It's really shameful and disgusting how bad working conditions have gotten at CVS, especially in the front store.

Corporate should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen. It's bad enough to allow unsafe working conditions in the pharmacy, but the front store is treated like a complete afterthought. Especially should District Leaders and Regional Directors be ashamed for not standing up for their teams and fighting back against corporate and their complete lack of care for those at the store level. 1 or 2 people is NOT a crew!! Understaffing, low wages, unrealistic metrics, unreasonable expectations, ignoring customer complaints about long lines and wait times, where does it end?? If CVS doesn't care about the front store, then get out of the front store business. But DO NOT keep treating the front store like garbage and yesterday's newspaper.

The people at the ground floor are the ones who keep the ship running everyday. Treat them like they matter, because without them, you have nothing.

#Understaffed #UnrealisticExpectations

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I see people shoplifting every time i go in. one girl in the store, she cant stop them. its so ridiculous. the self checkout machines are a joke. people skip scan too. its like free stuff for those who really cant afford to pay. there's one employee, no manager, no security, no nothing! Walmart knows how to run a store, CVS does not! why are they in business if they cant pay people to work there? decisions made by id--tic white men who never step foot in a store themselves.

The self-checkouts that are used to have less workers, are not accurate all the time. The workers have to walk back and forth from the floor to the self-checkout. A line appears at the register next.

@nw Your friend needs to start setting boundaries. CVS is notorious for having ZERO work/life balance. Between that and the horribly low pay, people have to stop letting CVS abuse them.

My friend is a pharmacist at CVS. She is exhausted 24/7. She is alone alot. Instead of her manager stepping in to help he just leaves her to do the job of 3 people. She goes into work sick because they guilt her into going in. Never enough help! Its pathetic. She doesnt get paid well either.

2 days before Christmas, there was one girl working and 20 people in line buying last-minute things like stocking stuffers, wrapping paper, chocolate, etc.. The line literally snaked half way across the store. I thought the cashier was going to cry. And she had to keep stopping her check-out line to fix the self-checkout machines that people were having problems with. It was the worst I've ever seen it. I have no idea why they couldn't have scheduled at least 2 people knowing how busy it gets that time of year. I felt incredibly bad for her. I stopped in at Walgreens and they had 2 happy cashiers plus someone out on the floor, and they were keeping up with the lines without a problem. CVS embarrasses themselves, but they aren't even there to see it.

@hs Yeah, I don't know how CVS corporate gets away with this, and I don't understand why employees take that kind of abuse. It should be illegal to treat people like that.

I go to my local CVS and I'm lucky if I even see a worker on the floor. Everyone does self-checkout. Eventually you'll see an employee, and they are OVERWORKED and ALONE. Literally one person trying to run the whole sh_tshow. I can't believe how bad it's gotten with what seems like one person per shift.

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