New York Attorney General reaches settlement with CVS Caremark over expired products in New York State
CVS Caremark has agreed to pay $875,000 to settle allegations on issues surrounding the sale of expired products in New York State. The settlement comes after New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed suit against CVS in June 2008 for "its pervasive sales of expired products."This is the second time that CVS has agreed to settle charges of selling expired goods in New York. In 2003, after being caught selling expired medicine, CVS signed an "Assurance of Discontinuance" agreement with the state and promised to refrain from selling expired goods. The Attorney General had found expired CVS-brand children's non-aspirin pain reliever, topical anti-infection ointment and ibuprofen tablets. The company paid a $3,500 penalty.
The Attorney General's more recent investigation found 142 CVS stores - or about 60% of those visited - selling products such as baby formula, milk, eggs and over-the-counter drugs past their expiration dates. Attorney General Cuomo, quoted in an article by Dow Jones, explained the terms of the new settlement:
"CVS will pay $875,000 in penalties, costs and fees, and will commit to policies and procedures designed to prevent expired products from being stocked on its shelves, including training for CVS employees...CVS stores in New York will undergo internal compliance checks for expired products, with any store that fails a compliance check paying a $2,500 penalty...[and] the settlement also requires CVS to post notices reminding customers to check expiration dates of over-the-counter drugs, infant formula, milk, and eggs in the aisles in which these products are sold."New York is not the only state where CVS has been caught selling expired goods. In June, Cure CVS called on the Attorneys General of 39 states and the District of Columbia to investigate the company's sale of expired goods in those jurisdictions.
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CVS settles N.Y. charges it sold expired products [Reuters]
NY AG: CVS To Pay $875,000 To End Expired-Products Probe [Dow Jones Newswire via Wall Street Journal]
Statement from New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo
Posted by Alex G. on November 10, 2009, 5:01 PM
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I'm sure that the worst CVS stores out there are the ones represented by the UFCW; wunions just make lazy workers I guess.
Um, not sure what you think this has to do with unions, but if you are trying to blame CVS' chronic disregard for consumer protection and public health laws on its workers you are just exposing yourself as a complete idiot and/or a company shill. CVS doesnt staff its stores properly, train or supervise effectively, oe pay people enough to give a damn. This is a management problem.
And for the record, in New York (where the problems have been the worst) CVS' workers are entirely non-union. Maybe paying people crap and giving them little or no benefits makes them care less about thier jobs and thier customers?
Try again meat head.
UNION is a big business. In the end they only cause problems for their workers. Meat Head that is a fact. Union tactics are to go after the larger employers in the country and undermine them by spewing BS. That is how they sway public oppinion and collect $10 a week from its members. If they unionize a company with one million employees, that means TEN MILLION dollars in the union pockets a week. Once a union is in they can't promise its members any better pay or benefits they only strip their members from the right to ask for a raise or promotion because it can only negotiate and the negotiate for a group so everyone gets the same money even the worst employees. also lousy employees get to keep their jobs because the union backs them. So much for working hard to get ahead a union will always back seniority and screw an up and comer that has what it takes
Sharon, I think you need to get a reality check... it sounds to me like everything you think you know about unions was gleaned from bad 1970's movies. There are hundreds of different unions representing millions of workers at tens of thousands of employers, each with different contracts and union constitutions (including different dues structures and seniority rules). ALL contracts are negotiated agreements between management and thier workers, so if any of what you say is actually true (which most of it is not) then the company's management is just as much to blame (if not more to blame) than the union. The blame everything on the union rap is old and completely dishonest... where is the outrage about the lazy incompetent managers and corporate executives? Give me a break.