CVS wow

[beacon]

Tonight I was in a CVS for the first time since they stopped selling cigs. They had the whole wall area where the cigs were sold behind the cashiers boarded up with big signs about quitting websites and nurse practitioners for help. Next to this they had a wall display of NRT products of all types: patches, gum, lozenges , all sorts of stuff. ( I almost bought some lozenges because I am a compulsive ex-addict and the display was so appealing. ;) )

 

I told the cashier how I had quit just a year ago but she really did not care as there was a line behind me. I asked her if people were mad that there were no more cigarettes being sold but that pushed her over the edge of her customer service skills so I left smiling on the inside. I used to buy my cigarettes there every day.

[Colleen]

Yeah, here too for about a week now.  They have the NRT's off to the side and big white boards covering where the cigs were.

[Devil Doll]

I used to work in the pharmacy at CVS... I have stories. I am glad that they are no longer selling cigarettes but I am positive that their intentions aren't as noble as they are making it out to be. Still kudos to them. 

[Sazerac]

maybe some guerrilla marketing...slap up a few Quit Train bumper stickers ! 

[beacon]

I posted about quit train on Reddit and Pinterest . I do try to sneak it in

[Nicole Diver]

I posted about quit train on Reddit and Pinterest . I do try to sneak it in

I have here or there when I see a post on FB about not smoking.

Who knows, maybe we are helping someone!

[Sazerac]

y'all helped me !

[BAT]

y'all helped me !

 

Sazerac ... Do you know your name is crazy ass spelled backwards? Southern pronunciation of course. :)

[Sazerac]

:P   I resent  I resemble that remark, Wiley.

spinning vinyl backwards too ? 

Here, The Boswell Sisters for you listening enjoyment,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oqiI0_ws_Y

[SanDar]

Beacon, maybe the cashier is still a smoker and she just didn't want to hear about quitting?

I vaguely recall feeling like that myself  :mellow:

Still glad CVS is no longer selling death sticks. 

[Tink]

what is CVS?

[JustSomeGuy]

what is CVS?

^ ditto

[Devil Doll]

what is CVS?

Tracey it is a pharmacy chain in the US. :)

[natalie_3]

Beacon, maybe the cashier is still a smoker and she just didn't want to hear about quitting?

I vaguely recall feeling like that myself  :mellow:

Still glad CVS is no longer selling death sticks. 

 

Death sticks. Accurate naming. 

[beacon]

what is CVS?

Like Boots the Chemist

[Tink]

holy cow they used to sell  cigarettes in a pharmacy - that was lunacy!

[Paul723]

They still do in the other big chains, CVS is the first one to stop. Addicts are great customers and they are in the business of supplying drugs. Selling cigarettes almost guarantees future business as other health problems will follow. Where I live there is a store selling cigarettes called Liberty Tobacco and on the side of their building they painted "Cheap Smokes", how's that for some dark ironic humor? Tobacco is used to enslave the smoker and the smokes are cheap if the life of the smoker is worthless.