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Originally posted by PASig:
Everything at CVS is way overpriced. Every. Thing.

It's probably to make up for thefts they can't do anything about in places like Seattle. People walk in and steal shit all the time. There was a local family-owned chain of pharmacies called Bartell's. They sold out to CVS last year. Didn't cite a reason, that I recall. I happen to think it was all the theft they couldn't do anything about. I got my prescriptions through them, and now it's CVS. They inherited a problem in the buyout, but they're big enough they can afford to close all the stores affected by this and not crater like a smaller chain would have. If a local, family-owned business here closed all their locations in sketchy parts of the region because of theft, they'd immediately be decried as racists and probably get boycotted and go under. CVS, a big national chain? They get to pick and choose and instead of racism, it's "changes in population, consumer buying patterns, and future health needs to ensure it has the right kinds of stores in the right locations for consumers and for the business." Same problem, different name for it.

To get a job at CVS you need to be trained when hired in CRT type basics. I know because my grand daughter looked into applying for a job there. She went to Walgreens instead. I don't know the specifics of the training but I say that CVS can kiss my ass. If I have a choice I will go to Walgreens.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:

Didn’t Walgreens buy CVS a few years ago it was it the other way around?.

Quite a while ago, all the Eckerd drug stores in my area became CVS.

In my earlier post on the first page:

CVS since its merger with Aetna is trying to move into the healthcare business with their own Doc in a Box. Similar to the Minute Clincs in Walmart.

Further information is that it was an 18 billion dollar merger between Aetna and CVS. Almost immediately folks who had Aeta health insurance were REQUIRED to fill their scripts at CVS

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It's probably to make up for thefts they can't do anything about in places like Seattle. People walk in and steal shit all the time.

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There merger had nothing to do with that. It has to do with San Francisco laws and unwillingness to prosecute any shoplifting under 900 dollars.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:

Didn’t Walgreens buy CVS a few years ago it was it the other way around?.

Quite a while ago, all the Eckerd drug stores in my area became CVS.

IIRC, Walgreen's bought out most Rite Aid pharmacies perhaps four to five years back. CVS got Eckerd, and closed the Eckerd's nearest me.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

CVS since its merger with Aetna is trying to move into the healthcare business with their own Doc in a Box.

I believe that the merger with (acquisition by?) Aetna is fairly recent.

The nearby CVS has had a Doc-In-A-Box for well over ten years, so that pre-dates the Aetna merger by a long time.

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I believe that the merger with (acquisition by?) Aetna is fairly recent.

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2018. The effects were pretty much immediate in the clinical area. No Doc in the box here in CVS. You have a larger market in Mouseville and surroundings.

My local non-chain drug store closed their prescription service as they could not make money at it according to the owner, a customer of mine.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

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It's probably to make up for thefts they can't do anything about in places like Seattle. People walk in and steal shit all the time.

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There merger had nothing to do with that. It has to do with San Francisco laws and unwillingness to prosecute any shoplifting under 900 dollars.

We have the exact same issue here, though. It was just the stores in San Francisco and not the many stores around here that they bought? I would guess that it had a part, it's become a very big problem in Seattle.

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Originally posted by PASig:

In closing...Fuck CVS

This.

Because they own their own PBM, they drive reimbursements down at all other contracted pharmacies year after year with their crappy contracts. They spell the doom of independent pharmacies for sure, and short of vaccines, it is near impossible to do more than break even on the cost of the drug in any other pharmacy. That doesn't include paying staff, electricity, supplies, rent, etc. Anyone want to know why it takes so long to fill a prescription? Can't pay enough staff to do the work in a timely fashion because these POS insurers pay Nada.

F CVS/Caremark and all their ilk. They have ruined the profession of pharmacy.

I just received word that Tricare is removing Walmart from its list of affiliated pharmacies and is adding CVS back to the list (it had been removed some years ago). My nearest CVS is adjacent to a Walmart, but it doesn't affect me--I use a Walgreens when I need a local pharmacy; it's actually a little farther than the CVS, but I started going there when CVS was taken off the Tricare list. For continuing renewals I have the prescriptions transferred to the Express Scripts pharmacy, which gives better prices.

flashguy

When CVS first opened where I lived years ago, they offered discounts on their merchandise according to the little sale price tags on many items. I found out that in order to get the discount, you had to register so they could track your purchase history and harass you via email sales flyers.

I passed as I didn’t want to be tracked. It was the same at many retail stores like Kroger, who followed the current trend no doubt conceived by some KGB trained MBA.

Luckily an HEB store opened. They don’t have a membership program and have a pharm as well as groceries.

I stopped at a CVS store recently when on the road and when asked for my member id, I replied I didn’t have one. Clerk entered a fake id number and gave the discount anyway. Had a fake number ready. Guess they figured out that too many customers were lost.

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Originally posted by maxdog:

in order to get the discount, you had to register so they could track your purchase history and harass you via email sales flyers.

I typically register in order to get the discounts. The first time I receive junk email from the merchant, I "unsubscribe." It works, just about all the time.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Everything at CVS is way overpriced. Every. Thing.

Definitely true. and the service at the pharmacy is underwhelming.

Even then, I'm sure stores hit with rampant thievery will be the first ones on the chopping block.