I would have thought CVS would be more or less immune. Maybe they shouodn’t have dropped cigs.
Isn’t $oro$ invested in CVS?
CVS dropped Tricare but picked up USAA cash machines. All I know is that CVS started gouging me for prescriptions so I left in Sep-Oct 2016 after years of going there. Funny thing was one month the prescription would be free, the following $10 and the next month $3.52 - had one pharmacy guru drop all the charges at one location.
I suspect CVS is closing stores due to obsolescence and planned consolidations. In my neck of the woods they’ve been building new stores all over the place, to the point where they are competing directly with older existing stores in neighboring towns that have been there for years.
“I would have thought CVS would be more or less immune.”
We have two large CVS stores within 2 1/2 miles of each other. I see a lot of people filling their scripts at Walmart too.
I would have thought CVS would be more or less immune. Maybe they shouodn’t have dropped cigs.
CVS is crap, they took over our local drugstore chain which had a sterling reputation, and have driven them into the ground over several years’ time. Problems:
1. Lack of selection of products.
2. Pushing poor quality CVS goods.
3. Empty shelves.
4. Totally illogical arrangement of products in stores.
5. Items advertised on sale, but they are never actually there when you go to buy them, just empty shelf space — “we ran out.”
6. Rearranging of store interiors to shrink aisle space so carts cannot pass each other, and displaying of all sorts of crap goods in the aisles.
7. Printing of receipts that are about 2 feet long and contain all sorts of coupons for “deals,” most of which you actually can’t take advantage of because of restrictions on times the coupons will be good, other goods you have to buy to get the deal, etc.
8. Deceptive sales practices, where they first mark up goods and then purport to put them “on sale” for a price that is still higher than the non-sales price was. The conduct is compounded by foolishly not taking the other non-sale items off the shelf, so people can see they’re being ripped off. Example, “on-sale” plain instant coffee marked with regular price for $3.50 and on sale for $2.99, say, but the same product with “vanilla flavor” is displayed right next to it with an original non-sales price of $2.85.
9. Defective pharmacy software, which causes mispricing and errors filling prescriptions. When you have one of these problems and complain, the pharmacist will tell you their hands are tied, they had to replace their previous software with CVS required software.
And don’t get me going on Macy’s, crap goods at inflated prices . . . .
Both Sears and K-Mart have already gone out of business here.
I am hoping that a lot of this is caused by The Obama Era, and will turn around with a new political system under Trump where everything hasn’t been so crapped up by government.
It would be hypocritical for CVS to offer life saving prescription drugs for sale and health and life destroying cancer sticks at the same time.
Not sure, but closing 70 CVS stores is not a lot considering there has to be a few thousands around the country.
Ours in town died almost to the day they dropped ciggs. People used to go there, pick up a pack of smokes and whatever else they needed, now with Walgreen, Walmart and numerous other places that are cheaper to shop at, no one bothers going there anymore unless its for some kind of prescription you cant get anywhere else. They are ten times the price on their prescription stuff as well.