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I did always love Rite Aid though Walgreens is good as well. CVS is the only one of that type of store that I routinely avoid. I wonder if Rite Aid and Walgreen
by n0us 11y ago
I did always love Rite Aid though Walgreens is good as well. CVS is the only one of that type of store that I routinely avoid. I wonder if Rite Aid and Walgreens will follow suit in not selling cigarettes anymore.
- _RPM 11y agoCVS at my college never had my drug, so i avoid them in order not have my time wasted.
- itslennysfault 11y agoOut of curiosity... where did you grow up? I grew up in Chicago (where Walgreens is from) and I routinely avoid CVS and shop at Walgreens if I have the choice. My girlfriend is from NY so she never saw Walgreens until her 20s so she avoids Walgreens and goes to CVS.
- n0us 11y agoEast Coast, Virginia. I actually didn't have Rite Aid until highschool but CVS mostly dominates in my hometown which is odd because everyone I know from every socioeconomic background prefers not to shop there.
- bbarn 11y agoOdd. Chicagoan here too.. I find staff at Walgreens to be some of the most miserable employees I run into in the retail sector, whereas CVS employees generally try to be helpful and seem to not hate their life. I think once you cross the white pharmacy curtain, regulatory concerns and negotiated insurance rates pretty much make them exactly the same, but the rest of the store.. I pick CVS since they took over Osco. I was an Osco loyalist too.. and totally pissed when that happened.
- greggman 11y agoYes CVS sucks. I can't put my finger on why exactly. It just feels cheap. Like the paper bags they give me (which I have to pay for directly in California) are so thin as to be nearly unusable. They're like barely thicker than tissue paper making them not reusable. I don't know if that's the only issue that set me off on CVS. Walgreen annoyed me because they started replacing everything with their "NICE" brand which is about the lowest quality possible. That displaced brands of various things that were higher quality. I can't remember what I bought. Might have been cotton swabs (ie q-tips) because they stopped carrying q-tips and they were basically unusable. Plastic sticks that broke. Sticks that poked through the cotton. I can only hope enough people care to either vote with their wallet or complain (I sent them a letter in the hopes to have some influence).
- n0us 11y agoI agree with the cheap feeling. It seems like they either don't have what I'm looking for or they have a cheaper version. When they do have what I want it always seems to be one of the items that didn't pass QC but wasn't to broken/ruined to avoid selling.
- davidf18 11y agoDuane Reade has "NICE" brand as well now. CVS is good for busy NYCers because of self-checkout. Really fast, no lines which is great. None of the other pharmacies have self-checkout and never hire enough clerks during the busy hours when people have time to go.
- untog 11y agoCVS not only feels cheap, it is cheap by comparison to the other drug stores. So I'm happy to go there.
- stephengillie 11y agoWallgreens and Rite-Aid feel too corporate, too removed. Bartell's is much better.
- n0us 11y agoI've never been to one. It feels irrational to put so much interest into particular drug stores but for some reason I refuse not to compromise.
- bbarn 11y agoAs a former smoker, current nicotine gum addict, I'm surprised CVS hasn't advertised its massive price difference on it and nicotine patches in addition to their not selling tobacco. I can buy (generic CVS branded) nicotine gum for half of what Walgreens branded generic goes for, in basically the same form factor, same strength, etc.