Comments on: Fired Up Friday – CVS Pharmacy Misleading Ads

By: Scott K. Johnson

Scott K. Johnson — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:40:25 +0000

Nope, not overreacting at all. It is shady business practice that prays on those of us who need supplies. And you know what they say about how many people are told about a bad experience?

By: Michael Hoskins

Michael Hoskins — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:13:36 +0000

You’re not overreacting at all, Chris. I find that disgraceful. If I were in that situation, I would have demanded that they sell me the same amount of strips for the advertised price – if not, then give me a raincheck for when they come in. The latter doesn’t help in the “need strips now” situation, but at least you’d get those marketed strips for what they were advertised for.

By: kassie

kassie — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:07:41 +0000

I don’t think you’re over reacting, it sounds like they either screwed it up on purpose or with poor planning: but either way, they screwed it up.

I took my son to their minute clinic for a sports physical and they wouldn’t do it because of his type 1. OK fine, I get the ‘cover your a**’ policy but what annoyed me was that nowhere on their website is any mention of services being limited because of chronic illness. A simple “physicals may not be available for people with certain ilnesses or recent injury” would have done it. Luckily I didn’t wait long to find out but I was still bothered!

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:24:29 +0000

Absolutely not. It’s deceitful and manipulative. I’m so sorry again about the strip snafu. I hope you are back in stock today as you expected!

By: casey

casey — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:56:52 +0000

I think you have every right to be upset. I wonder if Walgreens would have matched the sale price? hmmmm….

were they expecting a shipment in that day or anything?

I always go to CVS. We get my RXs through mail order, but I buy other stuff there. I know it is expensive. I think I go there because I worked at a CVS in high school. Plus I like to print out the coupons at the store with my extracare card. Yes- I shop too much!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:42:36 +0000

That seems to be like that with other health conditions. I myself who buys test strips can’t figure out why they coast so much.