Exclusive: CVS explores options including potential break-up, sources say

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11. I think this is ironic,

since CVS bought up all the Mom and Pop pharmacies in town. I hated that... you actually get a relationship going with a drugstore, a pharmacist and then these big corporations come in, buy them out, and shut them down. And to your point, not only is there a line, but the time they tell you to come in and pick up your med is never right... they tell you 3pm, and you still wait there until they put it together. It's like only if you're standing there is there any pressure to actually fill the script.

I recently quit CVS; moved all my scripts over to the pharmacy in Dillon's. CVS never had my hydrocodone in stock. And, even if I called a day early, and they had it at that time, they wouldn't put it together and hold it until the next day when I was "allowed" to pick it up. Not only that, but I was continually getting "attitude" from CVS pharmacists when I'd fill a couple of scripts, the hydro included. One time I really did tell the guy... "look, live a day in my body and THEN talk smack to me."