I honestly can't remember the last time I went to a CVS. Definitely before Covid hit. I can't even imagine going now.
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I'm just not gonna shop at CVS
CVS doesn't want a customer who has any diginity
They want the data to sell to Meta and OpenAI to perfect their AI's
I am sure CVS will not assume the worst when I buy three 12 packs of Magnum XL, two bottles of NyQuil, six cans of Monster Energy and a roll of duct tape.
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Buh bye CVS, I wish I could say it was fun. It's amazing how quickly a corp can become a corpse.
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If everyone has a key, what's the point of locking the products? Maybe next they'll have public mag keys available at the entrance?
The point is they know from your app login who opened which case when, so if shit goes missing, they'll know who stole it. That's the point.
There's no timestamp for when things go missing, though.
I can’t wait until store shelves are set up like those janky pressure sensitive hotel minibars
there are regular inventories, and most likely smart cases with time recording on tap (most even low digit inventory is rfid chipped these days, so even if it doesn't set off an alarm when taken out of the store, that shit is being recorded when it triggers)
I guess if they discover shrink, they'll have a log of when it was accessed, and could cross reference camera footage, then track down the account and blacklist it or prosecute... no loss prevention is going to do all this lol.
Genuine question, do I need to show an ID to make a CVS account? Use a real name? How could they reliably link the digital account to a person?
They probably just ask for your name and link it to the info they already have about you
If you fill a prescription or use a credit card, that's a very solid link to your identity. The app also probably is collecting all the data it can on you to resell, most of which can be used to fingerprint you through a data broker
They might also require an ID, but all of it is probably more an intimation tactic and stunt for investors than anything else
No way I'd install their app though
My pixel has what's called a "private" profile. It allows you to tie a different Google account to the apps downloaded to that profile.
So I would install the CVS app on that profile, find public credentials for the app (or create one with and then publish them). Use the app to unlock the shelf. Leave it open or unshelf everything.
Or just don't shop there.
yeah i dunno the ins and outs of that, but the app most likely reports on your devices iemi, so regardless of what throwaway email address you use to sign up, if you bought that device, the cell company has your deets, also if they're making you connect to the cvs wifi, then their router will have that devices MAC address, and most like grab it's iemi information as well
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.
My first choice of action would be to walk out the door. My second choice of action would be to walk out the door.
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
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.
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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
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.
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Mentally ill CEO dreams up the perfect dystopia where the customer does everything.
I don't mind doing it, if I have access to the pharmacy/prescription department.
If they could, I bet they'd try to implement a discount system for time spent stocking shelves
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That’s a great idea if the goal is to make sure I don’t shop at CVS anymore.
"Do my job for me?"
"No."
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.
Succinct, I would like you to consider becoming CVS's next CTO.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
This is dystopian level privacy nightmare.
nope, never happening.