Lew Hodgett wrote:

CVS/Pharmacy just announced they will stop selling tobacco products
in their 7600 retail stores 10/01/2114.

It will cost them at least $2 billion up front; however, long term
you
can't
buy that kind of goodwill this will generate.

Wonder whose next to join CVS?
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"Leon" wrote:

Goodwill, is that what they are calling it?

It makes good ethical sense but the customers are going to give the
competition $2 Billion worth of extra business.

Sounds like a preemptive move to perhaps dodge any law suits
Kalifornia is cooking up.
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You are a little slow Leon.

This whole thing got started when the city of San Francisco enacted
city law
prohibiting sale of tobacco products in drug stores 8-10 years ago.

CVS, as well as the big box stores, and the tobacco companies tried to
fight
it but learned again that you don't fight city hall.

Everybody else dropped their law suits against S/F.


CVS decided to not fight and instead complied so extending this across
all
7600 stores is not such a big deal for them to implement.


Lew