Company Profile for CVS
| Founded | Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S. (05/08/1963) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Retail |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
One CVS Dr.
Woonsocket, RI 02895
401-765-1500
Toll free: 1-800-746-7287
Toll free: 1-888-607-4287
Fax: 401-770-6949
E-mail: customercare@cvs.com
www.cvs.com
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Woman Spends Night In Jail For Picking Up Prescription Refill
By Chris Morran on May 7, 2012 12:45 PM
175 Comments
Police in Dallas added insult to injury when they arrested a woman in a leg brace for a shattered knee on charges of forging her painkiller prescription, even though her doctor says no one ever checked with him to see if the 'scrip was legitimate. More »
Whatever This CVS Has Planned Tonight, Count Us Out
By Laura Northrup on April 24, 2012 9:30 AM
41 Comments
It makes sense for a store to place small impulse-buy items on the shelf next to related merchandise. Say, cereal and bananas. Beer and Ping-Pong balls. Cold medicine and tissues. Tampons and chocolate. Those choices all make sense, but this impulse buy found at a New England CVS left us, and tipster Jena, scratching our heads. More »
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Cops Say CVS Employee Planted iPhone In The Bathroom To Film Women
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 10, 2012 4:00 PM
44 Comments
Looking back on it all, perhaps it was a bit suspicious to have a male CVS employee insist on checking out a bathroom to make sure it was "all clear" before a female customer used it. Cops say a man working the pharmacy counter used that excuse to plant an iPhone in between rolls of toilet paper, and subsequently film dozens of women. More »
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CVS Hands Kids Breast Cancer Drugs Instead Of Fluoride Pills
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 5, 2012 11:00 AM
102 Comments
For almost two months, some children in New Jersey were taking breast cancer drugs instead of fluoride pills for their teeth. CVS made a big whoopsie, as parents were picking up tamoxifen unbeknownst to them, and handing it out to their kids at home. More »
If CVS Sells You Something Expired, It's Your Own Damn Fault
By Laura Northrup on January 6, 2012 9:30 AM
113 Comments
Reader Andy noticed this sign in near the breakfast foods in a local CVS. It instructs customers to check the expiration dates of the items they choose before taking them up to the cash register. It's an innovative idea: maybe they're aiming to crowdsource stock rotation. More »
CVS Sells Customer Expired Prepaid Debit Card, Shrugs
By Laura Northrup on January 5, 2012 9:30 AM
63 Comments
Last year, Mike bought a Vanilla Visa prepaid debit card at CVS as a gift for a friend, who promptly forgot that the card existed until about a year later. The card doesn't work, but not because it's been dormant for the last year and had its balance eaten up in fees. No, the problem is that this card expired in July 2010, before it was even purchased. CVS never should have sold him this card. Now neither CVS nor Vanilla Visa will take responsibility for the problem, and are even accusing Mike of being a scammer. More »
Walmart.com Has Slowest Shipping, Costco.com Has Fastest
By Ben Popken on August 3, 2011 5:00 PM
74 Comments
Two days before school starts and you need those pencils and TI-89 calculators, stat? If online shopping is the route you're going, Costco will get it to you faster than Walmart, says a new survey. More »
CVS Refuses To Put ExtraCare Rewards On Your Card Because Super-Long Receipts Are "Exciting" To Customers
By Chris Morran on July 28, 2011 3:15 PM
74 Comments
The CVS ExtraCare program lets customers get Extra Bucks rewards, but instead of putting those rewards on your ExtraCare card, they are printed at the bottom of CVS' infamously long checkout receipts. A year ago, the company's chief marketing officer told L.A. Times reporter David Lazarus that this would soon change and Extra Bucks would be placed directly on your card. But now CVS is saying just the opposite — that it deliberately wants those Bucks on the receipt because it's a real thrill to the consumer. More »
If I Hadn't Checked, CVS Would Have Charged $228 For A $28 Generic
By Ben Popken on June 22, 2011 4:00 PM
92 Comments
Had David's wife not probed closely, she could have ended up paying $228 for generic Fosamax that could have been easily gotten for $24. He's sharing the story as a cautionary tale so that other people who are getting their maintenance prescriptions covered by their employer's insurance don't end up overpaying for generics. More »
You Shall Not Question The Holy CVS Price Scanner
By Laura Northrup on April 12, 2011 4:00 PM
166 Comments
Aaron didn't want to be a jerk, but he also didn't want to pay $5.79 for a twelve-pack of Dr Pepper when the sign on the store shelf clearly said that it was $5.19. Instead of overriding the price and acknowledging the store's own sign, the cashier entered a battle of obstinate wills, from which there emerged no clear victor. More »
