Posted on 08/06/2015 10:40:07 AM PDT by rktman
Last September, CVS became the first major pharmacy chain in America to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in its stores. The drug store chain said it was the right thing to do -- even though it would hurt sales.
Now CVS (CVS) is detailing just how much the tobacco ban is impacting the company. While prescription sales continue to rise, general merchandise sales tumbled nearly 8% last quarter on a same-store basis.
CVS blamed the slump on the tobacco ban. The company said front-store sales would have been flat compared with the year before if they didn't make the change.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Time to replace senior management and the Board of Directors at CVS.
Maybe they should ban alcohol sales, too.
You didn't read the article did you? Here I'll help you: CVS shares have soared 40% over the past year and hit all-time highs just last week.
I have been smoking for many years.
I’ll be 83 in September but I know the smoking will take YEARS off of my life.
Oh well,only the good die young.
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Sorry, guys. This is a moral issue. It makes no sense for a drugstore to be selling a poisonous substance. It is no inconvenience for smokers to go somewhere else to get their nicotine fix, if they really want to waste their money as they try to kill themselves.
Would you consider that CVS was being sanctimonious if they declined to offer on-site abortions? People don’t have to engage in trade which they know is harmful, if they really care about their customers.
I suppose long term CVS wants to be a health care provider for socialized medicine. They already have these minute clinics.
But in the short term they are losers because there is usually a walgreens across the street with lower prices and selling cigs.
Meanwhile, the Walgreens across the street was open 24 hours a day.
Buy anything in a CVS that is not currently on sale and you’re getting SCROOOOOOOD to the wall.
You sound like my grandfather who predicted in the 1970’s that in the future everything in the supermarket would be going under glass, Automat-style, with a coin slot, due to out-of-control shoplifting.
One case does not prove a general rule. Perhaps you have not died yet, but your brain does not seem to be working at optimum level. How do you know how healthy you would be if you had NOT been smoking?
Have you ever, ever had a doctor tell you that your smoking was a good idea?
Old smokers are just the left overs of the smoking population. You are ignoring and discounting the victims. It would be as if a veteran said, The war wasnt really so bad, because I lived through it, and it didnt kill me. You are looking at only the surviving part of the sample.
But if this is the way you think, try to be happy about it, because we all die sometime, and even a fool can make it a few years longer.
In short, there are lots of ways to assert your independence and not be dictated to by others. Smoking is a very bad choice.
Same here.
My grandmother died in her 80’s last month after battling smoking induced COPD for more than a decade. She quit smoking 30 years ago and it didn’t help in the end. That’s not the way I want to check out, that’s for sure.
Didn’t read the article or comments did you? If so did you notice the 40% increase in stock price in the last year??
JC Penneys and jock-sniffing: how’d that work out for you `Jock Penet’?
Their choice not to sell, many people choose not to go there because of it or just because of the anti-nannie state mind set. But, like I said. Their choice.
Your youthful assholemanship is showing. Learn respect for you elders, punk.
Maybe, but in my case, it’s all coming true. As recently as 10 years ago, old codgers were poo-pooing internet shopping and now it’s a mega-billion dollar industry and still growing rapidly. Little old ladies are ordering underwear and darning needles on Amazon.
God blesses me everyday. Since I work on stuff young youngsters don't know anything about, I work by myself. That means I don't have to use any of those nasty source control systems. I make my own rules and get projects finished in a twinkling of an eye. You guys have to fight the tools and each other's ego. I get the last laugh.
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