Posted on 02/05/2014 7:10:38 AM PST by rktman
When customers step up to make a purchase at a CVS store next fall, they won’t see rows of cigarette boxes and other tobacco products behind the counter. CVS Caremark announced Wednesday its decision to stop selling tobacco products by October 2014 in its more than 7,600 stores, making it the first large drugstore chain in the country to do so.
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I would venture to guess that the stock holders are not happy campers today!
Yep. Stoners soon to be everywhere. More easy to steer and control if they are high all the time. Millions of experiences have proved it time and time again. I know some think it doesn’t affect their behavior, judgment, body, or their coordination but they are deluded. We all make excuses for our bad habits to justify them.
When I was smoking, I found CVS seemed to keep their stocks fresh. Whether due to the volume of sales or better inventory management, I don’t know.
I’d gotten some awful tasting packs from random gas stations so I started using CVS. Didn’t hurt that they were right down the street either.
Wish one of the chains would jump on the e-cigs bandwagon with some force. I have to order the stuff online and it sucks running out if I’m not on top of it. If that industry would adopt some interchangeability standards, I think they’d take off. But that’s probably off topic.
require stoner licenses. Stoners are prohibited from havin ANY form of driver license. No motorized vehicles at all. (not even a motorized e-bike)
stoners should just cut to the chase and have special hospice hotels. (ala roach motel, they check in but not out)
they will still sell e-cigs.
This really sucks! I for one enjoyed the convenience of buying my inhaler, filling my COPD script and purchasing my cigarettes all in one place.
Down 1.5% as of now.
The convenience store across the street just got happy....
The old mom-and-pop pharmacies I used to frequent never did sell cigarettes to begin with. Thus, they were never something I would expect to see in a drug store to begin with.
You can still buy all the candy, sodas and ice cream you want there. All the sugar your body can handle. lol
Dollar General sells smokes.
But will they still stock the morning after pill for teens?
That’s kind of amazing, as I’m sure tobacco is a big profit item.
Imagine how big govt deficits would be without tobacco taxes and payments?
Controversial? lol. You can’t make this crap up. That has literally made my day. We are so done as a country. It is over folks....pack up and leave. Last one out, shut the door and turn out the lights. We are officially done.
This really sucks! I for one enjoyed the convenience of buying my inhaler, filling my COPD script and purchasing my cigarettes all in one place.
ROTFL. That is really really funny.
Who smokes these days? I’d wager it is less than 10 percent of the populace. Mostly junior high students and elderly Chinese women.
but birth control and abortion pills for kids are not controversial at all?
To add to my previous post, of the two main independent drug-stores my family did business with, one had a history back to about 1905, and the other, from the 1940s. They sold drugs, they had lunch-counters, and they had newstands.
But they did NOT sell grocery items nor cigarettes. So, it just still strikes me as ‘odd’ when I encounter a modern chain pharmacy selling Doritoes, bottled sodas, and cigarettes.
When do they start addressing abuse of prescription narcotics?
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