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A word before I go on to write the rest of this blog post. Well, maybe more than just one word.
Not that I assume that any terrorist reads this blog or would even listen to me, but these senseless acts of violence and murder must stop. My heart (and all the world’s heart) is breaking for the families and friends who lost loved ones in these recent and not so recent tragedies. It is hard to make sense of the senseless.
The energy of that visceral hatred could be refocused to do so much good.
Peace to all who are hurting right now. Which in truth, means all of us.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled program.
I love our local CVS Pharmacy. Is it minutes from our house and there is always a parking spot right in front. The pharmacist knows my name from all my Prozac . . . er . . . I mean, vitamin refills, it seems that whatever is on my list is on sale that day, and I know where everything is in the store. And, unlike a usual trip to Target where I go in for three items and mysteriously end up with a cart full of things I didn’t know I wanted or needed and a $325.36 bill, I can get out of CVS in under $20.
Okay, maybe under $50.
My issue with CVS is thusly. Why oh why the mile long receipts? I went to CVS today and purchased four greeting cards (to the tune of $14!) and picked up two prescriptions. My receipt was, and I kid you not, 37 inches long!
Are you kidding me?
In addition to giving me a record of my transaction, I also received a summary of today’s and the year-to-date savings, an Extrabucks reward for $3.00, and six coupons for items that the evil marketers at CVS want to rope me into buying. They want me to say, “$7 off Geritol? Count me in!”
But, I’m hip to their nefarious plan and promptly threw away those coupons and pocketed the Extrabucks. Actually, Extrabucks are a little like winning the drugstore lottery.
I swear I could wallpaper Buckingham Palace thrice over with all of my CVS receipts. Queen Elizabeth would not be amused if I did.
The Queen’s Guard might get a chuckle out of it. I hear those guys are a laugh a minute.
A recent article in Fortune magazine promised the end of the mile-long CVS receipts starting in June of this year. Customers signed up with the CVS rewards program would have the chance to opt-out of paper receipts in favor of digital receipts.
Here it is mid-June and no opt-out option has crossed my path. Did I miss the chance to opt-out because I threw away a CVS receipt, or did perchance I plaster it on the wall of QE II’s bathroom?
Robin Coyle 
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I was so intrigued I had to google CVS.
I figured out how to opt-out of the mile lone receipts. Watch for a follow-up blog post.
Half the time I forget to use the reward and by the time I remember it’s usually expired. 😦
Isn’t that maddening!
As a former CVS employee (I still have the boxcutter I stole on my last day in 1989!), I sympathize with your alarmingly long receipt.
That said, the CVS folks clearly gave it to you out of love. The manager probably saw you coming and thought, “Hm. That gal looks like she could use a bit of Geritol!”
Ya know . . . a hit of Geritol would probably do me good right now.
One time I told them I wrap all my long receipts around an empty toilet tissue roll and , oh well, you get the picture, and so did the CVS clerk. He didn’t laugh though.
Good one. Those CVS clerks don’t have much of a sense of humor.
Ha. I do the same thing, but my store of choice is Walgreens. Especially when I lived in Florida. It was 1 mile down the road, so any quick item I needed got me in and out fast. Everyone knew me there, too. I seem to get long receipts from everywhere these days. And, I despise giving out my phone number for every purchase. I either don’t give it to them, or give them a fake number. I only get the reward cards at stores I frequent, which is basically just Walgreens, Petsmart and Panera (right near my new place where I sometimes go to write). I usually wonder if I should go through the receipts and see what I could use, but that would entail going to find my reading glasses, and it’s usually not worth it.:-P
Heh. Glad to read your relate-able post.
Ha! Those damned reading glasses. They are never where you need them even tho I have about a dozen pairs scattered around the house. It is so maddening.
I can’t wait until all our receipts are paperless if we use a charge card.
I agree as long as vendor doesn’t take advantage of having your email and starts filling up your email in-box with promotional emails!
True!
Be careful. The digital receipt might use up all your monthly data allowance!
Good point!
Sigh. Let’s kill some more trees. Need to keep people working
OR
See what great records we keep? We are looking out for you (Big Brother is spying on your purchases).
😀 😀 😀
Exactly. They give us coupons based on our previous purchases. It is a tad creepy!
What is with those darn streamers. Oh, well, the dog enjoys racing around the house with them fluttering behind here….it’s like the May Pole dance…except with a dog….and not a circle…but we end up with confetti…now if only a parade would show up…and I am so not leaving it on the ground until July..there will be other receipts.
There is always be other receipts from CVS.
I am with you on this one! I don’t really care for their ap though either. It is all just a pain in the arse. Extra care dollars are very nice though.
Those Extra Care bucks get me back into the store. That too is part of their evil plan. “Give her $3 for free and she will spend $30!”