Victory in Philadelphia: Expired Goods Bill Becomes Law

Has it ever occurred to anyone that maybe, just maybe it is not the intention of the store staff to sell expired products? Could it possibly be that due to payroll constraints and the large number of daily duties required of the store staff that pulling every item off the shelf and looking to see if it has an expiration date, or a date code that you can decipher, is expired or not might get a lower priority than it should. How about we look into a minimum staffing Bill for pharmacies. Take a look at the root cause. I have worked for Thrifty Drug, Thrifty-Payless, Rite Aid, Longs Drugs and CVS and I can tell you from experience that payroll is always the problem. There needs to be a minimum standard number of hours required to perform these tasks that you are mandating. If the company is required by law to have someone pull expired product and that's all they do then it will never be a problem again.

GET OVER IT. CVS NOW HAS A PROMPTING SYSTEM THAT REQUIRES THE CASHIER TO CHECK THAT A ITEM IS NOT EXPIRED BEFORE IT IS SOLD. MUCH LIKE THE ONE IMPLEMENT FOR SELLING RISK ITEMS.

UNION UNION UNION TRYING TO INFILTRATE ANOTHER RETAILER BY SPEWING VENOM TO GET COMSUMERS AGAINST COMPANIES. UNIONS ATTACK RETAILERS BECAUSE THEY NEED TO BUILD THEIR MEMBERSHIP. THEY ARE THE BUSINESS OUT FOR THEMSELVES AND PEOPLE LIKE ALEX G. ARE ORGANIZERS TRYING TO LINE THEIR OWN POCKETS BY ATTACTING THE BIGGER RETAILER. WALMART WAS THE LAST UNION TARGET NOW ITS CVS BECAUSE IT HAS GROW. THESE ARE TWO RETAIL GIANTS AN UNIONS CAN MAKE BIG $$$$$$ IF THEY CAN CONTROL THEM AND ROB EMPLOYEES OF EASILY 2 HOURS OF PAY A WEEK TO "REPRESENT THEM" AND PROTECT SLACKERS JOBS

Hey check out the pictures comparing low income neighborhoods vs more affluent. what do they prove. Maybe just that the low income neighborhoods have lower work ethics. Maybe its an upbringing issues of the employee pool. Or maybe it is a relection on its customers. I have been a big box retail manager for years, and in the more affluent stores i managed, Customers did not let their childeren use our toy department as toilets but in the lower income areas we needed clean up after kids we caught pooping in the aisle while their parents watched. Many stores reflect the customers that shop there I know of two brand new twin CVS stores that opened on the same day in two extremely different RHODE ISLAND (cvs corporate back yard) communities. 1.5 years later, one store is shopped hard and the other immaculant. Why, combination of employees work ethics and customers respect. CVS executives are constantly comparing the two stores and try to get the standards of the challenged store in the less affluent community back to its origional openning day standards. Regardless of effort there is always litter in the parking lot, the entry way, gum stuck on counters, stolen packaging around the store even with continuous walk through to clean daily within minutes it builds back up. CVS out to get low income communities or the residence have no respect. Stores do reflect the community but not because the company shows less effort most retails through more resources into their challenged stores to maintain them. More employees, more replacement fixtures, cleaning etc. Its the customers that trash the store its like shoveling sh** against the tide.

The State of TN just contracted with CVS Caremark to be the Pharmacy Benefits Manager for state employess. I reside in a rural area in West Tennessee, which is lower income and has a majority African American population. While other areas in the state have a in network 90 maintenance pharmacy through CVS Caremark's PBM plan, this county and two more do not. The closest 90 precription pharmacy is over an hour drive away. (That is an hour there and an hour back). We are told to get to precriptions each time we see the doctor. A 30 precription to fill at a local in network 30 pharmacy and the other to go to CVS Caremark mail order pharmacy. This results in discrimation since we will end up being out $75.00 for 30 days and then $100.00 for 90 days. The larger towns and cities would get this same prescription at a retail store for one co-pay of $100.00. Accessible and fair, I don't think so. I have been trying to get 1 precription straighten out since the plan took affect on July 1st. Each time I talk to their representatives, I get a new story. Only on the 5th phone call was I told that I needed a Prior Authorization. I was told to go to a participating pharmacy to get this 90 prescription to find out a week later that it is Specialty Pharmacy and would be shipped overnight by Fedex. Now it is not a specialty drug but still has to be filled by mail order and will arrive in 2 weeks. I wish someone could sue them for everything they have.