A. Bug an employee even where this system is implemented.
B. If I had no other choice than to use the app: Open the cabinet, take a dozen products, close the cabinet, “decide” against buying some and leave them on an adjacent shelf.
(Edit) C: just “forget” to close the shelf. I’m not trained to handle their BS system.
Just take the shelf apart. I’m sure it’s just some shitty plastic flap with a crappy lock. Cheapest crap they can get.
If the Walmart/target cases are anything to go by, it’s a basic universal tubular lock. You can by a decoder/pick for like $10
Depending on where you live it is illegal to possess lock picking tools unless you are a licensed locksmith. Something about “intent to commit a crime.”
Yeah, but that’s a key, not a lockpick
Yeah but they’re a little tricky to use, you can’t just bump them.
Also I would not recommend doing it at all in the first place.
I swear I’ve seen people use bump keys on high quality tubular locks before.
You’re right but it’s funny to think that you could be hassled for breaking into a box with the intention of purchasing its contents.
Hey, no shop…ing?
D) Turn around and shop elsewhere
My first choice of action would be to walk out the door. My second choice of action would be to walk out the door.
D. Staff just leave them unlocked because it’s in a “dead” network spot and nothing reliably connects or store requires users to be on their Wi-Fi
“Do my job for me?”
“No.”
Lol no.
That’s a no from me dawg
Fuck the very idea of buying anything at CVS other than a prescription. Their prices are predatory high.
And I wouldn’t install their fucking app on Bea Arthur’s phone.
Some stores have started requiring the app to get your prescription. Happened to me. They actually made me install the app before they would fill my Rx. I stopped using that store and went to another neighborhood.
I just got a prescription yesterday and that didn’t happen so hopefully they don’t roll it out everywhere. I would find a different pharmacy.
I pick up a client’s meds as part of my job. It’s through Safeway, and I can’t get text notifications anymore when they are ready for pickup, I have to use the app, and I have to have push notifications turned on, so more than half of the notifications are some BS ad for safeway, trying to tempt me into buying bread or some shit. The guy takes over twenty medications, so it’s kind of a nightmare.
That’s almost worth having a dedicated burner phone for.
Sounds like it’s time for a new pharmacy.
Your options are:
Walgreens
Some pharmacy on the other side of town that’s failing because they’re getting overcharged for drugs (if you’re lucky)
Yes, this is the problem. Not much choice, and most of the corporate ones are moving to various shitty practices. Oddly enough, many of the big corporate chains are now closing locations en masse, such as Rite Aid
Costco, and lots of online ones
We use our grocery store. Seems to work well. My store doesn’t even have an app, just a website, and the loyalty card isn’t needed for discounts, only for points I’ll never use so I don’t bother with it.
This is dystopian level privacy nightmare.
Hard no to that. As if they are denying people medicine because they want to harvest your information.
Should be illegal. But corpos own this country so here we are.
Depending on how primary care works where you are
tell your doctor too
Sometimes they don’t hear about the problems with pharmacies or other places they refer people to. Letting them know means that they can send people elsewhere
Succinct, I would like you to consider becoming CVS’s next CTO.
They want the data to sell to Meta and OpenAI to perfect their AI’s
CVS wants me to stop shopping with them.
I’ll just goto a fucking supermarket. It’s faster. Yes, even with the checkouts.
Many supermarkets are enshittifying/rent seeking too though
I’ve been looking into the local veggie co-op. You pay for the season and you can pick up a box of veggies once a week, all locally sourced. I’d go to the farmers market, but I’m worried it’ll just be a bunch of people selling marked up veggies they got from the grocery store.
Fortunately, at the farmers market, you can usually look up the farmer. Eg, visit once or twice just observing, seeing who gets visited by regulars, Google the farm name to look up details and reviews, etc
Will do. Cleaning up the sourcing of my food for both health and political reasons is a goal of mine for 2025. If I can grow it, trade it, or get it from a farmer locally, the supermarkets can take the loss.
Buh bye CVS, I wish I could say it was fun. It’s amazing how quickly a corp can become a corpse.
Yeah, shopping at CVS was never something I’d consider enjoyable, it was a thing I did occasionally if I needed something and was nearby. Now I’ll go the extra half block to a different store. Screw 'em.
Access would require being logged into the CVS app and connected to the store’s Wi-Fi
Wow. I had to check if the page is the onion
On their wifi? No thanks.
For this to work, you need to download and install the app, and sign up for CVS’ loyalty program. In the store, you need to be logged into the app and connected to the store’s Wi-Fi, and have Bluetooth turned on.
And drink verification can
nope, never happening.
CVS doesn’t want a customer who has any diginity
Fuck. This. Noise.
I’m just not gonna shop at CVS
How about I just don’t shop there?
Mentally ill CEO dreams up the perfect dystopia where the customer does everything.
Do you actually want to stand there while someone is called over to unlock these? I get nothing out of that service experience. Would far rather press a button in an app. It’s just dumb that things are behind glass in the first place.
If they could, I bet they’d try to implement a discount system for time spent stocking shelves
They drool for the possibility of this.
Not only techno fascism, just ordinary fascism. You know where the companies controls the government and vice versa.
I don’t mind doing it, if I have access to the pharmacy/prescription department.
