<p>I don’t shop a lot a drugstores but today I wanted to pick up some Vitamin C on my way home and I could have stopped at Walgreens but instead I realized that if I drove another few blocks I could go to CVS instead. </p>
<p>I figure the price of Vitamin C is more or less the same at CVS and Walgreens. Not sure how much more I would pay for something at CVS but I do want to support the no-tobacco policy. Anyone else? </p>
<p>I went into a CVS and said Wow you still have cigarettes. And they said yes we are going to sell them right up til the day they tell us we can’t sell them. They should also get rid of all the candy and soda and start selling vegetables.</p>
<p>I personally wouldn’t mind if stores stopped selling candy and soda and sold vegetables instead. But I am not sure I see your point. Are you saying that we should not ban anything that is harmful unless we ban everything that is harmful? </p>
<p>Our CVS DOES sell vegetables & produce (in limited quantities). I am pleased that they stopped selling electronic smoking devices and are now banning tobacco products. I wish all pharmacies and grocery stores did so you had to go to a tobacco shop to buy these products instead of them being peddled all over the place. That’s how they are sold in Canada, with just white sign with plain block lettering indicating tobacco sold, and graphic warnings on all packaging.</p>
<p>CVS bought out Longs Drugs, which was the major & preferred pharmacy in our state. They still have the lion’s share of the Rx business here. I have never really patronized Walgreens much (they recently entered our state) and now less incentive to start.</p>
<p>I’ve always used CVS as they are the major player where I live. So nothing is changing here. But I am glad they stopped selling tobacco.</p>
<p>Don’t believe for a minute it was altruistic, though. There’s got to be some reason that it became untenable for them to sell tobacco, and they’ve spun it into a story about caring for your health. </p>
<p>What’s amazing is that it has taken so long for this to happen!</p>
<p>You were never obliged to buy tobacco at CVS.</p>
<p>In my store, where the tobacco products used to be, they replaced them with tobacco-cessation advertisements.</p>
<p>I hate the disorganized way they set up the CVS’s. I much prefer Walgreens aisles.</p>
<p>I’m not going to buy cigarettes and I don’t buy alcohol or candy or chips or mostly anything they sell in those places besides cleaning products and the occaisonal last minute birthday card. </p>
<p>I don’t care one way or the other what they sell.</p>
<p>I live in the Washington, DC, area, so there’s a CVS in practically every shopping center. Kind of like Dunkin Donuts in New England. You would have to work hard to avoid shopping there. Besides, it’s where I fill my prescriptions.</p>
<p>I do appreciate their decision to stop selling cigarettes. Now, if they would stop selling worthless homeopathic remedies mixed in with the legitimate over-the-counter drugs… </p>
<p>We have Bartells. I think Pizzagirl hit the nail on the head. Someone ran the math and thought they would be $$ ahead. Here is what some think is going on:</p>
<p><a href=“Antitrust Institute Warns CVS Anti-Tobacco Policy May be a Smokescreen for Exclusion of Rivals”>http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/antitrust-institute-warns-cvs-anti-tobacco-policy-may-smokescreen-exclusion-rivals/</a></p>
<p>I’m so glad that I remembered they opened a 24 hr Bartells in my neighborhood so I wouldn’t have to go to Walgreens to fill my rx.
Hate Walgreens, they are always so slow even when no other customers and atmosphere/merchandise is trashy.
I also don’t like their generic formulas.
Bartells is so much nicer, although when it is earlier in the day, I use the Safeway or Fred Meyer pharmacy, so I can combine errands.</p>
<p>I am a frequent visitor to CVS. They have been the most helpful with my shifting insurances so I continue to go there. The no-smoking policy does not make a difference to me, though I am glad they did it (regardless of reason). </p>
<p>Also, I really, sincerely wish people would stop comparing smoking to pop and candy. Are pop and candy healthy? No, absolutely not. However- pop and candy have zero effect on your health if you do not partake in them. This is not true for smoking. Smoking has secondhand effects that many smokers don’t seem to give a rat’s patooey about. </p>
<p>CVS replaced cigarette sales with e-cig sales. They make more money on those and they are far less hassle. I go to Walgreens but it’s about location not whether or not they sell something I’m not buying anyway.</p>
<p>short answer is no. I go to the nearest pharmacy.</p>
<p>btw: for supplements like Vitiamin C, costco is the way to go.</p>
<p>It makes no difference to me. They are a private business and can decide their own business model. I’m sure it is not as altruistic as they want it to sound. </p>
<p>They’re the only drugstore in our small town and I’m happy to support them. I bet that most people shop for convenience. If there was another choice equal distance away, I would choose CVS because of their tobacco policy.</p>
<p>I live in the city, so everything is convenient. 
I have the luxury of shopping at stores that I agree with their policies&/or are locally owned.
That said I see no difference between selling tobacco in a cigarette or nicotine in a tube/patch.</p>
<p>I always used CVS more because there are more of them. I was annoyed with Walgreens which tore down a perfectly nice diner in a useful location for a diner and put up a store two down from a perfectly good CVS. They were out of business with a couple of years and a new diner is going up across the street. What a waste - though I guess some construction workers are happy!</p>
<p>@emeraldkity4 The nicotine patch is a lot less likely to give you lung cancer.</p>