# Virginia Kroger "vaxed" people with saline AND AIR?!? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 11, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginia-kroger-vaxed-people-with-saline-and-air/937742 "2021-03-11T23:30:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginia-kroger-vaxed-people-with-saline-and-air/937742/21 "2021-03-12T14:36:49Z")
It’s a good thing the pharmacies are providing vaccines. It’s a bad thing that CVS, Walgreens and Walmart (and perhaps others as well) are exploiting the opportunity to add millions of people to their marketing databases. The COO of CVS said to the [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/cvs-walgreens-look-for-big-data-reward-from-covid-19-vaccinations-11614681180) (paywall warning), “Every one of these customers is coming through our digital front end, so we have their email, we have their text message, and we have the ability to communicate with them regularly.” Another article about this [here](https://newrepublic.com/article/161544/vaccines-free-cvs-walgreens-youre-whats-sale) at The New Republic (also paywalled) says " It’s not as if businesses aren’t expected to sell to potential customers—that’s the whole point. But the crass commercial underpinnings of America’s vaccine distribution reflect a country in which every public good has either been privatized or [relegated](https://newrepublic.com/article/161517/troops-leading-vaccination-effort) to the military, seemingly one of the last competent—and well-resourced—institutions in American life." --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virginia-kroger-vaxed-people-with-saline-and-air/937742)._