Well, CVS, you’ve had MY last dime.
The anti-smoking hysteria is just becoming stupid. Note that CVS isn’t losing alcohol, and their PURPOSE is to peddle prescription drugs, many of which are a hell of a lot more dangerous than tobacco. What next, chocolate covered cherries? sugary drinks a la Bloomberg?
Fuck you, CVS. Fuck you in the neck. Please join me in expressing my disgust, and EVERY TIME YOU GO TO ANY PHARMACY take the receipts and stick them in an envelope and mail them to:
CVS Caremark Corporation,
One CVS Drive,
Woonsocket, Rhode Island 02895
Let them know the money they lost by being self righteous politically correct dicks. I don’t even smoke and this pisses me off no end. I bet when medical marijuana comes around, they will devote plenty of counterspace to that. Monkeys.
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Never been in a CVS, never wanted to, still don’t.
There’s a local pharmacy chain, Bartell’s. The folks in the store near me where I get all my meds and drug store sundries know me by name and let me in anyway. I’ll spend my allowance there.
I don’t smoke either except my pipe about once every three months or so.
Gerry N.
CVS is also a major donor to the Joyce Foundation, and it’s many anti-gun front organizations.
Fuck CVS, you say. Well, yes. With a barbed-wire wrapped pineapple, coated with cayenne pepper. Sideways. On a jackhammer.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
There are lots of reasons to despise most big business if you look close enough.
I see cigarettes as a mildly harmful, very expensive habit for those who can afford it. I fully support CVS to decide to stop selling it. I expect other major stores to also do so. It won’t really matter. There will still be plenty of places that will carry them. But like my argument about legalizing pot. You still won’t see it on the shelves of any reputable businesses. They simply don’t want the hassles.
I support CVS’s right to stop as well. And I will support them further by refusing to do business with them, and I recommend other people do the same.
I had stopped using CVS long ago. Mostly around poor customer service and screwing me blind on a purchase. I could have corrected it so I have little reason to dislike them, but I do.
If you want me to come back act like you are interested in what I am doing and offer to correct any errors I make. fail to do that and I will never darken your door again.
And yes, I will tell a clerk if they made a change error regardless of favor.
My son has no insurance.
He went to the doctor who wrote him a scrip and told him to NOT fill it at CVS as they were the most expensive.
So, being my son, he went to CVS and priced it.
It was twice the price of Meijer’s pharmacy. 118 vs 238.
He then went to SamsClub where it was in a few bucks of Meijer’s.
He was leaving for another quote when they asked if he had a Sams Club membership. Michigan law requires them to sell to non-members.
When he said yes, the price dropped to $18!
Ed, just for interest, how much is a Sams Club membership and could your son join up there and then and still got the discount?
I think $25 and yes.
Sam’s club regular is $45, Sam’s business is $45, “Sam’s Plus” is $100. Annually for each.
It’s certainly your right to shop where you want to, pretty much … isn’t it also the right of a business to decide what they do and don’t want to sell? Isn’t that the American Way?
IIRC Target hasn’t sold tobacco products since the mid-1990s. (They felt it was too much of a hassle.) Did you stop shopping there too?
I do agree with you, most of the prices at CVS are ridiculous. I only shop there when something I need is BOGO, otherwise no. I fill my prescriptions elsewhere.
Tobacco is considered a crime by a lot of people and the government is probably not far behind. Makes me crave a cigarette. One of the few drinking establishments I still patronize just went smoke free … it really bothered me but that’s what the owner wanted to do and he’s there all day and night and I’m not so … I hadn’t smoked a cigarette in that place for a long time but the thought that I still could appealed to me.
I wouldn’t mind a nice cigar neither.
Jenny
I haven’t seen a pack o smokes in Target in I don’t know how many years…then again, I don’t recall them making a major statement to the effect of them no longer carrying cigs. (They may have, but it doesn’t stick to the few active brain cells.)
CVS, if not directly, certianly allowed for the media outlets to trumpet their “major positive position in the advancement of making the right healthy choice” FOR ALL OF YOU.
And since when was CVS in charge of making laws? All the headlines for this claimed CVS was “banning” cigarettes. I always thought that would mean that no one could sell, buy, or have on their person, that particular product which was “banned”…and that to do so would make one subject to some sort of criminal penalty.
So there is yet another example of either lazy editors, or willful bastardization of one more word in our lexicon.
I could (though I don’t shop there…and this guaranties I won’t in the future) have understood had they just quietly went “smoke free”. Wouldn’t like it…but it is their choice after all…and mine to take my business elsewhere. But the way this was paraded about…kinda makes one wish for them to be involved in the losing side of a hostel take over … by Walgreens.
Target made a business decision. I never heard a peep about it. CVS blew their horn about how great they were. It isn’t them choosing that pisses me off, it’s the self righteous hypocrisy. Again I say, fuck you in the neck, CVS.
I’ll believe cvs is looking out for the health of America when they take out that rack of Little Debbies. Now THAT is really a health hazard, damn her time. :)
Jenny
Indeed! And the Ben & Jerry’s.
Does Ben & Jerry’s still sell “Free Mumia” ice cream?
Hey, CVS is a private company, right? They have a right to sell or not sell products as they see fit.
If you’re going to go after CVS, go after them for the various and sundry real reasons to go after a company (Joyce Foundation support for example). But if they want to lose business by not selling cancer sticks, so be it. That is their choice.
Dave: Read. I don’t give a shit what they do, I give a shit about them being sanctimonious pricks.
It is even worse than sanctimony. CVS is hardly being bold in taking a stand against cancer sticks by going along with the current trend of the PC crowd. Were they to insist on providing plastic bags despite the brouhaha and take the PC crowd to court if they don’t like it, THAT would be taking a stand. I’m sure others could come up with even better examples. But labeling it as an independent choice of a private biz is missing the forest for the rotting tree this is.
Hobby Lobby standing against parts of the [un]affordable health care act’s provisions is a bold stand. Helping the government make what helped found the country [old devil tabak] now illegal isn’t. Something tells me that CVS either got a crony deal to go through with this, or some other kind of financial support from the PC crowd to do this public tobacco shaming move.