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
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
What the fuck, for real?
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
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
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.
Unfortunately, farmers markets are rarely open in the evening. Actually that is a bit of a business opportunity…
Me reading the headline: who tf resurrected the cvs and made an android app for it
That’s a no from me dawg
I wonder whether it ever occurs to normies that surrendering PII in order to transact amounts to hidden cost inflation
Would it make a difference if they did? Here in the UK every supermarket has a loyalty card scheme. I held out for a long time but eventually I simply couldn’t afford to pay the effective 20% premium for not using it
Depends on what value you place on your consumption data. I’d argue the scheme participants are the ones paying a premium.
Or, now hear me out, I stop shopping there.
nope, never happening.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
CVS doesn’t want a customer who has any diginity
Mentally ill CEO dreams up the perfect dystopia where the customer does everything.
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.
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.
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
“Do my job for me?”
“No.”
Fuck. This. Noise.
The poll in the article…
Would you use an app to unlock retail store displays?
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Yes. If it speeds up shopping, that’s a win for me.
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No. I don’t need an app to shop, and will just find and employee to unlock it.
Where’s the option of “no, I didn’t need it as much as I thought I did”
@howrar @dantheclamman I needed a replacement garage door remote last week. Bunnings has them locked to the shelf thing. I did bend it a fair amount but couldn’t get the thing off. Found an employee who seemed as pissed off as I was. He didn’t have a key though. So had to disappear for quite some time to find one. It’s a $60 product in a reasonable size pack. Not a $6000 item I can slip in my pocket. Another reason to shop online (I needed that item that day otherwise I would have got it online)
Or, “No, I’m not bothering to shop at CVS anymore because that’s a hassle.”
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Lol no.
