Talk:CVS Pharmacy/Archives/2014

Merging
CVS_Corporation should definitely be merged into the new CVS/Caremark Corporation. Jeebas62 is correct in stating this should be treated as an aquisition of Caremark RX by CVS. Caremark RX should be treated as a wholly-owned subsidiary in CVS, therefore it should retain its own article.

--Toczko.c 20:32, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Instead of merging this page to the CVS Caremark page, how about renaming this page CVS/pharmacy? We could also remove anything unrelated to the CVS/pharmacy stores, such as any mentions of Pharmacare, Caremark, or anything unrelated to the retail-side of their business.Jeebas62 21:11, 20 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm a bit late to this discussion, but as it stands now, with the merge proposal tag still up, CVS Corporation should definitely stay separate from the merged company, for historical purposes. It was clearly a merger of equals, with doubling of the revenue to about US$75 billion. CVS Caremark is essentially a new company, combined from two, as the name suggests. It's simply not the same thing as CVS, just as its not Caremark. Also, each of the two segments are operated separately, reflecting their prior separate histories. Plus, there are currently three good, clear and unique articles. Merging would only confuse the growth history of one half of the new company.Steven Russell 19:22, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

At this point I think that CVS/pharmacy, CVS/Corporation, and CVS/Caremark should be the same page. The new page should include, chronologically, the evolution of the company from the Melville days, through the acquisitions, to the current entity. Caremark, Advance, PCS, Advance/PCS, and all acquisitions should be like I've seen with all other company pages where they show their individual histories up to, and including being acquired. Having three separate pages makes the reader feel as though they are reading three different book reports on the same book. I'm not very good at the etiquette here, but I'm sure there is a way to make all three titles link to the same page. For those that feel that the stores need their own page, they should have information relegated to a section of the article with any information that would be best served by indicating clearly that it pertains to the stores apart from the company as a whole. Per the comment above mine, I like being able to look up former chains and seeing their individual history before acquisition. I believe that individual histories of all the chains would be burdensome. etctam 06:21 7 September 2011 —Preceding undated comment added 10:20, 7 September 2011 (UTC).

CVS Caremark
I created a page for CVS/Caremark Corporation, check it out.Jeebas62 01:14, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

"CVS and Caremark to Form Premier Pharmacy Services Company in Merger of Equals" It's more of a merger I think... Besides, CVS is technically a larger chain than Caremark, so it would be Caremark merging into CVS instead of the other way around... Jameson L. Tai 16:46, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The Merger with CVS and Caremark has Closed and the new company name is CVS Caremark, more information can be found on http://www.CVSCaremark.com/. I have never mergered two pages together.

The Merger with CVS and Caremark has Closed and the new company name is CVS Caremark, more information can be found on http://www.CVSCaremark.com/. I have never mergered two pages together.

Merger or Acquisition?
Should we treat this as a merger or as an acquisition? In other words, should the page for CVS/Caremark be more or less the current CVS Corporation page with a few minor Caremark-related updates, or should it encompass the histories of both companies? My personal felling is as an acquisition. I know that technically this was an acquisition, but even the company is calling it a merger. Thoughts? Jeebas62 03:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I say aquisition, but Caremark should still get a lot of info on the combined page because its a huge part of the company.

Treat this as a merger, as an employee of the company, I've seen the visual proof of the merger. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.188.16.234 (talk) 18:37, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Caremark was for sale, if you remember. Express Scripts wanted them bad, and was trying to get people on Caremark's board in order to facilitate a sale. Articles at the time were describing how difficult a merger between those two would be, especially with monopoly regulations. Express Scripts was even taking out full page ads to get Caremark shareholders to vote for a sale. CVS incorporated in Delaware to make passing regulatory hurdles in acquiring Caremark easier. As for intercompany operations, it wasn't a traditional merger of two like businesses. It was instead a consolidation of complimentary services. Cardinal Health was the primary distributor to Medicine Shoppe pharmacies, so they bought them, this was similar. Being able to offer so many thousands of local pharmacies nationwide helped increase the customer base, and improve upon the services offered by, Caremark's PBM services. Having access to millions of Caremark's subscribers, and being able to eventually offer similar prices for 90 day prescriptions at local pharmacies, gave CVS an edge over its competitors. Think about the millions who had never been to a CVS to get their new Caremark card in the mail in 2007 saw CVS written right on it. If only one out of a hundred of them stepped into a CVS after getting that card, that equates to millions in annual revenue. There were benefits on either side, and both were very significant in their individual businesses, but that will never change that CVS wrote a check, and Caremark shareholders cashed it. etctam 6:39 7 September 2011

Infobox w/ revenue
Finally added the revenue to the infobox. Must be tired, kept missing a break line tag. I fanybody finds different info, post it. Got this stuff from Hoovers --munboy 03:04, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Mislabeled picture
One of the captions indicates the depicted store is a CVS in Atlanta, but it's a Walgreens!

Picture removed
I removed Image:Cvs4.PNG from the article, for two reasons: --CrazyLegsKC 01:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It wasn't a very good image, and the store in the picture wasn't visible enough from the scale it was at.
 * It wasn't really necessary, since there are three other pictures of CVS stores in the article.

Expansion
Does anybody know when will CVS expand to Puerto Rico?--BoricuaPR 23:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've never heard anything about expansion outside the 50 states.--Captaincoffee 17:21, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

"(1998) The transaction gives CVS its first stores in Michigan and the instant lead in the highly competitive Detroit market." This doesn't seem to be entirely accurate, although the information comes from CVS' own Corporate Info website - CVS stores have been present in Michigan for at least a decade prior to the Arbor Drugs purchase, albeit in the form of the "small health and beauty aids stores in enclosed shopping malls" described in the 1978 bullet.

I remember making many trips to a CVS store in Northland Mall (Southfield, MI) during the early-mid eighties.

141.214.17.5 17:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I concur--for many years around that time, there was a (non-pharmacy) CVS store at Briarwood Mall in Ann Arbor. Guyinypsi (talk) 19:28, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

The first CVS pharmacy in Puerto Rico will open the first half of 2008,can't find the link to the news right now...--BoricuaPR 03:26, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

CVS opening closer than ever By : FRANCES RYAN frances@casiano.com Edition: August 7, 2008 | Volume: 36 | No: 31

Initial investment more than $200 million; plans call for 100 locations in three years; Humacao first in line in ‘08 The on-again, off-again Puerto Rico penetration by Massachusetts-based CVS drugstore chain is on again.

And not only is this time for real, but CARIBBEAN BUSINESS has learned that expansion plans are far bigger than anyone imagined.

The chain’s plan, according to sources at the Puerto Rico Planning Board, calls for the development of 100 CVS drugstore locations around the island during the next three years.

http://www.caribbeanbusinessonline.net/news02.php?nw_id=215&ct_id=17 --BoricuaPR (talk) 03:10, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

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Infobox problems
I tried fixing the "Headquarters" info in the infobox, but it appears blank. Why is this?--Captaincoffee 17:21, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

mowing
hello i own a lawn service in parkersburg wv and i was wondering if you can help me find out how or when you have bids on it. thank you josh miller

If you are trying to get the contract to do landscaping at your local CVS stores you'll need to ask a store manager for the contact info for the regional business office or the contact info for the corporate office. I don't remember which you need to contact, I should know who to call by now, I get at least a half dozen people asking me each year how they can get the contract to plow our store's parking lot.

Eckerd stores in SC, NC, and GA
I see that user Zchris87v had made an update on 11/11/07 & in the edit summary they entered: "Eckerd was dominant in SC, NC, and GA - those stores are now CVS stores." Jean Coutu actually bought these stores & operated them under the Eckerd name until Rite Aid bought them. The vast majority of CVS' Eckerd purchase was in Florida & Texas. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeebas62 (talk • contribs) 02:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Comparison to Walgreens, "largest in the US"
Today anonymous Special:Contributions/64.53.205.142 edited both Walgreens and CVS/pharmacy to claim that Walgreens is larger than CVS, "based on sales, profit, and their 6,237 locations", without any citation. I found refs otherwise, such as Walgreen Co. (WAG) Competitors in Yahoo! Finance. I edited both articles to say "one of the two largest" and provided three references in each article, under a single footnote explaining "Walgreens has approximately the same number of stores as CVS/pharmacy, but a considerably smaller market capitalization and revenue. As of Dec. 29, 2007, CVS Caremark had 6,245 drugstores, in addition to other retail facilities. Walgreens had 6,237 as of Feb. 29, 2008." That note is in the Walgreens article, and the footnote I added to CVS is similar. Please comment here if you disagree, or have other info or advice. Thanks! Colfer2 (talk) 01:33, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Corporate vs. Retail: Store count is easy, but the financials (market cap and revenue) depend on how you consider CVS/pharmacy vs. its parent CVS Caremark. Both CVS and WAG operate large PBMs, etc., which could be heavy weights on their numbers. I think "one of the two largest" is fair, especially since the number of retail stores is very close. Or you could start counting other facilities they operate. :( Colfer2 (talk) 02:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Walgreens doesn't operate a PBM while CVS Caremark does. So that would certainly affect their comparative financial numbers. 63.73.199.69 (talk) 19:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Walgreens also operates a PBM complete with mailorder services. Johnskrb2 (talk) 19:22, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

These statements don't seem to have been evaluated in three years. They should be checked again. -Tombrend (talk) 14:57, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Glide flossers
Find the guy who got rid of the Glide flossers and fore him. They are the only one that works. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.116.254.245 (talk) 18:04, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Glide Flossers are still available at CVS; however this comment does not apply to the Wikipedia article at all. This is not a discussion about the merits/drawbacks of CVS, but an encyclopedia.Spell4yr (talk) 04:08, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Cigarettes
This statement has been recently added to the introduction: "Pharmacists have criticized CVS, and other pharmacies, for selling cigarettes in their general merchandise." I really don't think this belongs in this article as selling cigarettes is not unique or unusual at all.

However, if it does belong in this article, I think it should be moved out of the header and into the "Controversies" section. Johnskrb2 (talk) 22:55, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

I've moved it under "Controversies" Johnskrb2 (talk) 23:02, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

I fail to understand how selling cigarettes is worth mention at all. If a person smokes he will buy his supply somewhere,why not CVS? Nicotine IS a drug after all and it does alleviate a symptom of "craving a cigarette". Additionally,cigarettes are hardly any more dangerous than many of the other drugs sold there.BrianAlex (talk) 19:41, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:31, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

CVS/pharmacy → CVS Pharmacy — Should this be moved to CVS Pharmacy or possibly CVS pharmacy, in accordance with MOS:TRADEMARK?.--Station1 (talk) 19:44, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Suppport MOS:TM -- CVS Pharmacy. 65.93.13.210 (talk) 03:03, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * &Supprt. The present title looks like a subarticle, which we do not do; MOSTRADE is more useful than usual. The normal, gimmick-free spelling would be CVS Pharmacy; it's a proper name. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 05:25, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Support. Straightforward application of MOS:TM. Agree that the capitalised CVS Pharmacy is the correct one to use in this case. Andrewa (talk) 15:39, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Support CVS Pharmacy; this is exactly the sort of case for which WP:MOSTM was written. Powers T 17:22, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Move to CVS Pharmacy.  Skinsmoke (talk) 14:04, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

POV tag
I added the POV tag after reading over on Wikipediocracy that "wanna see really hostile corporate coverage by WP?...It makes CVS look like a giant criminal enterprise." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.29.205.107 (talk) 20:18, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Plan D
Why won't the pharmacy insure potential clients? There would be a huge profits, a new source of revenue. Is it a conflict of interest? Is it a government restriction, unwritten regulation, policy? With alll of what the pubic knows about the government health care, is it truly a savings?

99.7.104.198 (talk) 03:20, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

CVS Health
CVS Caremark is now CVS Health, should mentions in the article reflect that? I changed the information in the right header section, but I'm not sure which mentions in the article should be changed as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.225.10.200 (talk) 15:10, 3 September 2014 (UTC)