.
by putting “Little Clinic” style health-care services into its stores.
agree there is a money trough for clinics.
Why are they worthless as a pharmacy, I’m curious. I’ve used and enjoyed Walgreens all my life but recently my company switched our prescription coverage to CVS caremark. I can no longer use Walgreens. However thankfully Osco and Meijer both take it. At first due to the name I thought I’d be stuck with only CVS and no choice.
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