CVS Is Turning Locked Shelves Into an Excuse to Make You Download Its App

[byteonbikes@slrpnk.net]

(me wishing CVS/Rite aid/Walgreens didn't destroy all the mom and pop drug stores)

[wooki@lemmy.world]

Its 2024and you go to Mcdonalds drivethrough. First thing you hear:

Whats your order code

No good morning. Its straight to whats the order code for the app on your phone.

Thankfully you can be equally rude back and place your order.

Next year though? Dont expect the human to stay around for long.

Line mus go up!

[john89@lemmy.ca]

I don’t think local drug stores can afford to be cheaper than a big corporate chain.

Sure they can! It's not like their owners are surviving off of beans and rice, lol.

[lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de]

No, but their owners don't have the bulk buying power to negotiate for better prices with suppliers, the centralised management making the per-store-overhead more efficient, the employment power to push wages, the capital backing to run low prices without risking a bad month leaving a noticeable dent in their liquid assets or even run at a loss for as long as it takes for "lowest price" customers to flock to their stores and drive the local stores out of business.

[slampisko@lemmy.world]

To be fair, if you're buying drugs in the US, you're probably getting ripped off by default

[slumberlust@lemmy.world]

These still exist in Ireland. Argos is a big one.

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

The strategy for these drug stores was to make themselves the closest option in a lot of neighborhoods. It didn't work, but they thought it would.

[absolutechicagodog@lemm.ee]

Has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with shaming people having sex

[xed@lemm.ee]

It’s so hard to find a local one close by

[bradleyuffner@lemmy.world]

Not just refilling prescriptions automatically, but automatically contacting your doctor to request more refills on your behalf once your normal refills refills ran out. I got a phone call from my doctor's office once, asking me why I was trying to go around them to get more of something that I was only supposed to be on for a short time. Freaking CVS made me look like I was drug seeking.

[jamestbagg@lemmy.world]

When I worked at night it was the only place open 24 hours. Now the one by me doesn't even have that going for it.

[lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I used to use a chain one and then I switched to a local one and I pay half as much as I used to.

[threshold_dweller@lemmy.today]

FYI, goodrx was selling your prescription info and PII to marketers.

[broken@lemmy.ml]

Here's a perspective you might not have thought of.
Younger person is already shamed for even buying condoms (the cashier will see them after all) so they steal the condoms instead of buying them. Store owners are sick of losing money so they naturally lock them up.
So yes, it does have something to do with crime.

I'm not here to argue about what you think store owners care about your sex life, I'm just pointing out that there is a valid reason you haven't considered.

[broken@lemmy.ml]

Yeah...this is absurd beyond belief.
The problem is the average consumer out there will not see how this is an issue.

[captainhowdy@lemm.ee]

I went into Walmart yesterday for my annual soap/shampoo/mouthwash bulk purchase as they have the products I like at the best price (in bulk). I got to the section and it was all locked up behind glass...

I turned around and walked right out. No idea where I'm gonna get it from now, but I'm not gonna support that bullshit.

The claims of mass losses due to shoplifting have been proven false multiple times over. These are just racist store policies intended to make you spend more time in their store or to buy online or from mobile apps.

Enshitification keeps on keeping on.

[john89@lemmy.ca]

I haven't given them any of my info.

Do you think walgreens and CVS don't sell your data? Lol.

[threshold_dweller@lemmy.today]

I suppose ignorance is bliss, as they say.

[shawn1122@lemm.ee]

This might be too complicated for the average consumer at CVS, which tends to skew towards an older demographic.

[goatmeal@midwest.social]

Let’s go one step further and make them a gig worker so CVS doesn’t have to pay them for downtime and instead we get to tip