Attention Smokers! CVS Drugs is discontinuing cigarette sales, most brands are 50% off!!! Hurry before they're all gone!
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Attention Smokers! CVS Drugs is discontinuing cigarette sales, most brands are 50% off!!! Hurry before they're all gone!
Why are the sales always on cancer-INDUCING drugs?:confused:
Attention Smokers! Save even more. Stop buying cancer sticks.
Good question but it might not be fair. I recall reading that CVS decided to take a loss on tobacco-sales profits in exchange for the health of their customers.
Suspicious, yes, because corporations rarely if ever deviate from maximizing profits. But let's suspend judgement for a while in case this might be a precedent for corporate responsibility.
That could be a game changer. [[I hope I don't have to eat my words.)
It will speed up the checkout lines. Clerk rings up sale, customer dithers a bit, then says "Gimme a pack of Doofus Gold 100s". Clerk turns around and looks at the imposing assortment of cigarette packs behind her and traces her finger over them one-by-one asking "This one?....". Clerk finally rings up adjusted sale, customer dithers some more trying to put the cigs away, and leaves.
Oh I don't know.... compared to looking for and scanning coupons... price checks... lottery tickets... and all around chit-chat with the clerk.... cigarettes aren't so bad... the clerks are usually pretty hip as to where the brands are, and which specific ones to pull off the shelf.... ;)
Are the "hookah" supplies also 1/2 off.....:rolleyes:
CVS is getting a lot of positive press about this. I wonder if Walgreens will follow suit?
I love how free people feel to scold about cigarettes.
It really shows you that it isn't a public health issue at all. It's a moral crusade.
Smoking is quite a filthy habit, but a lot of us do it. I think CVS is burning itself by banning all tobacco sales.
I would think that the folks in the head shed at CVS did a lot of number crunching and soul searching before they announced this. I think it may be a PR push to allow them to have a "doc in the box" at every store [[or more probably a NP). Go to the store, see the health care provider and proceed directly to the pharmacy.
I was thinking the same thing.
I could imagine one argument in favor of this change might have gone something like "Sure we'll lose tobacco revenue now but if our customers live longer into their pharma-consumption years, we'll more than compensate for that loss."
They're currently building what I believe will be a new MinuteClinic inside the CVS near me.
I found a couple news items:
Em, maybe a little of both actually.
Whatever happens to harm an individual or a group usually beckons moral choices and judgments. Everything from CIG smoke to CIG butts on a sidewalk bugs me. I can't help being bothered by it, but I never crusaded against smoking. I am however glad some people had the fortitude to fight for less smoke in the public space. I care less about smokers' rights than non-smokers' frankly.