<p>The nicotine patch gave a friend of my husband a heart attack. He was 44. Who sells what is about the last thing I would use in deciding where to shop unless it’s something I need at that moment. </p>
<p>I am glad that the decision to stop selling tobacco was motivated by money. Perhaps that means other businesses will make the same decision. I don’t expect businesses to be charities–I am sure companies like Toms, which makes a big deal out of donating shoes to poor children, figure their donations mean they can charge more for their products. Again, not that I am criticizing–I am happy when businesses profit by doing something good.</p>
<p>E-cigs and nicotine delivery products are bad too, but that doesn’t mean the decision to stop selling tobacco products is not a step in the right direction.</p>
<p>I’ve been going to CVS for as long as I can remember. They are the biggest chain pharmacy where I live. I also like that when I am traveling and need a prescription filled I can get it at any CVS. I had to do that last year when I needed to go to Florida because of an emergency with my father and I was there longer than I expected. </p>
<p>Of course money played a part in CVS’s decision to stop selling cigarettes. They are in business to make money.</p>
<p>CVS just came to our neck of the woods in the past couple of years. We were already established elsewhere for prescriptions, though are starting to transfer to CVS. H already has all of his rx’s at CVS, I don’t have any on a recurring basis, we just need to do the kids. I do support a store that will help promote healthier lifestyles, even if it is motivated by money. Stores are supposed to be motivated by money, though I would hope that a pharmacy is also motivated by keeping people healthy (it is what they advertise, after all).</p>
<p>As far as the pop and candy goes, the pharmacies may eventually get there. It is one step at a time. And, more people are affected by 2nd hand smoke than by watching other people eat candy and drinking pop.</p>
<p>Pharmacies used to be simply pharmacies. These stores sell everything from pantyhose to potato chips and I don’t really care what any particular store chooses to sell. The manipulation and pr spin does annoy me, though. So when they essentially announce that they’re better than their competitors because they don’t sell this bad thing but they replace it with another bad thing I don’t get all excited about how nice they are, either. Motivated by money is expected.</p>
<p>Given an equal distance and convenient location, I would pick a CVS due to their no cigarette policy. Every little bit helps.</p>
<p>I don’t care about the this policy…won’t make me or keep me from shopping anywhere.
I rarely shop at these type stores anymore because they make you have their tracking card to let you have the sale prices. No thanks, I’ll take my business elsewhere.</p>
<p>It doesn’t impact my decision to shop there. It is my pharmacy and I don’t smoke. I’m asthmatic and it is awful for me to be around cigarette smoke. It disgusts me.
But, I am all about freedom of choice. Choose to smoke or not…choose to sell tobacco or not. Choose to shop where you want. Let grown ups make their own choices. As long as I am not forced to inhale someone else’s legal choice to smoke, all is well</p>
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<p>I really don’t understand this. Are you not in favor of controlling substances at all? Should we sell meth and LSD in drugstores too? What about other public health regulations–do you want lead back in your paint or asbestos in your ceiling tiles?</p>
<p>Legal is the difference.</p>
<p>I do understand that tobacco is legal. But I understood lje to be advocating against restricting adults’ choices. Cocaine used to be legal, as did lead in paint and asbestos in ceiling tiles. Based on the freedom of choice mantra, should we just let manufacturers sell whatever they want, since we always have the choice not to purchase their products?</p>
<p>I get my prescriptions filled at Target. I don’t think they sell cigarettes at my Target. But there is a rather large grocery section.</p>
<p>I can’t stand the CVS “rewards” program that doesn’t give rewards. And I really can’t stand Walgreens after their decision to NOT deal with Express Scripts holders for a year. They ran all sorts of ads asking us to “come back”. I can’t think of a reason why when there are TONS of other places to get a RX filled.</p>
<p>Maybe. But lje62 said legal choice to smoke which is the part that jumped out at me in comparison to meth & LSD. I do wonder when they’ll start selling pot though. It probably won’t be long in some communities.</p>
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<p>CVS is repositioning itself as healthcare provider rather than as primarily a pharmacy. </p>
<p>They run 900 in-store Minute Clinics that provide a full array of primacy and walk-in urgent care services. They have alliances with hospitals and clinics around the country to help run their services. </p>
<p>And they are rebranding as CVSHealth. </p>
<p>Tobacco would be like your doctor having a cigarette vending machine with ashtrays in the waiting room. </p>
<p>They are taking a $2 billion annual sales loss to do this refocus. But they see the Affordable Care Act as a long-term opportunity. They take most insurance. </p>
<p>My 17-year-son needed a flu shot and his pediatrian had retired. In our state, as a minor, he can’t get it at a pharmacy. I called my doc and they said sure but we’d have to make an appointment, go through the new patient rigamarole and we’d probably have to wait around in the office. But at the Minute Clinic, he walked in, entered info at a kiosk, and took a number like at the deli line. Didn’t wait too long. We were thinking about him getting his sports phsyical there, but, oddly, they don’t take insurance for that–although they do for most other procedures. But the price was very reasonable. Less than $50 (don’t recall the actual number). They list their prices on-line. Imagine your doctor doing that. </p>
<p>Normal doctors should be worried. People want respectful customer service. And if you’re willing to get much of your primary care from a nurse practitioner is a god doctor worth the hassle?</p>
<p>There’s a similar set up in the veterinary world. Petsmart has vet clinics–Banfield–in-store. I had my dog’s teeth cleaned for a fraction of what my traditional vet office wanted to charge. </p>
<p>Re: flu shots</p>
<p>Now there are both trivalent and quadrivalent flu shots. The quadrivalent flu shots have four strains of flu vaccine, versus three for the trivalent flu shots. You may want to specifically look for and ask for the quadrivalent flu shots to get vaccine against the fourth strain.</p>
<p>There is also a higher dose flu shot for those 65+ that CVS administers to older patients. Wasn’t asked either I wanted tri or quad flu shot when getting shot at Minute Clinic. </p>
<p>UCBA…target offers the full range of flu shots…and they take insurance. That is where I got my shot…and I specified which one I wanted.</p>
<p>Latichever in post #33 has the reason CVS discontinued selling cigarettes exactly right. </p>
<p>No, I’m not changing my spending habits based on this new policy. I wasn’t even aware they sold cigarettes prior to this. I prefer to be concerned about my own choices rather than attempt to control others.</p>