CVS Health is an Insurance Company PERIOD!!!!! Your FS Retail is DEAD!
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You gotta love when your replies are deleted from here for no reason. No threats. No profanity. Just a point of view that I guess wasn’t popular in the admins world. Censorship at work here at the layoff people.
That’s why I stepped down. Working for free is for the birds.
Nobody should ever work for free. If you have to work over your 45 hours just to get everything done, then corporate is seriously in the wrong! Like this company doesn’t take enough of our lives from us, and now we work for free?? Disgraceful that corporate allows this to go on! I applaud people for being honest, hardworking and dedicated to getting things done and done right, but for anyone who goes beyond 45, that is a failure on the part of corporate. Nobody should work for free.
To the previous poster... Well said! And I will add, that nothing is ever going to change as long as corporate views payroll as the enemy. Corporate views employees as liabilities instead of assets. Corporate views employees as expenses instead of investments. Corporate views payroll as an unnecessary expense. And until these things change, nothing will change.
Paragon winner here of a 150k/4K script store. Just saying.
I believe the hardest stores to run are not low medium or high volume. They are all hard and under funded.
With all the hours cuts, corporate is making it much harder to get everything done. It’s hard to get the work of 4-5 people done with only 2, without k–ling yourselves and running yourself into the ground! Corporate doesn’t understand that.
Why can’t managers run anything but small volume stores ? They seem capable up to 25,000 a week and then crash if sales go higher . Paragon winners all came from low volume stores , great way to run a company, reward the weak
Don't humor the troll Op. Of course there is no content to the post just another person with nothing better to do then try to stir the pot
Previous poster absolutely correct. Working conditions in stores a nightmare. One manager, one cashier, one pharmacist and one tech most times (sometimes no tech or cashier). Manager helping in pharmacy hence not being able to complete all tasks daily. DL and RD pushing Carepass and flu shots down our throats. Customers getting really tired of being asked about Carepass over and over again. And now they want us to "refresh" bathrooms and breakrooms! Who has time to paint and hang pictures?? Depending on these hour cuts coming (and we know the will) this may be my last year.
CVS, Target, Walgreens, Wal-Mart. Maybe retail isn’t entirely dead, but ask employees of those companies how working conditions are for them. Cvs is cutting everything down to the bone. And same for Walgreens, Target, and Walmart, all these companies are doing is cut cut cut. How many pharmacy people have been let go from Walmart? Too many to count! How about all the crazy changes Walmart is doing to the front store? Target... there was an article I read today that was talking about how target has become an unsafe place to work. Apparently target has essentially completely gutted overnight crews and in some stores eliminated them altogether, and back stock rooms have become osha nightmares. Employees at target are being given workloads that are more than one person can handle. And our “beloved” cvs? Well just ask stores that have been cut BELOW 200 hours how things are for them? Or how about the unrealistic and unreasonable targets we are expected to reach here at cvs? Or the crazy workloads or the crazy hours?
Retail might not be dead, but for employees of these retail companies... Retail is dead!
Where are the facts?? All I can find in reference to front store sales is that they keep doing better than expected and have increased. Just because you say something is dead doesn’t make it so 🤦🏻♂️
Wrong. Retail is not dead. Media is painting that picture, but it is not entirely accurate. Target and Walmart are finding ways to drive visits and it is working. Others who refuse to do things differently won’t survive CVS’ retail business being one of them.
It's actually a double-edged sword. Retail in general across the board is dying due mostly to on-line sales. Nowadays you can buy/get just about anything online, no need to go into a store. No long lines at checkout, no 21 questions at the register, and if you pay for express shipping you can have your item in 2 days or less. However, that having been said, a news report, said that retail pharmacies, like cvs, walgreens, etc., have largely been unaffected by the retail apocalypse. That might change in the future, only time will tell. Although our president Mr. Hourican said that cvs will aggressively look at store leases that come up for renewal every year. He said 500 leases come up for renewal every year, and he hinted at many more future store closures when he said we will essentially take a hard look at those stores. Cvs is looking to cut costs and save money ANYWAY they can, and store count and employee headcount are real good ways to pare down costs quickly. Not saying it's the right way, just a good way. As far as aetna goes, cvs has gone ALL-IN on this healthcare model, BUT it appears CVS is gonna run Aetna the "cvs way", (think, major cost cutting, etc.) and in the long run that will make aetna suffer.
Thank you op, finally someone on here with some actual sense. So glad I left when I did. Front store is a dying enterprise.
You’re wrong....
“CVS' retail business also performed better than the Street expected, with same-store sales increasing 3.8%. CVS attributed higher sales in the front of the store to focusing more on health products. In the pharmacy, CVS said selling more expensive branded pr-scrip-ion d–gs helped offset more generic d–gs and lower payments from insurers.”