"Do my job for me?"

"No."

That’s a great idea if the goal is to make sure I don’t shop at CVS anymore.

Some stores have started requiring the app to get your prescription. Happened to me. They actually made me install the app before they would fill my Rx. I stopped using that store and went to another neighborhood.

Mentally ill CEO dreams up the perfect dystopia where the customer does everything.

Access would require being logged into the CVS app and connected to the store’s Wi-Fi

Wow. I had to check if the page is the onion

A. Bug an employee even where this system is implemented.

B. If I had no other choice than to use the app: Open the cabinet, take a dozen products, close the cabinet, "decide" against buying some and leave them on an adjacent shelf.

If everyone has a key, what's the point of locking the products? Maybe next they'll have public mag keys available at the entrance?

The point is they know from your app login who opened which case when, so if shit goes missing, they'll know who stole it. That's the point.

Genuine question, do I need to show an ID to make a CVS account? Use a real name? How could they reliably link the digital account to a person?

There's no timestamp for when things go missing, though.

This is dystopian level privacy nightmare.

I guess if they discover shrink, they'll have a log of when it was accessed, and could cross reference camera footage, then track down the account and blacklist it or prosecute... no loss prevention is going to do all this lol.

Hard no to that. As if they are denying people medicine because they want to harvest your information.

Just take the shelf apart. I'm sure it's just some shitty plastic flap with a crappy lock. Cheapest crap they can get.

Depending on how primary care works where you are

tell your doctor too

Sometimes they don't hear about the problems with pharmacies or other places they refer people to. Letting them know means that they can send people elsewhere

I just got a prescription yesterday and that didn't happen so hopefully they don't roll it out everywhere. I would find a different pharmacy.

Should be illegal. But corpos own this country so here we are.

I can’t wait until store shelves are set up like those janky pressure sensitive hotel minibars

They probably just ask for your name and link it to the info they already have about you

If you fill a prescription or use a credit card, that's a very solid link to your identity. The app also probably is collecting all the data it can on you to resell, most of which can be used to fingerprint you through a data broker

They might also require an ID, but all of it is probably more an intimation tactic and stunt for investors than anything else

No way I'd install their app though

Buh bye CVS, I wish I could say it was fun. It's amazing how quickly a corp can become a corpse.