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For years, I have been someone who was a customer of CVS Pharmacy and what I have been hearing come out of their public relations arm lately has been extremely worried.
You see, I’m not the type of person that takes a million medications but there are a couple of things I take to regulate blood pressure. Being someone who spends a good bit of the year traveling, I often have to get refills and things like that from one of a few different CVS locations in the country.
Getting a refill bunny hopped from one location to the other isn’t that hard, it just takes a little bit of time and waiting. This amounts to my wife and I taking a nap in the camper while we wait. Or going to a diner or something.
That being said, some people rely on these pharmacies. For some folks that are of low income, it’s the closest thing to a doctor that they will ever see. I remember plenty of times as a kid going into a CVS and my mom hitting the pharmacist with questions about which cold medicine to give me.
These places are a public service, and despite that they are still a business. It breaks my heart to have to be the one to tell you what their next move is going to be.
CVS has announced that over the next two to three years there are going to be closing close to a thousand stores.
They’re doing the old song and dance about the stores being the ones that aren’t performing up to their financial standard.
There’s a CVS near the small town I grew up in that is supposed to be on this chopping block that is actually the only store of any kind for ten miles.
All closing stores like the rural ones on the list are going to do is make it harder for people in certain parts of the country to get basic essential medicines.
Part of the reason why they are doing this is to somehow get customers to use the website more.
Well, maybe there are a lot of people who don’t use the website for CVS and want to deal with people in a way that we could deal with them before everyone had to have a computer stuck to the side of their head.
A lot of experts are saying that part of the issue behind the closures is that CVS over the years didn’t pay attention to some of these lower-performing stores and try to give them a boost.
It’s a problem CVS created themselves, the calls are coming from inside the house.
