tommyGunZ
Footballguy
Wow. Hopefully the start of a bigger movement. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/business/cvs-plans-to-end-sales-of-tobacco-products-by-october.html?_r=0
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CVS to stop selling all tobacco products (1 Viewer)
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Homer J Simpson
I don't push
tommyGunZ
Footballguy
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
NCCommish
Footballguy
jamny
Footballguy
They call it raise, not grow?
NCCommish
Footballguy
mquinnjr
Footballguy
Wow, big move. Wonder if the smaller retail stores will follow suit. Looks like cigarette sales are just over 1.5% of sales for CVS. I had a marketing teacher in college tell us that the local chain convenience store in PA/NJ/DE, Wawa, breaks even purely on tobacco sales, with everything else sold in the store pure profit. Tobacco getts people in the door to spend money on other things that make the chain money, as per the business model.
I think it's an honorable move by CVS, but I'm interested to see if smaller chains follow suit, where tobacco sales move the needle (for them) much more significantly than it does for CVS. If they do, do newspaper shops/tobacco specialty shops become big business, just like beer distributors? Time will tell, I guess.
I think it's an honorable move by CVS, but I'm interested to see if smaller chains follow suit, where tobacco sales move the needle (for them) much more significantly than it does for CVS. If they do, do newspaper shops/tobacco specialty shops become big business, just like beer distributors? Time will tell, I guess.
Godsbrother
Footballguy
I am a non-smoker and I don't give a crap whether CVS sells tobacco or not so no 
or 
from me. If people want to kill themselves by smoking I don't care where they buy it.
or from me. If people want to kill themselves by smoking I don't care where they buy it.
SacramentoBob
Footballguy
NCCommish
Footballguy
Which is really what this is about. Cigarette sales are esssentially meaningless to CVS. They will gain more in business for going smoke free than they will lose is the bet I am guessing.
McGarnicle
Footballguy
Always seemed odd to me that they still sold cigarettes. You've got a huge vitamin aisle, minute clinic, pharmacy, and then a wall of cigarettes behind the counter. Whatever.
NCCommish
Footballguy
Probably more than you think. Not only consumption but steady sales can happen right out of an apartment closet. I know it to be a fact.
fantasycurse42
Footballguy Jr.
Good for them... Considering health over profits
SacramentoBob
Footballguy
I'm a non-smoker and support the public smoking bans but I'm certainly not going to start running to CVS now because they did this. 
dgreen
Footballguy
They'll replace the shelf space with something else to sell. Probably something else that we find out causes cancer in 20 years.
tom22406
Footballguy
I would guess candy and alcohol is next on the list to go if that's the caseGood for them... Considering health over profits
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SacramentoBob
Footballguy
Captain Quinoa
Footballguy
Related: Rite Aid to stop selling butter.
mquinnjr
Footballguy
Godsbrother
Footballguy
Not to mention soda, energy drinks and chips.I would guess candy and alcohol is next on the list to go if that's the caseGood for them... Considering health over profits
Homer J Simpson
I don't push
Not to mention soda, energy drinks and chips.I would guess candy and alcohol is next on the list to go if that's the caseGood for them... Considering health over profits
Yeah, they're gonna follow this up by dumping another third of their revenue.
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
NCCommish
Footballguy
They did 100 billion in revenue in 2012. This is a reaction to the merger of Express Scripts and Medco which knocked CVS out of the number one spot for largest pharmacy benefits operator.Not to mention soda, energy drinks and chips.I would guess candy and alcohol is next on the list to go if that's the caseGood for them... Considering health over profits
Yeah, they're gonna follow this up by dumping another third of their revenue.
Baloney Sandwich
Footballguy
CVS Caremark is quickly evolving to being a healthcare provider and looking to move away from being viewed as a retail company. It is probably a mistake to think other pure retailers will follow suit.
pollardsvision
Footballguy
Agreed. It's a relatively small gamble that the benefit to the brand will help more than the loss in sales will hurt. It makes sense.
It's always seemed odd to me that they carried it. I was a tobacco user for over a decade. Going to a pharmacy was always a last resort (selection always terrible).
Gas stations are the bread and butter of course. In fact, without using tobacco, I don't ever step foot inside a gas station and I'm not sure why I ever would.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
GB my local Arabic run party store, where you can not only buy cigs, but bongs, papers, & 1000 different brands of booze.
pollardsvision
Footballguy
And speaking of CVS, that Minute Clinic is awesome.
Caught the flu. Didn't feel like going to the doctor. Went to Minute Clinic, not a single other person waiting, bubbly on-site nurse fired up to actually have a patient got me in and out with filled prescription of Tamiflu in hand in about 30 minutes.
She called 2 days later to see if I was feeling any better.
Caught the flu. Didn't feel like going to the doctor. Went to Minute Clinic, not a single other person waiting, bubbly on-site nurse fired up to actually have a patient got me in and out with filled prescription of Tamiflu in hand in about 30 minutes.
She called 2 days later to see if I was feeling any better.
LinusMarr
Footballguy
I feel the same..I am a non-smoker and I don't give a crap whether CVS sells tobacco or not so no
Shatner!
Footballguy
Osaurus
Footballguy
Warsteinner
Footballguy
They haven't sold dip in years there and smokes are at least $2.00 more/pack. You'd be dumb to buy tobacco at Cvs.
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Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
They also sell booze, candy, and sodas. Not to mention all the worthless homeopathic junk.
Sand
Footballguy
((Morpheus))
Footballguy
Judge Smails
Footballguy
I go to my CVS to pick up prescriptions. 90% of the people in line are Medicare age and are buying horrible generic liquor or cheap wine and a pack of smokes...
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
At least they are contributing to the tax base and not wasting their money on script co-pays.
EYLive
Footballguy
I feel the same way. If my healthcare costs weren't tied to the slobs I wouldn't care what anyone else did.
Sand
Footballguy
Stay with normal, then. Smokers cost less in overall medical care. They get sicker sooner and tend to die quicker than non-smokers. Well, actually they cost more before Medicare age, then they cost less because they die sooner. But smokers do pay more in insurance, so the "before Medicare" is a wash and after is a bonus.
No, because you care about controlling people. You think you know better. You don't. Or maybe you do, but it really isn't your damn business either way.
Believe it or not, the world wouldn't be a better place if you paternalistic ideologues got to wield your ban hammer with impunity.
PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
They're still selling Coke and Doritos in this healthy store, right? .
Sand
Footballguy
Yes, along with candy, homeopathic cures (mostly junk), vitamins (now reported to be useless and likely harmful), energy drinks, etc.
If the continue this the only things they'll be selling are prescriptions, shampoo, first aid, condoms, bread, and milk. Oh, and Hallmark cards. Can't forget about those damn things.
