# I walked out of a CVS yesterday over 16 cents...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 25, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-walked-out-of-a-cvs-yesterday-over-16-cents/478654 "2008-12-25T14:58:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-walked-out-of-a-cvs-yesterday-over-16-cents/478654/101 "2009-01-01T06:40:11Z")

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I just don’t understand why the poster is getting a roast. I would not have done that but respect his rights to query. And I agree with Eutychus- the manager could have made an “executive” decision to accept 16 cents less.

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2009, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-walked-out-of-a-cvs-yesterday-over-16-cents/478654/102 "2009-01-01T06:46:12Z")

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CVS sucks in so many ways I wouldn’t be able to walk in to begin with, except that they’ve taken over all the other local drugstores around here.

Messy, Wal-Mart style appearance? Check.

Too many stand-up displays in the aisles making it hard to maneuver a cart? Check.

Not nearly as many of the odds and ends that you used to be able to count on the old store to have? Check.

Stupid-ass, individual queues for each cashier, so you always wind up in the slow line? Check.

Stupid-ass counter configuration that demeans you by making you unload, and then reload your basket–compared to the excellent, smart-ass system where the checker unloads and reloads, and pulls the cart straight through? Check.\*

\*(Didn’t Piggly Wiggly work out the revolutionary, pull-the-cart-through system around 1917? Why would anyone not do that now?)

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