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i worked tyhere and i hated it also my dad is the night manger there too

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We have several locations nearby, but we don't like shopping there because of the whole "card thing". I wish they would ditch that.

We did go last night because they has something on sale, and they scaned the store card. Too bad the teenage male cashiers were too busy talking and playing with the photo machine as we tried to check out.

QuoteOriginally posted by MBZ321
We have several locations nearby, but we don't like shopping there because of the whole "card thing". I wish they would ditch that.

We did go last night because they has something on sale, and they scaned the store card. Too bad the teenage male cashiers were too busy talking and playing with the photo machine as we tried to check out.

I don't like those cards. There's a sale price but you need the card.  Shaw's often has that too.  So i go to Brooks or Rite Aid.

CVS stores have come a long way.  They have an excellent store brand offer.  They took pains to really remodel the Eckerd stores in Florida.  Normally, I don't like to see aggressive remodels....it's so neat to see vestiges of past retail incarnations in a present store; however, most of the Eckerd stores were eminently forgettable decor-wise.

What does CVS stand for? :huh:

QuoteOriginally posted by storehistoryguy
What does CVS stand for? :huh:

I'm not sure but i think it's :

Care
Value
Service

Consumer Value Stores. (yeah, it doesn't sound very Pharmacy-ish, does it?)

That's terrible, my idea was better than that...

It's like calling Kmart: Consumer discount stores

QuoteOriginally posted by Zayre88
That's terrible, my idea was better than that...

It's like calling Kmart: Consumer discount stores

CDS? How about that can be there slogan. On the commercials it'll sing, "Kmart, The Customer Discount Store!" They can get the same people who sung the Thriftway song! :yup:

CVS SEEMS TO BE Moving a lot of their stores out of strip malls and into bigger stores.

Like in HAverhill Mass, it relocated it's westgate plaza stoer across the street, and in Gilford NH it relocated its store in the Wal-mart plaza nearby in a bigger store, and in Keene it moved its stores in the WEst st plaza and Key Road Plaza and opened ONE Bigger location, hence it relocated 2 locations into one store.

They have closed stores. The old School logo was just the CVS, and thats it.

QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
CVS SEEMS TO BE Moving a lot of their stores out of strip malls and into bigger stores.

Like in HAverhill Mass, it relocated it's westgate plaza stoer across the street, and in Gilford NH it relocated its store in the Wal-mart plaza nearby in a bigger store, and in Keene it moved its stores in the WEst st plaza and Key Road Plaza and opened ONE Bigger location, hence it relocated 2 locations into one store.

They have closed stores. The old School logo was just the CVS, and thats it.

I agree, they really want to have independent stores out of the traditional shopping plazas.  In Seabrook they did just that.  Moved from the Southgate to a new building nearby.

QuoteOriginally posted by Zayre88

QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
CVS SEEMS TO BE Moving a lot of their stores out of strip malls and into bigger stores.

Like in HAverhill Mass, it relocated it's westgate plaza stoer across the street, and in Gilford NH it relocated its store in the Wal-mart plaza nearby in a bigger store, and in Keene it moved its stores in the WEst st plaza and Key Road Plaza and opened ONE Bigger location, hence it relocated 2 locations into one store.


They have closed stores. The old School logo was just the CVS, and thats it.

I agree, they really want to have independent stores out of the traditional shopping plazas.  In Seabrook they did just that.  Moved from the Southgate to a new building nearby.

I know they did that in seabrook. I was there months ago.

In nashua they did this, CVs was in the Westside Plaza (amherst st Rt.101A) and a 5 years ago they relocated across the street. ON DW hwy in Nashua, there were 2 CVS (actually 3 one in the pheasant lane mall as well) in the Royal Ridge plaza and Shaw's plaza, CVS rolled the 2 locatiosn into one by relocating them near Best Buy, hence it closed the 2 and relocated. In Salem NH, It was in the stateline plaza and it relocated 1 plaza north, in the Auto Zoen plaza in some vacant space, but it did not remodel the outterior.

In Chelmsford Mass it did this, it relocated across the street. In Manchester nh CVS was in the Bradlees plaza on south willow st and it moved across the street.


I beleive they started like in Lowell Mass. I saw a small free standing store near the Middlesex plaza Market Basket. IN NORTH CONWAY NH Cvs was in the Northway plaza and relocated up the road in a vacant small outlet plaza.

CVS has closed stores: Steeplegate Mall NAshua, Claremont NH, HOoksett NH (It was in the Kmart plaza and closed 10 years ago), SAlem ROckingham mall (the one with Kohl's),

In falmouth, Milford, and Yarmouth mass and warren RI it has the updated ones, meaning they must have relocated from old spots. RITE AID HAS DONE THE SAME THING CVS IS DOING!

On the company website it lists acess real estate.

the new locations have this look:

QuoteOriginally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
Whats with the backslash the "/" in the logo?


is it a CVS or Pharmacy?

why can't they do it like this?

It is more like a replacement for with - CVS with pharmacy - you will still see a few stores without pharmacies (mostly in mall locations - though they are disappearing along with the malls) that simply have the CVS part.

Why? :huh:

And what does an 8 year old girl have to with boy scouts or buirth control pills?? come on!! It's like rebel without a cause here!!

CVS.

A CVS located on site of a former Hojo restaurant...

QuoteOriginally posted by Zayre88
A CVS located on site of a former Hojo restaurant...

now that i dont like:mad:

lol

Why don't CVS mall locations have pharmacys? They're just CVS.

Many of them date to the days when CVS did not have pharmacy departments.  They were mostly just HBA stores.

QuoteOriginally posted by dooneyt63
Many of them date to the days when CVS did not have pharmacy departments.  They were mostly just HBA stores.

This is correct (and also the fact that, "who is going to go to a mall just to pick up an Rx?"). Notice the fact that almost every mall from the late 90's.....+ does not have a "drug store" in them.

 I have seen CVS ads from the 80's without the /pharmacy that only show health and beauty supplies, candy, film etc.... They were more of a Variety store than a pharmacy until the very late 80's. Only certain (usually the newest) locations had Pharmacy counters (which is why the whole /pharmacy thing came about).

QuoteOriginally posted by dooneyt63
Many of them date to the days when CVS did not have pharmacy departments.  They were mostly just HBA stores.

QuoteOriginally posted by MBZ321
This is correct (and also the fact that, "who is going to go to a mall just to pick up an Rx?"). Notice the fact that almost every mall from the late 90's.....+ does not have a "drug store" in them.

 I have seen CVS ads from the 80's without the /pharmacy that only show health and beauty supplies, candy, film etc.... They were more of a Variety store than a pharmacy until the very late 80's. Only certain (usually the newest) locations had Pharmacy counters (which is why the whole /pharmacy thing came about).

There seems to be a variety of choices/options - for example in the Albany metro area:

The Colonie Center store had a pharmacy (and exterior entrance) until a couple years ago, when they opened a store a couple blocks up Wolf Road - they then closed the pharmacy but kept the store open - this one certainly was a great example of what was noted above about just going in the mall to get an Rx as parking is always hard to find.
The (former) Northway Mall store was always just a CVS (no pharmacy) even though it was in a couple different spots over the years.  
The Latham Circle Mall still has (as far as I know) a Cvs/pharmacy with exterior entrance (and it's one of a few 24 hours stores in the area).  
In Clifton Park they opened a new store on Rt 146 opposite the Clifton Park mall and completely closed the one in the mall.  Same thing with Mohawk Mall (before it was demolished - this mall was unusual in that it had TWO drugstores after the Price Chopper in the mall closed and it's spot was divided into Fays and Paper Cutter).

Ohio.

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Pigeon Forge, Tn.

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These are all over the place now aren't they. A lot of great old landmarks were torn down to build these. I agree the ones in the malls didn't have the pharmacies although the ones that were in shopping plazas usually did and had the pharmacy right on the signage to differentiate.  The world headquarters of CVS is in Woonsocket RI.

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Clinton, IL.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/cvs.html

Chicago, IL.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/cvs.html

Rantoul, IL.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/cvs.html

Roselawn, IN.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/cvs.html

Frankfort, IL

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/cvs.html

Eureka, IL.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/cvs.html

Carlyle, IL.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/cvs.html

Newton, IL.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/cvs.html

Morton, IL.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/cvs.html

Mahomet, IL.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/cvs.html

here is the cvs in secaucus nj

from http://www.siteride.com/srpl/p_snapshot.pl?lm=listing&resbox=1140398380&subNum=50220000126

here is the cvs in smithfield ri

from http://www.kgiproperties.com/properties/location/2/

here is cvs in new bedford mass in fieldstoen marketplace

from http://www.cedarshoppingcenters.com/Fieldstone.htm

The first one is the Hudson (Greenport) store - newly built about a yr, yr and 1/2 ago (if you look at the upper left corner you can see a bit of the Peebles/former Ames).

The 2nd one is the Ravena location - this store was an old Brooks that was sold to Revco then to CVS - but it was further down in the plaza (this is the same plaza with the GU/Shop 'n Save).  This building is slightly separated from the rest of the plaza and sure looks like an old grocery store (maybe the original Grand Union??).

The first shot is the CVS on Delaware in Albany - this is an older store, though I don't know that it was ever anything else.

The second is the store on Delaware Ave in Delmar - about 1/2 mile down from the Delaware Plaza - this is also a smaller store, and they are currently building a newer one on the opposite corner (site of the former Boston Market).

The third is IN the Delaware plaza - this was a Brooks (later Revco) which CVS bought out - i don't believe they ever opersated it as a CVS, though, due to it close proximity to store #2.  Why, I don't know as it is the same size or larger and certainly has better access/parking (#2 is RIGHT on the corner and can only be accessed from driveways on the two roads only 2-5 carlengths from the corner (you can't drive through to the building seen behind it on the left in shot #2).

QuoteOriginally posted by BillyGr


The 2nd one is the Ravena location - this store was an old Brooks that was sold to Revco then to CVS - but it was further down in the plaza (this is the same plaza with the GU/Shop 'n Save).  This building is slightly separated from the rest of the plaza and sure looks like an old grocery store (maybe the original Grand Union??).

That is a former A&P for sure

QuoteOriginally posted by BillyGr
The first shot is the CVS on Delaware in Albany - this is an older store, though I don't know that it was ever anything else.

The second is the store on Delaware Ave in Delmar - about 1/2 mile down from the Delaware Plaza - this is also a smaller store, and they are currently building a newer one on the opposite corner (site of the former Boston Market).

The third is IN the Delaware plaza - this was a Brooks (later Revco) which CVS bought out - i don't believe they ever opersated it as a CVS, though, due to it close proximity to store #2.  Why, I don't know as it is the same size or larger and certainly has better access/parking (#2 is RIGHT on the corner and can only be accessed from driveways on the two roads only 2-5 carlengths from the corner (you can't drive through to the building seen behind it on the left in shot #2).

this is the old CVS lettering. did you know that CVS has moved out of a lot of shopping centers and become mainly freestanding CVS', alot of pharmacies have doen this.

Funny thing is, CVS didn't really start out as a "pharmacy". I have old CVS ads somewhere from the very early 80's (81 or 82) and they were more like a mini-Woolworth's like anything else. If I remember correctly, the ad said, "these stores now featuring a Pharmacy counter..." with a list of locations underneath.

The first two shots are the stores in Pleasant Valley and Poughkeepsie (both on Route 44).  They are both newer stores and very similar.  The first one moved from a plaza store next to the A&P, the 2nd may be completely new.

The 3rd & 4th shots are the stores in Hyde Park (3rd) and Red Hook (4th).  Hyde park is in a plaza and looks like an old A&P (however, the opposite end looks exactly the same but a bit larger, so this may not have been the grocery store but rather decorated to match).  
The Red Hook WAS an A&P (have been to that one when it still was, so I know this one).  Not a huge one, but the only other store in town (at the time) was an IGA, so they didn't need to be.  Closed mid-late 80's as A&P.

5th shot is a new CVS being built next to Latham Circle (assumably to replace the store in the mall).

6th is the store in Glenmont (in the plaza with the former Ames & GU).  

Last is a store in North Troy.  This one was a Revco and stayed open a while as CVS, but has since closed (it was on the far right).  It was a Midland Foods for a while, until they disappeared rather suddenly and is now empty.  I would think this was also a grocery originally (the entire right end with the roof farther forward) - not sure what, though (there is a Price Chopper a few blocks away, so it could have been that, or one of the now-gone chains in the area.

I recently worked at CVS for a year (November 2004 until December 2005). I worked in the CVS in Unionville, Connecticut which is located in the crappiest most dilapidated plaza you've ever seen in a more posh area like Farmington/Unionville. Our store is old school complete with "brillo pad" carpeting, aisle signage, and all (this CVS still has mirrors all around the ceilings of the store).

While I was working there, we finally got a new photo counter which was nice but the store was very compact and old-looking. I was told the store was built in the early 80's and that we were seeking a relocation for a long time.

I soon found out the company wasn't going to give us our renovations or a stand-alone store, especially since they were building a giant, new one down in the neighboring town Burlington (as we speak now, it's done). Those who've ever worked for CVS knows the company does not like to operate in strip malls anymore. After they acquired southern pharmacy chain, Eckerd, they starting booming with a modern new renovation plan most of the stores are adhering to today.

Anyway, I decided to leave because of the lousy pay. I worked there for a year and did plenty of favors for them and they wouldn't give me a raise. Did I forget to mention we had morons running the store for over half a year?

(Sing that - it sounds like a commercial).

1st shot is the Saugerties store on Route 32/212 - a newer free standing one that moved from a location in the plaza (I believe).

2nd shot is the Albany store on Madison Avenue - this is an older store which they wanted to replace by demolishing the Madison theater next door - but that didn't go over well with the community.

3rd shot is the store on Western Ave in Albany.  It is just below UAlbany and is free standing, but older (no drive thru) and has a small parking area.

4th is the Stuyvesant Plaza store (corner of Western & Fuller) - this store was a Revco (and Brooks prior to that) that became CVS when they bought the Revco chain.

5th is the store at the corner of Western & 155 - this building used to be a catalog showroom (Boardman's) and was empty for a while when CVS opened.  One of the new Walgreens being built is on the opposite corner (and a RiteAid and Eckerd are within a block radius).

6th is the new store on Wolf Road - this was built a year or two ago and (partially) replaced the Colonie Center location (they kept the store there but closed the pharmacy).

7th is the store on Central Ave in Albany - in the Hannford plaza - smaller older plaza store.

8th is the store in Lenox (MA) on Route 7/20 - next to the (Former) Ames and Price Chopper - another older store.

9th is the (New) Pittsfield (MA) store - built a year or so ago and on the site that had been proposed for a stadium for the minor league team in the area.  Replaced an older store on the main street.

Last is the store in North Adams (MA) - in the plaza with Big Y.  Again, an older store.

This is a smallish CVS store in Margaretville (NY) on Route 28 between Kingston and Oneonta.  It is attached to the A&P (those are A&P carts you see).

This is an unusual looking CVS in Scotia, NY on Route 5.

It was built as a Revco (one of very few, if any others at all, in this area they built new) not too long before they were bought out by CVS.

Here's a CVS in the Steelebrook Plaza right outside downtown Waterbury on Rt. 73. This appears to be a very old, rare, phasing-out strip mall version of the store.

This looks like a red version of the one I used to work at in Unionville, Connecticut. This is one of the few strip mall stores as CVS has been building and renovating like crazy.

The inside of the store was somewhat distressed with some missing ceiling tiles and plenty of leaky roofs.

This CVS conforms to their renovated store look but only masks the oldness of the store's shell.

QuoteOriginally posted by XISMZERO
This CVS conforms to their renovated store look but only masks the oldness of the store's shell.

I agree with you about the insides. this is old school isles.. maybe they just ment the outside.

building that looks like the original CVs in glastonbury / east hartford ct

QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
building that looks like the original CVs in glastonbury / east hartford ct

cvs in glastonbury ct / east hartford

cvs in glastonbury ct

cvs in west hartford ct on rt. 44

CVS in unionville ct

CVS in bristol CT.

cvs in west hartford ct near the old Ames / caldor.

cvs in plainville ct

CVS in new britain CT in the stop and shop plaza

cvs in southington ct in shaw's plaza

cvs in downtown southington ct

cvs in watertown ct near the waterbury line

QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
cvs in watertown ct near the waterbury line

watertown ct

cvs in newtown CT

cvs in brookfield Ct in the tj maxx plaza

cvs in peekskill ny near stop and shop

cvs in yorktown heights ny

cvs in mt. kisco ny (mount kisco)

cvs ridgefield CT

QuoteOriginally posted by d_fife
cvs in mt. kisco ny (mount kisco)

my dads teh night manger there has been since 1999

cvs east hartford ct in the center of town on the other side of the hwy as stop and shop / burlington coat

the CVS here in rocky hill ct looks like a rite aid

cvs middletown ct on the way to stop and shop

cvs meriden ct around all the restuarants on east main st

meriden ct outer part of town

cvs wallingford ct

cvs hamden ct

hartford ct cvs near the wethersfield line

cvs Mahopac ny in kmart plaza.

CVS in south portland me

CVS in cape elizebeth (or cape elizabeth) me

CVS in laconia / belmont nh

cvs gilford nh (old one and current one that opened november 2003)

cvs current one in gilford nh

cvs lewiston me

cvs in auburn me

cvs bath me

the one in the latham ny latham circle mall

The CVS in Latham Circle Mall is now closed. It moved to a new location down the street.

Here is the now under construction CVS store in Kingston on the site of the former Costello Motor Court. CVS is moving from their current location in Kings Mall to this one. Also, besides the CVS, a new Dunkin Donuts(Which is now open), Taco Bell, and a Hampton Inn will occupy the site. CVS also operates a non pharmacy store inside the Hudson Valley Mall.

A new CVS pharmacy in Waterville, ME.

CVS at EMERALD SQUARE / MALL; NORTH ATTLEBORO, MA.

CVS is shutting down many of their mall stores because of their lack of pharmacy and the company's ambition to have larger off-site stores that have been popping up everywhere (like Walgreens).

This one had no evidence of impending closure...

CVS at WESTFIELD MERIDEN / MALL (formerly MERIDEN SQUARE); MERIDEN, CONN.

Store is now closed/on January 6. Picture taken on January 4, 2008.

CVS in UNIONVILLE (village of FARMINGTON), CT.

I worked here from November 2004-December 2005. This store is one of the most neglected stores around which is falling apart, leaking inside. The plaza itself is also a dump, but is undergoing renovations -- none of which will seek to improve this portion of it.

CVS in WATERBURY-OAKVILLE, CT line.

It's another neglected old store. This was taken in July 2006.

CVS Caremark to Purchase Longs Drug for $2.7 Billion (Update2)

By Lauren Coleman-Lochner

Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- CVS Caremark Corp., the second- biggest U.S. drugstore chain, said it would buy Longs Drug Stores Corp. for $2.7 billion to expand its reach in the western U.S.

Longs Drug investors will receive $71.50 a share, the companies said today in a statement. That's 32 percent more than Longs Drug closed at in New York trading before the announcement.

CVS Chief Financial Officer David Rickard said in a 2006 interview that the drugstore chain wanted to expand its presence on the West Coast and was open to doing so through acquisitions. Longs Drug has 521 locations in California, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona.

William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management LP said last week that it took an 8.8 percent stake in Longs Drug.

CVS, based in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, fell 49 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $38.05 at 4:15 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading before the announcement. The shares have declined 4.3 percent this year. Longs Drug, based in Walnut Creek, California, dropped $1.07, or 1.9 percent, to $54.04.

Longs ``has been going through a lot of improvement over the past few years,'' CVS's Rickard said today in a phone interview. Longs centralized systems and decision-making, and now ``better fits our way of doing business,'' he said.

CVS doesn't expect to have to close any stores for antitrust reasons, Rickard said. It will expand health and beauty merchandise in the Longs stores, he said.

The deal includes about $200 million in debt, he said.

Bridge Loan

CVS was advised by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Deutsche AG. The firms also provided a $1.5 billion bridge loan commitment. J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. advised Longs.

``It's a bit surprising, but I think you're seeing consolidation in general, and it makes some sense,'' David Abella, a portfolio manager at Rochdale Investment Management in New York, said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio today. ``I think the environment for drugstores is a little tougher.''

Rochdale manages $2.5 billion including about 181,000 CVS shares as of June 30.

QuoteOriginally posted by BillyGr
The first one is the Hudson (Greenport) store - newly built about a yr, yr and 1/2 ago (if you look at the upper left corner you can see a bit of the Peebles/former Ames).

The 2nd one is the Ravena location - this store was an old Brooks that was sold to Revco then to CVS - but it was further down in the plaza (this is the same plaza with the GU/Shop 'n Save).  This building is slightly separated from the rest of the plaza and sure looks like an old grocery store (maybe the original Grand Union??).

The second photo actually is a former A&P Supermarket's Centennial/Colonial design.

Here  is a picture of a CVS/pharmacy, in Center City Philadelphia, that started out as a movie palace.  this building first opened in 1921 as "Aldine Theatre" by Jules E. Mastbaum's Stanley Company of America.  this theatre closed in late 1953 by Stanley Warner Theatres (who acquired Stanley Company of America in 1930).

In 1954, this theatre reopened as "Viking" Theatre", then closed in the 1960's.  It then reopened in mid 1960's by Rugoff (Cinema 5) Theatres as "Cinema 19 Theatre".

In 1974, Sam Shapiro's Sameric Theatres acquired the Cinema 19 Theatre, twinned it, and renamed to "Sam's Place Twin Theatre".  In the mid 1990's United Artists Theatres (who acquired Sameric Theatres in 1988) closed this theatre.  CVS acquired the building and opened there.

Does anyone know of a CVS that actually closed and did not move? There was a fairly new CVS in my area that appears to have closed and is now Advance Auto Parts. :no: :flaming:
And many former Acme stores have become CVS it seems.
The ones in Rosemont, Broomall, Folsom, and Conshohocken PA are all former Acme stores (very old ones). There are more which I forget right now.

QuoteOriginally posted by Mobil
Does anyone know of a CVS that actually closed and did not move? There was a fairly new CVS in my area that appears to have closed and is now Advance Auto Parts.

Where is that CVS. Did Advance remodel it or does it still look like a typical CVS store.

QuoteOriginally posted by videogamer75

QuoteOriginally posted by Mobil
Does anyone know of a CVS that actually closed and did not move? There was a fairly new CVS in my area that appears to have closed and is now Advance Auto Parts.

Where is that CVS. Did Advance remodel it or does it still look like a typical CVS store.

It still looks just like the top photo here. Address: 6600 Market St, Upper Darby, PA‎ (try Street View)

That's strange to see that they would close a freestanding CVS location and didn't even move. Business must've been real bad there.

CVS in Rosemont, PA, a former Acme.

CVS in Paoli PA, a former A&P.

They just tore down a former Exxon that was abandoned for years to built yet another CVS.

QuoteOriginally posted by Zayre88
That's terrible, my idea was better than that...

It's like calling Kmart: Consumer discount stores

Well, the current CEO says that he now considers CVS to stand for Customer, Value, and Service. So you were kind of right.

CVS's newest design:

Yesterday my prescription at Walgreens was transferred to CVS, and this was the worst CVS in the area. A very dilapidated store. Horrible customer service as well.

QuoteOriginally posted by Mobil
CVS's newest design:

That is very nice. They should buy that empty lot on Route 10 next to Outback and build a new store there to replace the one in the Southington Plaza.

Interesting how CVS has changed their store designs so much over the years but not their logo.

Longs is NOT becoming CVS, just owned by them now

That's good. I like how Long's is a regional chain, but manages to get lots of customers because of their good service and good values. :)

QuoteOriginally posted by Mervyns
Longs is NOT becoming CVS, just owned by them now

Actually, they are (except in Hawaii)
 "All the Longs stores will change their names to CVS, except in Hawaii. CVS management says the store is so popular in The Pineapple State that they decided to keep the name the same."
http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/38829182.html

That's great!!!! :)

Eckerd has mall locations with pharmacies, like the one at King of Prussia. CVS built their mall locations after their regular stores all had pharmacies, don't believe what you read, the "/pharmacy" is nothing new.

I remember that there were times when Walgreens, CVS, and Eckerd all had a large amount of mall locations. Nowadays with them constantly moving out, it seems like you can't even find a place to buy a quick snack, or any other convenient items at the mall!

QuoteOriginally posted by TheRetroNickFan
I remember that there were times when Walgreens, CVS, and Eckerd all had a large amount of mall locations. Nowadays with them constantly moving out, it seems like you can't even find a place to buy a quick snack, or any other convenient items at the mall!  

I miss the Eckerd in the mall I work at, it left cause the mall highered its rent, and then they moved the stores next to it to other vacant spots in the mall and tore down the couple of stores to build a barnes & noble. (Eckered closed about a year before they tore down the space)

This is sad... first CVS bought Eckerd, then Sav-on/Osco, now Longs Drugs. They seem to think they are above the law.

QuoteOriginally posted by Mobil
CVS's newest design:

Hey "Mobil"....

I don't mind you using the picture of CVS I took but at least give me photo credit.  That pic is right there on page 4.

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QuoteOriginally posted by dooneyt63
Many of them date to the days when CVS did not have pharmacy departments.  They were mostly just HBA stores.

This is correct (and also the fact that, "who is going to go to a mall just to pick up an Rx?"). Notice the fact that almost every mall from the late 90's.....+ does not have a "drug store" in them.

 I have seen CVS ads from the 80's without the /pharmacy that only show health and beauty supplies, candy, film etc.... They were more of a Variety store than a pharmacy until the very late 80's. Only certain (usually the newest) locations had Pharmacy counters (which is why the whole /pharmacy thing came about).

No, actually all CVSs had pharmacies starting in 1969, when they were acquired by Melville Corporation. The mall stores without pharmacies were introduced in 1978.

QuoteOriginally posted by EddieJ1984

QuoteOriginally posted by TheRetroNickFan
I remember that there were times when Walgreens, CVS, and Eckerd all had a large amount of mall locations. Nowadays with them constantly moving out, it seems like you can't even find a place to buy a quick snack, or any other convenient items at the mall!  

I miss the Eckerd in the mall I work at, it left cause the mall highered its rent, and then they moved the stores next to it to other vacant spots in the mall and tore down the couple of stores to build a barnes & noble. (Eckered closed about a year before they tore down the space)

The Eckerd (Thrift) Drug location at Neshaminy Mall closed right around the same time that Rite Aid acquired Brooks/Eckerd.

One CVS in my area opened in 1981, and seems to be one of a kind in this area. It has never been remodeled.

QuoteOriginally posted by nims57
One CVS in my area opened in 1981, and seems to be one of a kind in this area. It has never been remodeled.

Your area is?

Great Falls, MT formerly Skaggs, Osco

They're clearing what appears to be old farm land on College Highway (Route 202) in Southwick, Massachusetts next to the Big Y and Job Lot (former AMES) to build a CVS.

Heres the one on DW Highway in Nashua across the street a new Walgreens
<a href="http://s621.photobucket.com/albums/tt295/jmcnamara96/?action=view&current=JoesPictures1194.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt295/jmcnamara96/JoesPictures1194.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Heres The Lowell Mass one
The first CVS ever was established in Downtown Lowell in 1963. Today, the company does about $25 billion in sales in over 5,000 stores in America - and it all started as a "Consumer Value Store" on Merrimack Street in Lowell. CVS still maintains a store on Merrimack Street.

Is that from the CVS website?

Quote from: nims57 on March 08, 2010, 04:50:39 PM
Is that from the CVS website?

No its on the Facebook page You Know your from Lowell Mass When in the photos i found the rest on Wikiepedia

There's a really cool looking CVS on East Main Street in Meriden, CT down the street from a modern normal looking store. I think it's rather obvious that it was something else. Anyone know what it was? Sorry no pictures, but I can't take pictures while driving, watching traffic and my GPS at the same time.

P.S. Shouldn't this thread be re-named CVS?

They're planning on ripping down the popular Silo Restaurant in Farmington, Connecticut for a CVS. I suppose it's gonna replace the existing store 1/4 mile down the road in Post Office Square (the plaza where Highland Park Market is).

The coupons SUCK lately.

A 3rd CVS is being built in Bristol, CT. It is expected to open in October. It will be located at the corner of Mountain Road and Middle Street opposite ALDI.

http://bristolpress.com/articles/2011/05/19/news/doc4dd4705e2043b728503630.txt

Years ago - we're talking close to 13 years now there were 3 CVS's in Bristol. One in the Bristol Plaza (Stop & Shop Plaza), one in Bristol Farm's Plaza (the plaza where Big Lots is now), and one downtown across from The Mall at Bristol Centre.

Around '99 a new CVS complete with Drive-thru opened on Farmington Avenue next to the Dunkin' Donuts on the corner of MIX and Farmington Ave. That replaced the CVS's in both Bristol Plaza and Bristol Farm's Plaza.

The one at Stop & Shop Plaza became Dollar Tree. The one in Big Lot's Plaza sat vacant for years before becoming a 2nd Family Dollar location in 2004. They closed in 2009 and it's now an Aaron's Rental Center.


Side note: They really need to build a new one on Queen Street in Southington. The one next to Shoprite is small, old, and run-down.

I've done some research, and compiled a list of non-pharmacy CVS stores in the northeastern states, as of August 2011.  While the mall stores are dwindling there are still quite a few downtown stores that seem to not be going anywhere.  The most are in Massachusetts, which makes sense as that's where they started (the first pharmacy stores were 67 and 68, around 1968).  There may be some that I've missed, since I'm primarily using their store locator to find them.

DC:
57, 1716 G St NW (60s CVS, pre-Peoples acquisition store near White House)
283, 500 C St NW (70s CVS, pre Peoples acquisition)
2039, 2819 M St NW (90s store, post Peoples store in Georgetown)
2872, 1300 Connecticut Ave NW (00s store near Dupont Circle)
6069, 1101 Connecticut Ave NW (late 00s store)
8359, 1201 Maryland Ave SW (late 00s store near riverfront)

CT:
512, Stamford - Ridgeview Plaza (early 80s mall store)
812, Danbury - Danbury Fair Mall (mid 80s mall store)

MA:
31, Braintree - South Shore Plaza (mid 60s mall store)
50, Hyannis - Cape Cod Mall (60s mall store)
186, Natick - Natick Mall (early 70s mall store)
391, Newton - 241 Needham St (late 70s shopping center; paired with Marshall's and a former KB Toys, all of which were once part of the Melville Corp.)
480, Boston, 730 Commonwealth (early 80s downtown)
599, Leominster - Searstown Mall (early 80s mall)
1262, Cambridge - 29 JFK (early 90s downtown across from Harvard)
1878, Chatham - 637 Main St (early 90s former Thayer Drug)
1943, Saugus - Square One Mall (mid 90s mall)

NH:
823, Manchester - 947 Elm St (mid 80s downtown)
1290, Salem - Mall At Rockingham Park (early 90s mall)

NJ:
682, Ship Bottom - 702 Long Beach Blvd (early 80s freestanding shore store; previously had pharmacy)
991, Jersey City, Newport Centre Mall (late 80s mall)
1137, Jersey City, 34 Exchange Place (early 90s downtown)
1187, Brigantine, 901 W. Brigantine Ave (early 90s shopping center shore store; previously had pharmacy)

NY:
239, Johnson City - Oakdale Mall (mid 70s mall store)
354, Syracuse - 700 S. Crouse (late 70s downtown)
420, Albany - Colonie Center (late 70s mall; possible former Clinton Drug which was acquired in 1978)
721, Albany - Crossgates Mall (mid 80s mall store)
1227, Amherst - 520 Lee Rd (early 90s store on Buffalo State campus)
5017, Bath - 36 Liberty St (downtown former Brooks/Revco, acquired in 1997)

PA:
198, Media - Granite Run Mall (mid 70s mall store)
1595, Wilkes-Barre - Wyoming Valley Mall (mall; former Rea & Derick acquired in 1991)
1926, State College - 138 E. Beaver Ave (early 90s downtown)
4120, Pittsburgh - 610 Wood Ave (downtown former Revco acquired in 1997)
5105, Pittsburgh - 226 6th Ave (downtown former Revco)

RI:
13, Providence - 70 Kennedy Plaza (mid 60s downtown)
827, Providence - 291 Thayer St (mid 80s downtown)
868, S. Kingston - 99 Fortin Rd (mid 80s store on the University of Rhode Island campus)


VA:
2013, Fairfax - Fair Oaks Mall (mid 90s mall store)

There's also a few scattered stores I've found in other states, but haven't been able to research further yet:

5927, Columbus OH - 1634 Neil Ave (former Revco; downtown)
3696, Orlando, FL - Florida Mall (former Eckerd; mall store)
5129, Miami, FL - Dadeland Mall (former Eckerd; mall store)
7563, San Antonio, TX - 211 Losoya St (former Eckerd; downtown store along Riverwalk)
7606, Austin, TX - 2222 Guadalupe (former Eckerd; downtown across from University of Texas)

I'm sure over the coming years many of these may still close, so I'll keep an eye out every so often.

Quote from: JoshAustin610 on August 28, 2011, 01:22:19 AM
NY:
420, Albany - Colonie Center (late 70s mall; possible former Clinton Drug which was acquired in 1978)
721, Albany - Crossgates Mall (mid 80s mall store)

The Colonie Center store DID have a pharmacy until a few years back, when they opened a free standing store at Wolf Road & Sand Creek Rd, which is only a couple blocks up from the mall.  I assume they just transferred the prescriptions to the new store (and this makes lots of sense, since it would be tough to find parking @ the mall just to run in for a prescription).  At that time, they blocked off the rear part of the store (and the direct to parking lot door).

As far as I know, Crossgates never had a pharmacy (being a later location, they had probably realized by then that the pharmacy didn't work well in a mall).

Talk about bad luck. The new CVS at the corner of Middle Street and Mountain Road in Bristol, CT opened on October 1st, only to shut down on October 29th due to a massive power failure due from a freak October blizzard. That area got is power back around 8PM November 3rd. They haven't gotten any of their refrigerated/frozen food items back yet except for milk.

The one next to Shoprite on Queen Street in Southington was operating Cash Only 8AM-5PM daily Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Power was restored on Friday November 4th.

CVS is reportedly buying property on the Corner of Route 6 and North Main Street in Bristol, Connecticut to build a new store. It's across from the Northside Square where there is an ancient Rite Aid store. Currently the property CVS is supposed to be buying is a vacant restaurant (3 have failed since the original restaurant there closed when the owners retired) a building housing a Medical Supply Store, a barber shop, and a Spanish Jahova Witness Church (which just opened), and a vacant building that was once Jiffy Lube. Now has Enterprise Rent a Car in part of the space.

This will replace the store at 59 North Main Street across from the old Mall-at-Bristol Centre.

Quote from: Marc B on April 20, 2011, 10:40:45 PM
They're planning on ripping down the popular Silo Restaurant in Farmington, Connecticut for a CVS. I suppose it's gonna replace the existing store 1/4 mile down the road in Post Office Square (the plaza where Highland Park Market is).

Silo Restaurant closed at the end of December 2011. I would assume once give the approval construction of the CVS will begin this spring.

CVS opened a brand new store at 895 North Colony Road in Wallingford, CT. This marks the first time Wallingford has had a CVS since 2003. Recently a slew of other new businesses have opened on Route 5 in Wallingford. From the picture that was in today's Meriden Record-Journal the store looks exactly like the one that opened on the corner of Middle Street and Mountain Road in October.

CVS just opened it's new store in Norwich, CT.  Right down the street from the old one.  It appears CVS is getting away from the strip mall style formats and going to its own free-standing buildings.  They are much larger and open, and look really nice as well.

The new CVS now has a drive-thru which the older strip mall style store did not, and also just happened to open right across the street from Walgreens.  Which, I'm sure is no coincidence that Wallgreens remodeled the store right after the announcement that CVS was breaking ground across the street.

I have to wonder if the property where the Beijing Chinese Restaurant used to be on Queen Street in Southington, CT (next to 7-Eleven) would be big enough for a CVS if they tore down the building. CVS has been talking about moving out of Shoprite Plaza for years going back to when the Shoprite was Shaw's.

Surprise! The former Blockbuster at 200 Main Street in Southington used to be a CVS. Saw a nice labelscar on the building today. Forgot to snap a picture. CVS is now located in a free-standing building at the corner of Main Street and Main Street. I know that sounds a strange but it's true. Route 10 Queen Street turns into Route 10 North Main Street at the intersection of Flanders. Then Route 10 North Main Street becomes Route 10 Main Street at the corner of Berlin Ave.  You come to a fork in the road. If you go straight it's Old Turnpike Road, but Old Turnpike Road is not Route 10. Route 10 Main Street curves right from Main Street.

In Philadelphia, there is a CVS/pharmacy that started out as a movie theatre, called Felt's Aldine Theatre, at the Southeast corner of 19th & Chestnut Street.  Over the yerars, this theatre has had many names: Stanley Warner's Aldine Theatre; Viking Theatre; Rugoff's/Cinema 5's Cinema 19 Theatre; and Sameric/United Artists Sam's Place Twin Theatre.

The CVS in Newington, CT recieved new window decals. It looks nice, compared to the white boards they had. Hopefully they will paint the building especially near the CVS signs, as they are worn and dirty.

In Middletown CT, they built the new CVS literally inches away from the old one.  Knocked down the former Hollywood Video and built a much larger, newer style building.  Interested to see how they are going to go about knocking the old building down.

Our local CVS/pharmacy store in Sheffield Village, Ohio, closed this past February 3rd with very little fanfare, and nothing indicating a closure outside of a little yellow note on the front door. I saw that it was closed a couple of days ago, and went to check for myself tonight. The lights are on inside, and 99% of the fixtures/decor appear to be intact. It's as if they just closed the doors one day and didn't look back. (Yes, all of the merchandise inside is gone, but there wasn't any sort of yellow-banner STORE CLOSING sale, so I presume it was transferred to other stores.)

This is a picture of the CVS in the plaza, which opened as a Revco drugstore after relocating from a smaller store across the street, about the same time that Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop (now Giant Eagle) opened their store, seen on the left side of this picture:

(http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/4658/cvssheffield.jpg)

Further bad news for the plaza, as the Dollar Tree (which started out its life as an American Greetings store and, in the space behind that, a Sips & Nibbles eatery) recently moved up the street into a portion of the old Carpet & Tile Liquidators building. I don't expect the CVS to be empty for long, since Giant Eagle could move forward - like they did with their Amherst, OH location - and knock down the wall and expand the Pharmacy/Drugstore into the vacated space. We don't have a lot of other drugstore options - there's a large Drug Mart across the street, and I doubt Rite Aid or Walgreens would look into an in-plaza location without any drive-thru access - so that kind of limits the possibilities for what it could become.

The plaza's history goes like this:

1: Rini-Rego Stop-n-Shop / moved from a smaller store across the street, which is now subdivided into a Discount Drug Mart and a spot that's been vacant for years; became Giant Eagle after the buyout; has had 4 different banks in-store; GetGo Gas Station built in adjacent parking lot area near (5) in 2008(?)
2: Revco / moved from a smaller store across the street (next to Rini-Rego), which is now a Dollar General; became CVS/pharmacy after the buyout; now vacant as of February 3, 2013
3: HC3 Hair Colour Superstore Salon / opened as a new store; now SVS Vision
4: Broadway Video: relocated from a smaller store across the street, which was a karate studio and is now "Ctrl-Alt-Elite Gaming"; after BV closed, sat empty for years before recently becoming a Verizon Wireless
5: Just For You Cards & Gifts (corner anchor) / American Greetings store; closed and sat empty for a while; became Dollar Tree after absorbing (6) into more sales floor space and back-room storage; now vacant as of mid-January 2013 with Dollar Tree relocating
6: Sips & Nibbles / small eatery; closed after about a year and sat vacant until becoming part of Dollar Tree
7: Northern Lights Tanning Company
8: Great Clips
9: The UPS Store / recent open; this portion of the construction sat unoccupied since the plaza was built
10: Edward Jones Investments / recent open; this portion of the construction sat unoccupied since the plaza was built

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An update: As of this past Monday, the fixture liquidation (one week only - oddly, that's all it took) is over, and the store is EMPTY. As of today, the lights aren't even being turned on. (Ironically, the old Dollar Tree still has 'security system mode'/'closed for the day' lighting, with the "office" visible from Detroit Road nearby.) Also, I think the old Dollar Tree took up THREE locations - Just For You, Sips & Nibbles, and one space down - since there are three doors on the side facing Abbe Road.

CVS is refusing to sell Rolling Stone Magazine with the Boston Marathon Bomber on the cover. CVS is based in neighboring Rhode Island.

Unusual CVS building design, which was used by Revco:
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3793/8787143569_27cb84ed44_z.jpg)
Mansfield, OH
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7282/8743265538_d916cd802d_z.jpg)
Lodi, OH

And a CVS that is in a former movie theatre:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8259/8625225959_775d7c3740.jpg)
Philadelphia, PA.  As a movie theatre, known as Felt's/Stanley Warner's Aldine Theatre, Viking Theatre, Rugoff's/Cinema 5's Cinema 19 Theatre, and Sameric/United Artists Theatres Sam's Place Twin Theatre.

Quote from: MikeRa on September 28, 2013, 05:11:23 PM
Unusual CVS building design, which was used by Revco:
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3793/8787143569_27cb84ed44_z.jpg)
Mansfield, OH

I know there's at least one of those in Scotia (NY) - just outside Schenectady.  If I remember correctly, it was built not too long before CVS bought out the Revco chain, so it was probably their last building style (and also, at least here I think was their only free standing store - the other couple I can think of were former Brooks that Revco took over, both in shopping centers).

That CVS looks really cool.  8)

There's one in Elyria, OH, on Cleveland Street. It's the only one that I've seen around here.

CVS plans to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in all their stores nationwide by October 1st.

http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2014/02/05/cvs-to-stop-selling-cigarettes-tobacco-products-at-its-stores-nationwide/

Quote from: Marc B on February 05, 2014, 10:32:32 AM
CVS plans to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in all their stores nationwide by October 1st.

http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2014/02/05/cvs-to-stop-selling-cigarettes-tobacco-products-at-its-stores-nationwide/

Wow... Target did this way back in 1996, but only due to profitability that was shrinking. Wegmans did more recently but that also was likely due to profits. I wonder if Walgreens and Rite Aid will follow suit. In fact, the other night I discovered a big, modern CVS in the parking lot of an old, outdated Rite Aid. Maybe the CVS will end up closing because a lot of smokers seem to be in the area?

Also, here's something interesting about the recent history of CVS: they just opened a regional office in a small portion of the former Acme supermarket in Ambler PA, most of which already became a CVS store over 8 years ago. Many former Acme stores have ended up as nine-tenths a CVS but with a small portion empty.

Quote from: Marc B on February 05, 2014, 10:32:32 AM
CVS plans to stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in all their stores nationwide by October 1st.

http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2014/02/05/cvs-to-stop-selling-cigarettes-tobacco-products-at-its-stores-nationwide/

Now, Im not a smoker, but Im going to miss the smell of the pipe tobacco as I walk in the door.

Quote from: bubcolbert1952 on February 05, 2014, 02:15:58 PM
Wow... Target did this way back in 1996, but only due to profitability that was shrinking. Wegmans did more recently but that also was likely due to profits. I wonder if Walgreens and Rite Aid will follow suit.

I remember a few years before they went under, Bradlees did this. As for Walgreens, when I caught the story on CNN and FOX News Channel both reported Walgreens was currently re-evaluating the sales of tobacco sales. Back to CVS, they said CVS will lose $2 Billion in sales.

As of June 2010 Drust Family Shoprites (Southington and Wallingford, Connecticut) do not sell cigarettes and tobacco products. June 2010 is when they moved the store 3 miles down Route 5 from Meriden to Wallingford and when they opened in Southington that November they followed they same policy.

Because of this people I used to work at at Shoprite in Southington would go to the CVS next door to buy their cigarettes. It was a running joke that the Shoprite employees were the only ones keeping that CVS open since it does not perform well. Now the Shoprite employees will have to go to the adjacent Exxon Station.

I personally don't smoke but I must say I disagree with this decision. Not only does it give the consumer less choice of where to purchase a LEGAL product, but also, if you're going to ban a legal product from your stores to protect customers' health, why not ban alcohol? CVS stores in a number of states (California one of them) sell alcohol, and not just beer or wine, but those two along with spirits, also known as hard liquor. And why not ban soda with sugar or baked goods with a certain amount of saturated fat? It's not only trans fat that kills.

I would say as a private company, that decision is wholly up to them.
They must feel very strongly about it if they are willing to walk away from
$2 bil. in revenue.

People who feel strongly otherwise will go and shop elsewhere.

That seems like an incredibly stupid move not only are you going the sales of tobacco but your also going to lose sales in pharmacy and other good's. People aren't going to want to have to stop at a separate shop to pick up tobacco if they can switch to Rite-aid or Walgreens and only have to make one stop. Not only that but the fact that they are so incredibly insane to think this is going to "improve customers’ health.". Seriously anyone who is stupid enough to think that if you stop selling a product at a store that people use on a regular basis they will for some reason not go to another store and get it needs to be locked up in a mental hospital. They better not ever stop selling liquids and food otherwise people will never drink or eat again.

Maybe if Walgreens stops selling tobacco products too it could give Rite-aid the boost that it needs to get back in the game.

Actually I am an occasional smoker (who smokes mostly on weekends at bars and clubs) and honestly, the only places with a decent selection of tobacco items are dedicated smoke shops. If you only smoke the most popular cigarette brands, or like to try all the new Marlboro flavors as they hit the shelves, you can buy what you want almost anywhere. But if you want more exotic cigarettes or if you want cigars that are decent at all, the selection at most drugstores is very minimal. The convenience of buying the few items CVS does sell must be painful for some people to lose though.

It would have been more reasonable if CVS had decided to stop selling cigarettes by the pack, and started only selling by the carton (or maybe they could have done the opposite, discontinue cartons and only sell packs). Or they could have stopped selling cigarettes but kept selling cigars.

Someone just happened to get a CVS that was obviously a former Revco in the picture at the bottom of this page: http://www.gassigns.org/crystalflash.htm

Also, the Eckerd in these two photos has been a CVS for the past ten years: http://www.gassigns.org/minstop.htm

CVS built a new store at the far end of my street.
In order to build it they bought 3 houses and demolished them
to make way for the parking lot.

They paid about triple the going rate for each.
Figures they did not want to build the store on MY block.   :-\

The FTC made CVS sell the Revco stores they had already bought in Virginia to Eckerd (then owned by JCPenney) because CVS already had a big presence in Virginia due to their acquisition of the Peoples Drug chain. A lot of the Revco stores were newer and nicer than the many very old Peoples stores, so it's a shame CVS couldn't have moved the CVS stores that were once Peoples to former Revco sites. I know of at least one former Revco/Eckerd in the Richmond area that closed as Eckerd before Rite Aid bought that chain that still is empty.

Could anyone who would know please tell me if the CVS next to Hersheypark in Harrisburg PA is still open? I'm thinking this CVS was once a Revco or maybe a Peoples Drug (possibly under the Rea & Derick banner, which was first owned by Acme Markets Inc) before it was a CVS.

The CVS on Chocolate Ave in Hershey was originally on the other side of town closer to the newer Giant (as opposed to the current location which is near the older Giant).  It was originally a Peoples Drug, in a shopping center with an A&P.  Both it and the Rite Aid in town are open and pretty busy due to the town's tourism.

Quote from: JoshAustin610 on April 25, 2014, 06:41:29 PM
The CVS on Chocolate Ave in Hershey was originally on the other side of town closer to the newer Giant (as opposed to the current location which is near the older Giant).  It was originally a Peoples Drug, in a shopping center with an A&P.  Both it and the Rite Aid in town are open and pretty busy due to the town's tourism.

Thanks. I'm thinking if either the Staples (was Giant) or Karns in Hershey close, Pronio's (a very old small independent supermarket in the heart of Hershey) will move to one of those sites. Then the current Pronio's could become a Walgreens, making for all three big drugstore chains being in Hershey.

Walgreens doesn't seem to have any interest in central PA; they have a few stores in Lancaster, York, and Chambersburg, but none in greater Harrisburg at all.  They've still only been in PA for less than 20 years, so they most likely prefer to focus on the high-population areas of Philly and Pittsburgh, with time to expand later.  Even if they were interested in Hershey Pronio's isn't on the main road; they would need a major intersection where they could build a brand new store.

Quote from: JoshAustin610 on April 25, 2014, 06:41:29 PM
The CVS on Chocolate Ave in Hershey was originally on the other side of town closer to the newer Giant (as opposed to the current location which is near the older Giant).  It was originally a Peoples Drug, in a shopping center with an A&P.  Both it and the Rite Aid in town are open and pretty busy due to the town's tourism.

Any idea when the A&P (now Cocoaplex Cinema) in Hershey closed, next to the former CVS and near the current Giant? Because if it were around 1982 at the same time as the Philadelphia division of A&P closed, I'm wondering if Peoples would have moved to that site, leading to CVS ending up with a store large for its time. Rea & Derick (not sure when it broke off from American Stores to join Peoples) had at least one store that was huge for its time in Gettysburg that opened around 1982 as Acme left Central PA along with Baltimore and the Maryland/Virginia suburbs of Washington DC.

My local CVS has just recently redone their isle arrangements.  The CVS (Store #1731) is located at 3811 Neshaminy Boulevard, Bensalem, PA.

Isles #1-5 to the left of the entrance, Isles #6-9 behind Isles #1-6, Isle 10-12 facing Left & Right walls, Isles #13-16 behind Isles #10-12, Isles 18-20 back by Pharmacy, with end of isles facing Isle #17, and Isles #17, 21-26 to the right of the entrance.  Register to the right of the entrance, facing Isle #26

Isle #1: Cosmetics
Isle #2: Cosmetics
Isle #3: Cosmetics
Isle #4: Skin Care
Isle #5: Shaving and Deodorants
Isle #6: Oral Hygine
Isle #7: Hair Color, Hair Style, and  Hair Accesories
Isle #8: Lotions and Trial Products
Isle #9: Bath soap, Body Wash
Isle #10: Shampoos and Conditioners
Isle #11: Feminine Care
Isle #12: Household Products, Cleaning Supplies, and Paper Products
Isle #13: Allegery and Cold Remedies
Isle #14: Vitamins, and Antacids
Isle #15: Vitamins, and Laxatives
Isle #16: Diet Needs
Isle #17: Foot Care, Pain Relivers
Isle #18: First Aid, Eye Care, and Diabetics
Isle #19: Adult Care
Isle #20: Baby Products
Isle #21: Hallmark Cards and Greeting Cards
Isle #22: Stationery
Isle #23: Seasonal
Isle #24: Seasonal
Isle #25: Groceries and Snacks
Isle #26: Cookies, Gum, and 10 For $10

Left Wall: Beauty Products
Right Wall: Baby, Soft Drinks, Bottled Water, Juices, and Beverages
Front Wall: Cash Registers and Self Serve Photo
Back Wall: Household and Pharmacy

Did the Bensalem store get their "Store of the Future" remodel, with the fancier signage and carpeting?  They redid a few of the stores in wealthier areas (Ambler, Lansdale, & West Chester, plus a new store in Chalfont) with that design, but I've heard they've since decided it was too expensive and were slowing down on it.

Quote from: JoshAustin610 on July 22, 2014, 06:01:11 PM
Did the Bensalem store get their "Store of the Future" remodel, with the fancier signage and carpeting?  They redid a few of the stores in wealthier areas (Ambler, Lansdale, & West Chester, plus a new store in Chalfont) with that design, but I've heard they've since decided it was too expensive and were slowing down on it.

They did not get the "Store of the Future" remodel.  They still have the old signs on the walls.  The isle signs are overhead, like before.  They did convert the old Photo area into an self-serve photo section.  They did get new carpeting that is similar to the "Store of the Future"

This store is across from Neshaminy Mall, facing Macy's (former Strawbridge & Clothier)

Construction of a new CVS on North Street (Route 6) in Bristol, Connecticut will begin once they complete demolition of several buildings. This is will be a replacement store for their store in Park Plaza at 59 North Main Street across the street from the 17 acre vacant lot that was once home to the Mall at Bristol Centre. The store opened in the 1990s. The new CVS will be across the street from an ancient Rite Aide store in North Side Square Plaza.

http://centralctpost.com/2014/08/07/downtown-pharmacy-heading-to-rt-6/

I'm looking for info on some of the locations of the many former drugstores that used to be in malls, primarily in PA and NJ; I'm asking in this thread since most of them were CVS.  I've found that many of the old 70s mall stores were replaced with larger ones in the early 90s, so many may have had two; if anyone knows where in each mall the stores were and if possible what's there now it would be greatly appreciated.  Here's what I'm looking for:

PA:
Harrisburg: Harrisburg East Mall; opened as Rea & Derick in 69, CVS (store #1628) from 91 to early 00s
York: York Galleria; CVS (store #1157) from 89 to approx. 02

NJ:
Deptford: Deptford Mall; CVS from 75 to approx. 95
Mays Landing: Hamilton Mall; CVS (store #925) from 87 to mid 00s
Paramus: Garden State Plaza; first location opened as Mack Drug in early 60s, became CVS from 77 to approx. 96; second location (store #2181) from 96 to approx. 02
Paramus: Paramus Park Mall; first location (store #176) from 74 to 96; second location (store #933) from 96 to early/ mid 00s
Rockaway: Rockaway Townsquare; first location only, from 77 to 92 (was replaced by store #1162, which I do have a pic of)
Toms River: Ocean County Mall; first location from 76 to approx. 91, second location (store #1295) from 91 to mid 00s
Vineland: Cumberland Mall; first location from 74 to approx. 94, second location (store #1902) from 94 to 02

There was a CVS store in the Century III Mall in Pittsburgh for many years.
Has been gone for around a decade I think.

There was also a Thrift Drug inside the Parkway Center Mall which later
became an Eckerd.

I hear that CVS will no longer carry cigars and cigarettes behind the counters in their stores as of October 2014.

Quote from: ShopKoFan on September 04, 2014, 02:54:58 PM
I hear that CVS will no longer carry cigars and cigarettes behind the counters in their stores as of October 2014.

Actually they changed it to September. It was done the other day. It was all over The News.

They wanted the tobacco being gone to coincide with their new ad campaign and new corporate name "CVS Health"; I wonder if the focus on health means the soda and potato chips will be gone eventually as well.

Quote from: JoshAustin610 on September 04, 2014, 06:11:39 PM
I wonder if the focus on health means the soda and potato chips will be gone eventually as well.

I know junk food is considered unhealthy, but I hope not.

I wonder how the behind-the-counter real estate will evolve over time.

Without cigarettes I think the CVS at the Shoprite Plaza in Southington, CT will close. Since the Shoprite DOES NOT sell cigarettes all the employees from all the other businesses in the plaza would by their cigarettes at CVS. Now they'll probably go to the adjacent EXXON station.

With this news of CVS discontinuing carriage of tobacco products, I'm pretty everything will still be fine.

Shopko hasn't sold tobacco products since 1994, and they too, still turned out fine (Shopko thanks the Mormon population out in Utah for starting the trend which started in the Utah Shopko stores 1994 and spread to other Shopko stores by 1997).

Quote from: ShopKoFan on September 05, 2014, 09:33:49 PM

Quote from: JoshAustin610 on September 04, 2014, 06:11:39 PM
I wonder if the focus on health means the soda and potato chips will be gone eventually as well.

I know junk food is considered unhealthy, but I hope not.

I think they might just put a "sin tax" on their junk food, if I'm not mistaken.

Here are pictures I took today of Southgate, Michigan's two CVS locations.

The first is in the Southgate Shopping Center, but in it's own separate building not attached to the center itself located at the Eureka Road traffic light entrance. It opened in 1998 and may have been the very last Arbor Drugs ever opened, along with the CVS in the outlot of the Model T Plaza on Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, Michigan.
(http://i.imgur.com/9fKosWz.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/VFW1UVW.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/4DRenwr.jpg)

The second anchors a strip mall at the northeast corner of Dix-Toledo Highway and Eureka, almost directly across from Walmart. This one opened as an Arbor Drugs in the 1990's.
(http://i.imgur.com/5XQvZRR.jpg)

The CVS that I visited today had both of their Coupons Center machines down as far as retreiving coupons for the ExtraCare card.

CVS has yet to start construction on their replacement on North Street (Route 6) in Bristol, Connecticut right near the intersection with North Main. When built it will replace the store in Park Plaza at 59 North Main across from the parking lot that used to be The Mall at Bristol Center. The only thing that has happened is they demolished the buildings where the store will be built.


They also want to demolish a bunch of businesses on Broad Street in Meriden, Connecticut to build a new CVS. If they do this, this will make 4 CVS's in that city unless they close one of them. There are 2 near each other on East Main and one on West Main.

What was once a CVS in the Bristol Farms Plaza at 1235 Farmington Ave in Bristol, CT is vacant yet again. CVS closed the store here and in the Stop & Shop plaza in the late 1990s and built a brand new free-standing store with drive-thru next to Dunkin Donuts. The CVS stayed vacant for a few years and then became a Family Dollar for about 5 years. Then it was Aaron's Furniture Rental until 2014 when they moved to Price Chopper Plaza. P.S. The former CVS at Stop & Shop Plaza has been a Dollar Tree for many years.

Are there any strip mall or indoor shopping mall cvs's left? All locations in the eastern part of the state of CT have been moved into free standing locations.

Quote from: Bdubs on March 21, 2015, 10:32:25 PM
Are there any strip mall or indoor shopping mall cvs's left? All locations in the eastern part of the state of CT have been moved into free standing locations.

There are 4 that I can think of off the top of my head.

1. 59 North Main Street Bristol in the plaza across the street from the now-demolished Bristol Center Mall. - As I mentioned they're planning on building a replacement store on the Corner of North and North Main.

2. 720 Queen Street Southington in the Shoprite Plaza.

3. 45 South Main Street Unionville in the Rivers Edge Plaza

4. 14 Farmington Ave Plainville on the corner of New Britain Ave - Does this one count as a strip mall ? In the late 1990s CVS and Blockbuster Video took over this building that was originally Greenfield's Supermarket and was a small BIG Y until 1994. Now that Blockbuster has closed that space is now a Verizon Wireless Franchise and empty space.

Quote from: Bdubs on March 21, 2015, 10:32:25 PM
Are there any strip mall or indoor shopping mall cvs's left? All locations in the eastern part of the state of CT have been moved into free standing locations.

In NY, Crossgates and Colonie Center Malls both still have CVS stores - neither has a pharmacy (Colonie did but closed when a new store opened up Wolf road a few blocks, Crossgates was built without one).

There is also a small store in East Greenbush, NY on Route 9&20 (aka Columbia Turnpike) that remains in a strip plaza.  They built a newer one a few miles away on Route 4 (which ends, after travelling across VT and much of eastern NY at 9&20 across from the entry to the plaza the CVS is in) but kept this one, probably since Rite Aid has 3 stores along the section of 9&20 (2 original, 1 former Eckerd).

One additional is in Ravena, NY - a plaza with a Shop n Save (Hannaford supplied but not owned - former GU) and the CVS is in part of the attached "mini mall" building, which looks like an older supermarket space - at least I think it's still there, haven't been there lately.

Additionally there are a couple in the greater Albany NY area that are "built in" to the city - one on Madison Avenue, one on Delaware, one on Central at least I can think of.  In these areas, there isn't any room for a "freestanding" store to be built.

And finally, an interesting new build also in Albany, on New Scotland Ave (near Albany Medical Center) - it's in a building which has a couple floors and houses some doctor offices, but was built such that there is a drive thru on the back of the building (the front is right @ the street sidewalk), and the majority of the parking is across a side street.  It also has 2 entrance doors, both from New Scotland, but one at each end of the frontage.  So not exactly freestanding, but still the modern style with drive thru.

Quote from: Bdubs on March 21, 2015, 10:32:25 PM
Are there any strip mall or indoor shopping mall cvs's left? All locations in the eastern part of the state of CT have been moved into free standing locations.

There are still shopping center CVS stores in Shrewsbury and Cape May Court House in New Jersey.

My friend posted on Facebook that he was at the Cape Cod Mall in Hyannis, Massachusetts yesterday, so I checked out their store directory and there is still a CVS at this mall which is owned by The Simon Corporation.

Quote from: BillyGr on March 22, 2015, 04:06:32 PM

Quote from: Bdubs on March 21, 2015, 10:32:25 PM
Are there any strip mall or indoor shopping mall cvs's left? All locations in the eastern part of the state of CT have been moved into free standing locations.

In NY, Crossgates and Colonie Center Malls both still have CVS stores - neither has a pharmacy (Colonie did but closed when a new store opened up Wolf road a few blocks, Crossgates was built without one).

There is also a small store in East Greenbush, NY on Route 9&20 (aka Columbia Turnpike) that remains in a strip plaza.  They built a newer one a few miles away on Route 4 (which ends, after travelling across VT and much of eastern NY at 9&20 across from the entry to the plaza the CVS is in) but kept this one, probably since Rite Aid has 3 stores along the section of 9&20 (2 original, 1 former Eckerd).

One additional is in Ravena, NY - a plaza with a Shop n Save (Hannaford supplied but not owned - former GU) and the CVS is in part of the attached "mini mall" building, which looks like an older supermarket space - at least I think it's still there, haven't been there lately.

Additionally there are a couple in the greater Albany NY area that are "built in" to the city - one on Madison Avenue, one on Delaware, one on Central at least I can think of.  In these areas, there isn't any room for a "freestanding" store to be built.

And finally, an interesting new build also in Albany, on New Scotland Ave (near Albany Medical Center) - it's in a building which has a couple floors and houses some doctor offices, but was built such that there is a drive thru on the back of the building (the front is right @ the street sidewalk), and the majority of the parking is across a side street.  It also has 2 entrance doors, both from New Scotland, but one at each end of the frontage.  So not exactly freestanding, but still the modern style with drive thru.

I recall CVS in Rotterdam mall and Sangertown mall both closed a while back

Quote from: buzz86us on April 05, 2015, 02:57:18 AM

Quote from: BillyGr on March 22, 2015, 04:06:32 PM

Quote from: Bdubs on March 21, 2015, 10:32:25 PM
Are there any strip mall or indoor shopping mall cvs's left? All locations in the eastern part of the state of CT have been moved into free standing locations.

In NY, Crossgates and Colonie Center Malls both still have CVS stores - neither has a pharmacy (Colonie did but closed when a new store opened up Wolf road a few blocks, Crossgates was built without one).

There is also a small store in East Greenbush, NY on Route 9&20 (aka Columbia Turnpike) that remains in a strip plaza.  They built a newer one a few miles away on Route 4 (which ends, after travelling across VT and much of eastern NY at 9&20 across from the entry to the plaza the CVS is in) but kept this one, probably since Rite Aid has 3 stores along the section of 9&20 (2 original, 1 former Eckerd).

One additional is in Ravena, NY - a plaza with a Shop n Save (Hannaford supplied but not owned - former GU) and the CVS is in part of the attached "mini mall" building, which looks like an older supermarket space - at least I think it's still there, haven't been there lately.

Additionally there are a couple in the greater Albany NY area that are "built in" to the city - one on Madison Avenue, one on Delaware, one on Central at least I can think of.  In these areas, there isn't any room for a "freestanding" store to be built.

And finally, an interesting new build also in Albany, on New Scotland Ave (near Albany Medical Center) - it's in a building which has a couple floors and houses some doctor offices, but was built such that there is a drive thru on the back of the building (the front is right @ the street sidewalk), and the majority of the parking is across a side street.  It also has 2 entrance doors, both from New Scotland, but one at each end of the frontage.  So not exactly freestanding, but still the modern style with drive thru.

I recall CVS in Rotterdam mall and Sangertown mall both closed a while back

I can confirm that Sangertown did use to have a CVS. The space was remodeled and it's now a Famous Footwear that just opened last year. It moved to the mall from the nearby Orchard shopping center.

Additonal info: between CVS and FF, it was a glow-in-the-dark golf place (which I've been to), and then a couple of independent stores, which all kept the CVS look inside and out. 

In this article about the economic impact of the riots in Baltimore, Maryland CVS states that it does not know if they will reopened the store that was looted and burned on Monday. http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-economic-impact-riots-20150501-story.html#page=1

The newscasters on ABC2 there called that shortly after it was set ablaze. Personally, I think it's become such an icon of what happened, it should just be reopened as a memorial/museum to what happened. Someone already tagged the side of the building. Why not turn it into something positive?

I can't even believe all the effort it took for that community to finally get a CVS-only to watch their hard work undone by hoodlums.

CVS Pharmacy is buying Target's Pharmacy business for $1.9 billion.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/cvs-to-buy-targets-pharmacy-clinic-businesses-for-dollar19-billion/ar-BBl9GFz?ocid=fbmsn

For those scratching their heads over why this is happening, USA Today provides some insight. Takeaway #1: the pharmacy business at TGT was losing money.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/06/15/target-cvs-pharmacy-sale/71248932/

Will they rebrand all Target pharmacies into store-within-a-store CVS stores?

That's the plan; it's different from their normal franchise agreements however in that the pharmacies will be completely run by CVS with CVS employees.  Their Starbucks deal for example is licensing only; the in-store Starbucks are staffed by Target employees.

In Canada, Target pharmacies were run by the Brunet Pharmacy chain.

Although the pharmacy aisles had Up&Up brand products, the receipt on a purchase was showing Brunet's logo and you could not get Target's 5% discount with Red Card.

The next question is: Will they rebrand all of Target's Up & Up H&B products to the CVS brand?

It sounds like the rest of the OTC health department is still going to be run by Target; CVS will just be controlling what's within the pharmacy.  I know CVS employees have already been told they won't be getting an employee discount there (unless it's a prescription).

Apparently that decision to stop selling tobacco products is not working out so well.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/04/investing/cvs-earnings-cigarettes/index.html?iid=EL

Quote from: TheFugitive on August 06, 2015, 02:18:32 PM
Apparently that decision to stop selling tobacco products is not working out so well.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/04/investing/cvs-earnings-cigarettes/index.html?iid=EL

Not really surprised. Cigarettes are a huge convenience item, and however you see it, CVS's (and other so-called Pharmacy chains) are nothing other than glorified 7-11's with a drug counter in the back. People that would stop at the corner CVS are now going to the Rite Aid or Walgreens across the street. And everything else at CVS is so overpriced (including their prescriptions), who really goes in there to pick up more than a few convenience items?

Front end sales are suffering a bit, but the gains in the back end (pharmacy) are more than making up for it on the earnings front. None of its major rivals have followed suit in eliminating tobacco from their stores AFAIK.

I thought the rationale behind ever-bigger stand-alone drug stores was that insurance companies were increasingly putting the squeeze on pharmacy profits.  Hence they were counting on customers to wander the aisles and buy more and more stuff as they waited for their prescriptions.

Quote from: jason83080 on May 03, 2015, 11:25:55 AM
The newscasters on ABC2 there called that shortly after it was set ablaze. Personally, I think it's become such an icon of what happened, it should just be reopened as a memorial/museum to what happened. Someone already tagged the side of the building. Why not turn it into something positive?

Yes, a museum of what happens when people riots -- businesses flee the area.... Hartford's north end hadn't had a major supermarket since. Now, Shop-Rite is going into the area. It was 45 years since Stop&Shop and Finast burned down in the 68 riots.

Quote from: JimSawhill on August 15, 2015, 10:00:58 PM

Quote from: jason83080 on May 03, 2015, 11:25:55 AM
The newscasters on ABC2 there called that shortly after it was set ablaze. Personally, I think it's become such an icon of what happened, it should just be reopened as a memorial/museum to what happened. Someone already tagged the side of the building. Why not turn it into something positive?

Yes, a museum of what happens when people riots -- businesses flee the area.... Hartford's north end hadn't had a major supermarket since. Now, Shop-Rite is going into the area. It was 45 years since Stop&Shop and Finast burned down in the 68 riots.

That actually reminds me of how much of Detroit ended up into what it is today, although it now has two Meijer stores-and believe me, this is after a long period of supermarket chains failing in the city ever since a few A&P stores were burned down during the riots of 1967-which were, in fact, the most destructive in American history prior to the 1992 unrest in Los Angeles.

The Hill District of Pittsburgh also had riots and burnings in '68.
Residents have long complained about being in a "food desert" with no
grocery stores within easy commuting distance.  Particularly if you don't own a car.

After 45 years of pressing this issue a Shop n' Save location finally opened a couple
of years ago.  MASSIVE public subsidies went into enticing them to come here.  Several
other chains had bailed on the idea.

I am guessing the Meijers stores in Detroit were enticed to come in with
similar taxpayer-funded incentives.

Quote from: Hudsons81 on October 08, 2014, 03:37:02 PM
The first is in the Southgate Shopping Center, but in it's own separate building not attached to the center itself located at the Eureka Road traffic light entrance. It opened in 1998 and may have been the very last Arbor Drugs ever opened, along with the CVS in the outlot of the Model T Plaza on Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, Michigan.
(http://i.imgur.com/9fKosWz.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/VFW1UVW.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/4DRenwr.jpg)

The exterior of the same store. Photo taken by Google in July 2015.
(http://i.imgur.com/Ibxf2bC.png)

The new CVS on North Street (Route 6) in Bristol, Connecticut is almost finished. It's replacing the store round the corner at 59 North Main Street across from the site where The Bristol Center Mall used to be located.

The CVS locations in my area were former OSCO Drug locations.

Quote from: ShopKoFan on October 05, 2015, 12:16:14 PM
The CVS locations in my area were former OSCO Drug locations.

Bristol, Connecticut

839 Farmington Avenue - built from the ground up on the site of the former LaMonico's Pizza
60 Middle Street - Built from the ground up where there was an old historic house
59 North Main Street - Built from the ground up when the built/rebuilt Park Plaza (closing soon)
North Street - Built from the ground up replaced a rundown strip of building and a former Jiffy Lube which part of became Enterprise and a house that used to be home to Century 21 A-Gold Realty. *Opening Soon*

Southington, Connecticut

724 Queen Street - In Shoprite Plaza. Not sure when it opened. The part of the plaza it is in was built in 87 I believe.
326 Main Street - Built from the ground up in 2000 where Mitchell Ford used to be.

*Old Location closed when the 326 Main Street Store open* 200 Main Street. Was First National Grocery Store until 72. Then was Guido's Super Market until '86. Sat empty for a few years before CVS took 8,000+ Square Feet.

Farmington, Connecticut
*Orignal Location. Closed a few years back.* 188 Main Street Post Office Square Plaza. Built from the ground up when they built a new building in the plaza housing a couple other stores besides CVS

*Current Location* 330 Main. Built from the ground up on the site of the former Silo Restaurant.

Plainville, Connecticut

14 Farmington Ave - Was Greenfield's Supermarket and Later Big Y.

New Britain, Connecticut
177 Columbus Blvd. - Built from the ground up on the site of the former courthouse. (Originally located across the street in Columbus Plaza)

713 West Main - CorWest Plaza. Not sure if they rebuilt it when they redid the plaza in 1999 or 2000.

Here's a little something to lighten up your Friday:

California man dresses as CVS receipt, redeems discount (http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/national/california-man-dresses-cvs-receipt-redeems-discount/TfcIjIDsBk5xJy5AqTmVAN/)

:D

The CVS on East Main Street in Meriden has moved to a brand new location on Broad Street.

From MYRECORDJOURNAL.COM

CVS moves from East Main to Broad Street in Meriden
By Mary Ellen Godin Record-Journal staff

MERIDEN â€" The East Main Street CVS has moved to its new home on Broad Street.
The new CVS, at 143 Broad St., opened this week. It has two drive-through windows. A new left-turn lane was created to move traffic through the intersection that connects Broad Street, Ann Street and Gale Avenue. The former CVS, at 679 E. Main St., closed recently and moved its employees and merchandise to the Broad Street CVS. Prior to becoming a CVS, the East Main Street store was Kaye’s Pharmacy, founded by Samuel Kalmanowitz, who ran it independently until it was sold to CVS in 2003. The chain kept the Kaye’s name on the building and prescription labels for some time to benefit from the customer loyalty that Kalmanowitz built at the store. The Broad Street CVS is 14,000 square feet and spans three parcels â€" 167, 153 and 143 Broad St. Several buildings were demolished to make way for the pharmacy. The store has parking for 68 cars.

Reading between the lines, it appears that its decision to get out of the tobacco business is proving costly to the retail side of CVS
http://www.retaildive.com/news/strong-cvs-pharmacy-results-belie-retail-weakness/435834/

My employer recently changed health insurance plans.

The new insurer apparently has negotiated a pricing deal with CVS on prescriptions.
They are trying to encourage us to have our scrips filled there.

As part of that campaign CVS just sent me a new version of their rewards card that
I've had for years.   This one claims to get me additional discounts as a customer of
that insurance company, provided I get both my prescriptions AND general merchandise
at CVS.  It is specifically branded and linked to my health insurer.

I for one am not comfortable with the whole arrangement.

That data from the POS scans is going somewhere.
What if I buy things from CVS that are not necessarily healthy choices?
A few bags of candy?  Two-liter bottles of Coca-Cola?  God help me if I smoked
and they still sold tobacco.

And what if I buy over-the-counter meds?  If I buy an antacid 3 times, does that
point to some underlying health issue that my insurer is going to want to start digging
into?

This looks to me to be just another way to rat out our lifestyle choices to health insurers.
I for one have completely stopped shopping at CVS as a result.

They've made it mostly a convenience store now..

Quote from: TheFugitive on February 10, 2017, 09:13:25 AM
As part of that campaign CVS just sent me a new version of their rewards card that
I've had for years.   This one claims to get me additional discounts as a customer of
that insurance company, provided I get both my prescriptions AND general merchandise
at CVS.  It is specifically branded and linked to my health insurer.

Unless they've changed it, that card is only good for a bit of an extra discount on CVS branded items. 

You can still use your regular red card for normal deals as there is no link between the two.

CVS is cutting hours at their location at the struggling Pine Tree Shopping Center in Portland, ME. It's a tiny, low-volume store to begin with. I imagine they won't renew their lease when it's up. At one point I thought they would relocate to a larger space at the plaza (Lord knows there are plenty of those) but it appears they've given up entirely on this location.

Quote from: retailisking on February 23, 2017, 09:30:13 PM
CVS is cutting hours at their location at the struggling Pine Tree Shopping Center in Portland, ME. It's a tiny, low-volume store to begin with. I imagine they won't renew their lease when it's up. At one point I thought they would relocate to a larger space at the plaza (Lord knows there are plenty of those) but it appears they've given up entirely on this location.

So many pharmacies are leaving shopping centers for new freestanding buildings located on street corners.

Quote from: Zayre88 on February 24, 2017, 05:52:01 PM

Quote from: retailisking on February 23, 2017, 09:30:13 PM
CVS is cutting hours at their location at the struggling Pine Tree Shopping Center in Portland, ME. It's a tiny, low-volume store to begin with. I imagine they won't renew their lease when it's up. At one point I thought they would relocate to a larger space at the plaza (Lord knows there are plenty of those) but it appears they've given up entirely on this location.

So many pharmacies are leaving shopping centers for new freestanding buildings located on street corners.

I think it so that they can have a drive-thru pick up window for people to pick up their prescriptions.

Quote from: Pikapower on February 24, 2017, 09:21:09 PM

Quote from: Zayre88 on February 24, 2017, 05:52:01 PM

Quote from: retailisking on February 23, 2017, 09:30:13 PM
CVS is cutting hours at their location at the struggling Pine Tree Shopping Center in Portland, ME. It's a tiny, low-volume store to begin with. I imagine they won't renew their lease when it's up. At one point I thought they would relocate to a larger space at the plaza (Lord knows there are plenty of those) but it appears they've given up entirely on this location.

So many pharmacies are leaving shopping centers for new freestanding buildings located on street corners.

I think it so that they can have a drive-thru pick up window for people to pick up their prescriptions.

I'm now hearing that they'll be closing when their lease is up.

Quote from: Zayre88 on February 24, 2017, 05:52:01 PM

Quote from: retailisking on February 23, 2017, 09:30:13 PM
CVS is cutting hours at their location at the struggling Pine Tree Shopping Center in Portland, ME. It's a tiny, low-volume store to begin with. I imagine they won't renew their lease when it's up. At one point I thought they would relocate to a larger space at the plaza (Lord knows there are plenty of those) but it appears they've given up entirely on this location.

So many pharmacies are leaving shopping centers for new freestanding buildings located on street corners.

I'm not sure if there are any CVS's left here in CT that are in strip malls. The have all moved to free standing locations. All of their mall locations have been long gone as well.

Quote from: Bdubs on February 25, 2017, 05:39:41 PM
I'm not sure if there are any CVS's left here in CT that are in strip malls. The have all moved to free standing locations. All of their mall locations have been long gone as well.

Off the top of my head in Connecticut I know Southington, Unionville and Plainville all have locations in strip malls.

Southington in the Shoprite Plaza. Unionville in that plaza near that Green Bridge. Plainville it's on an end cap of the plaza that includes a Verizon Store and Vacant Space. The building used to be Greenfield's and until 93ish Big Y.

Other plazas such as Centennial Plaza in Meriden and Cor-West Plaza in New Britain have free-standing CVS locations.

The CVS on Bristol Road and Hulmeville Road [PA Route 513] has the current interior facade and new exterior signaage with the CVS "Heart" logo

At over 60,000 square feet the former Katz Drugs was several times larger than their typical 12,000 sq. ft. It also had a distinctive zig-zag roofline. Years of neglect really show in the condition of the roof.
(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/03/04/PSPR/69c2a170-5854-48bd-8927-77fea9327eae-CVS2.jpg)
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2019/03/04/cvs-store-location-glenstone-close-april-fools-day/3054796002

The Scotia one was replaced last year. The Revco convert was torn down to make room for the new one built next to it.

Quote from: Retail Regents on May 18, 2019, 11:50:25 PM
The Scotia one was replaced last year. The Revco convert was torn down to make room for the new one built next to it.

Odd, since that Revco was one of (if not the) only one in the area that was a newer store not part of a shopping plaza to begin with...

Here's a CVS pharmacy in the Rockville section of Vernon, CT! This building & the interior looks to be from the early 2000s (in our opinion). The one on the other side of Vernon (Rte. 83) still preserves the exact building on the exterior with those signs still intact but renovated on the inside.

What's the story with this location? It's clearly a former Rite Aid, and it's quite obvious with the blue trim and ceiling.

Could it have been an Eckerd?

This one was built as Rite Aid, sometime in the late 1990s. Has the diamond windows like a typical late 1990s Rite Aid. The restrooms have the original white vinyl tile with the occasional light blue tile(s).

Built as Rite Aid and then closed when they were having financial issues - hadn't been around too long as I remember.

CVS used to be down 146 in the small shopping plaza (the one that was in the news this week for a gas leak) and moved in shortly after Rite Aid closed up and has been there since.

Around the same time Rite Aid was building a store on Central Avenue and Fuller in Albany - that one never opened, and was taken over by the current tenant (Goodwill).

Can't remember exactly when this was, but probably either very late 1990's (like 1999) or early 2000's - somewhere between their acquisitions of Thrifty in 1996 and Brooks/Eckerd in 2007.

Quote from: BillyGr on September 14, 2019, 12:55:51 PM
Built as Rite Aid and then closed when they were having financial issues - hadn't been around too long as I remember.

CVS used to be down 146 in the small shopping plaza (the one that was in the news this week for a gas leak) and moved in shortly after Rite Aid closed up and has been there since.

Around the same time Rite Aid was building a store on Central Avenue and Fuller in Albany - that one never opened, and was taken over by the current tenant (Goodwill).

Can't remember exactly when this was, but probably either very late 1990's (like 1999) or early 2000's - somewhere between their acquisitions of Thrifty in 1996 and Brooks/Eckerd in 2007.

My guess would be... 2002? I know the shopping carts are from late 2001 and I believe there was a time where a few stores were sold to CVS c. 2002. Perhaps this was one of those?

Quote from: retailisking on March 07, 2019, 01:16:57 AM
At over 60,000 square feet the former Katz Drugs was several times larger than their typical 12,000 sq. ft. It also had a distinctive zig-zag roofline. Years of neglect really show in the condition of the roof.
(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/03/04/PSPR/69c2a170-5854-48bd-8927-77fea9327eae-CVS2.jpg)
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2019/03/04/cvs-store-location-glenstone-close-april-fools-day/3054796002

I wonder what will happen to that building...

I'm behind the curve on this, but CVS is closing an additional 22 locations (one casualty is the Pine Tree Shopping Center location in Portland, ME which I noted under malls.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/11/06/cvs-store-closings-22-stores-shutter-2020/4175916002/

CVS has announced that they are cutting 5000 jobs, mainly administrative and home office positions.  This is a cost cutting move.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/cvs-to-lay-off-5000-employees-in-push-to-shed-costs/ar-AA1eDVUc