Not sure of their current status, but CVS and other drug stores insisted on a mask last year. Perhaps there was no way around it, but now when I need a birthday card or OTC medicine I can pick it up at the grocery store.
I have to believe that part of this is because they’ve driven some customers away.
The current status for CVS is that all non-retail employees were mandated to be vaxxed by 10/31. Those of us who are not are terminated EOD 11/30. They are not mandating for much of the retail side of the business because they cannot keep breathing bodies upright in the stores to keep them open.