CVS pays CTFK to help gain more customers

[pamdis]

CVS rebrands itself as CVSHealth and pharmacies stop selling tobacco in 2014.

CVSCaremark, a prescription drug benefit manager, announces bigger copays for customers who purchase prescriptions at pharmacies that still sell tobacco starting in 2015, which will push customers to buy prescriptions at CVS.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/20/cvs-cigarettes-prescriptions-charge-more_n_6016856.html

CVSHealth pays CTFK $5mil to push their coercive sales tactics, oops, I mean health message

CVS Health Foundation Commits $5 Million to Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids | CVS Health

Wonder what's next in CVS plan for 2016?

 

[pennysmalls]

Hmmm...perhaps this is why my husbands employer recently dumped CVSCaremark and switched to TrueScripts.

 

[BackDoc]

If CVS only had the same concern for the casualties of prescription as well as OTC medication

 

[catlady60]

CVS rebrands itself as CVSHealth and pharmacies stop selling tobacco in 2014.

CVSCaremark, a prescription drug benefit manager, announces bigger copays for customers who purchase prescriptions at pharmacies that still sell tobacco starting in 2015, which will push customers to buy prescriptions at CVS.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/20/cvs-cigarettes-prescriptions-charge-more_n_6016856.html

CVSHealth pays CTFK $5mil to push their coercive sales tactics, oops, I mean health message

CVS Health Foundation Commits $5 Million to Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids | CVS Health

Wonder what's next in CVS plan for 2016?

Fortunately for me, I have CVS Caremark and my small, independently-owned pharmacy does not sell tobacco. AFAIK, it never did.

 

[DC2]

It just gets more and more disgusting every day.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

Makes me wonder what kind of extra discount BP had to offer them to pull this kind of crap?"

 

[Rickajho]

CVS can go to HE double toothpicks. Transferred everything out at the end of December and have not set foot in a CVS since.

Sis pulled a "me too" and moved her prescriptions elsewhere as well - and she doesn't even smoke or vape.

CVS is just getting too weird about this business model and I'm betting it's going to backfire. Watch the quarterly earnings reports.

 

[LaraC]

I quit patronizing CVS back when they stopped carrying tobacco products. And I wasn't even "smoking"...was vaping exclusively well before that.

Walgreen's and CVS are on opposite corners of a busy 4-lane in my town. I used to stop at one or the other, depending on which way I was traveling. I'm willing to sit in the turn lane as long as it takes, to go to Walgreen's.

This thread back in February 2014:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ling-tobacco-sacrificing-2-billion-sales.html

And this one in August 2014
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...obacco-policy-may-worse-than-you-thought.html

... are what got me thinking about whether I wanted to shop at CVS. I decided I'd shop elsewhere. Haven't set foot in a CVS for the past year. And won't ever.

 

[stevegmu]

I really don't understand the outrage or controversy...

 

[DrMA]

I'm not surprised stevegmu fails once again to understand the underlying discrimination and incitement to hatred in anti-smoker policies...

 

[stevegmu]

I'm not surprised stevegmu fails once again to understand the underlying discrimination and incitement to hatred in anti-smoker policies...

I don't care a bit if a business chooses not to sell tobacco products; not sure why non smokers would, either...

 

[DrMA]

I choose to not support any business that overtly states its hatred for me and others who chose to engage in a lawful activity.

 

[stevegmu]

I'd hardly consider not selling a product hatred, but I guess everyone's idea of hatred differs...

 

[Mrs C]

We have 7 pharms in out little town. I can't tell you when the last time was I set foot in a CVS. Even items on sale can be had cheaper at several other places.

 

[Rickajho]

We have 7 pharms in out little town. I can't tell you when the last time was I set foot in a CVS. Even items on sale can be had cheaper at several other places.

That. The name Consumer VALUE Store is no longer relevant and hasn't been for a long time. Why don't they just get over it and call it what is really is now: Front For Profiteering off Pharma and Insurance. FFPPI - that works. "See what you save at FFPPI!" Not.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

With all my heart and soul, I save a special place for CVS, the bottom of the septic tank.

I’ve written here before how our insurance cut a deal with CVS and we HAVE to use a CVS pharmacy, period. Lucky for us, our little local pharmacy somehow became affiliated or whatever with CVS (a do or die situation for them) so we get to keep our little small town, independently owned store we’ve gone to for 25 years as our pharmacy.

Some generic drugs have gone up over 1,000% (no typo there) recently. My pharmacy would be out $100 a month if they filled one of the prescriptions I have. Understandably, they can’t afford to do that. Today my husband took the prescription to a CVS in the next closest town to us where he works. CVS told him to beat it, they weren’t taking any more new “patients.” Oh hell yeah, CVS really cares about you and me.

So, CVS wants you to pay more if you use a pharmacy that sells tobacco but they refuse to fill your prescription at their own tobacco free, BP .... kissing pharmacy. Makes sense to me.

My husband then went to the pharmacy in Safeway where they filled the prescription with a smile for $8.00 copay. Go figure.

That. The name Consumer VALUE Store is no longer relevant and hasn't been for a long time. Why don't they just get over it and call it what is really is now: Front For Profiteering off Pharma and Insurance. FFPPI - that works. "See what you save at FFPPI!" Not.

No lie there. Hope they drown in their own propaganda.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

I really don't understand the outrage or controversy...

Liar, liar, pants on fire, Steve. I know you are smarted than that.

 

[HazyShades]

I don't care a bit if a business chooses not to sell tobacco products; not sure why non smokers would, either...

I shop at Walgreen's, they still sell ciggies. But CVS stopped around a year and a half ago.
I had the pleasure of speaking with the lady in charge of local customer relations regarding another issue
and inquired about their decision to stop selling cigarettes. Her reply was acceptable to me.
She explained that CVS corporate thought it hypocritical on their part to sell substances known to cause cancer
when they're mainly in the business of selling medicine, including meds for cancer patients.

I asked her if she didn't find it hypocritical for them to sell Coca Cola and other soft drinks and explained to her
the ill effects of drinking Coke. As it turns out she was a big soft drink drinker and
after speaking with me and reading some exposes about Coca Cola's effects as well as their marketing
and manufacturing practices that I sent her she sent me a large gift certificate with a personal note thanking me
for enlightening her about the product and told me she had stopped drinking the stuff.

Of course, she said it was beyond her power to get CVS corporate to stop
selling Coke and other similar soft drinks products because their profit margin is too big.
I mentioned that conceptually selling sugary soft drinks while they also sell diabetes meds
was the same as their position on tobacco products, but I realized as a customer service person
she was in the middle and didn't press the issue.

Hazy

 

[cmantis]

Im not gonna lie when I didnt have insurance CVS helped me get my expensive meds for next to nothing when I explained my situation.

 

[DC2]

I quit patronizing CVS back when they stopped carrying tobacco products. And I wasn't even "smoking"...was vaping exclusively well before that.

Walgreen's and CVS are on opposite corners of a busy 4-lane in my town. I used to stop at one or the other, depending on which way I was traveling. I'm willing to sit in the turn lane as long as it takes, to go to Walgreen's.

That's pretty much word-for-word my exact situation as well.