CVS stores are dingy, drab (narrow aisles with stuff piled high) and their prices aren’t that special. Add in a cramped parking lot and it was always a chore to shop there.
I started buying my personal care items at my supermarket, because I get rewards points that don’t involve a strip of mostly useless coupons the length of my car shooting out of the register or that red machine that plays a tune causing everyone to look at me.
And no, I do not want to give you my email or donate to the cause du jour.
Rant ended!
We used to have an excellent local drugstore chain (Longs Drugs). CVS bought them out several years ago, and although they kept the name on the stores to fool people, have basically driven the stores into the ground with all the things you said and more. Especially pathetic was their redoing all the shelves to make the aisles narrower and more difficult to navigate, and yet half the shelves are not empty since they don’t bother to keep them stocked. Pathetic.
Just this morning we went to get a sales item advertised in the morning paper, and they didn’t have any in the store.
“CVS stores are dingy, drab (narrow aisles with stuff piled high) and their prices aren’t that special. Add in a cramped parking lot and it was always a chore to shop there.
And no, I do not want to give you my email or donate to the cause du jour.”
Interesting - it’s the exact opposite with the Walgreen’s and CVS stores in my neighborhood (although there’s nothing special about CVS’s prices either).