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I changed the name of the thread because I think that Q's CVS Lounge gives a better representation of what the thread is about. This isn't a deals thread although I will sometimes be posting deals. I'll probably talk more about Transylvania and the stock market than I will about the drugstores but the main thing is that is that I want this to be a cool place to hang out.
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11-12-2015 at 11:41 AM.
11-12-2015 at 11:41 AM.
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You can still do Wag's this week. Then Sunday do at CVS 2/$8 get $4 ECB. free after BOGO coupons.
Of course you can only do as many as you have cards for. Its only good Sunday 11/15 as coupons expire that day.
Thanks for the tip. I'm still incredibly irritated with myself that I didn't look at the ad until Wednesday. That's one of the drawbacks of being over here instead of the drugstore forum. I miss a lot of deals now that I used to catch because I was already there. Now I just come here most of the time. It was a huge mistake this week but I'm just venting. I'll get over it even though I really did blow my BF at Wags. I'll probably skip it now and just stay home like a normal person... laugh out loud

Tresemme is red hot right now but Pantene is ice cold. It's not selling at all at my sale (as in zero). I don't want more Pantene even for free. Of course, when you add in the $10 in booster points (it was $10 here) it made the deal a lot more attractive. It costs me $20 in gas to shop at Wags. My first store is 60 miles away so it's not like CVS where I can hit a store a mile.

I'm getting $4/$14 Pantene crt's at CVS so that would be 4 for free but I still don't want it. Sunday should also be the last day for Haagen. Lots of oddball stuff at 90% off (probably). They have been ok with "o" on q's so far so Sunday could be interesting. At the Haagen clearance sale a month ago, I picked up 20 Schick cartridge packs for 90% off. They were all out there on the table that morning. Hadn't seen them before when I was at the store.
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11-12-2015 at 11:48 AM.
11-12-2015 at 11:48 AM.
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so let me ask you, what is your overall time-line for investing? it would make your intentions a lot more clear. and maybe you should look into money market or short term bond funds at least instead of the bank. online bank rates are better than b&m. but all depends on when you need your money to be liquid.
I have no idea what my plans are. I'm not looking forward to 4 months of solid rain starting in Dec (if the El Nino forecasts are right). If my hip were doing better, I'd do my sale on Saturday and then hop on a plane for Hawaii on Monday and spend the next 6 months surfing. I've seriously been thinking about it. I can leave here anytime I want to and I used to live in Hawaii so it wouldn't be a big adjustment other than I wouldn't have to shop every stupid day like I do now.
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11-12-2015 at 12:08 PM.
11-12-2015 at 12:08 PM.
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I have no idea what my plans are. I'm not looking forward to 4 months of solid rain starting in Dec (if the El Nino forecasts are right). If my hip were doing better, I'd do my sale on Saturday and then hop on a plane for Hawaii on Monday and spend the next 6 months surfing. I've seriously been thinking about it. I can leave here anytime I want to and I used to live in Hawaii so it wouldn't be a big adjustment other than I wouldn't have to shop every stupid day like I do now.
not the time to look at investing. as long as you have a rainy day fund and you decide to go to Hawaii, you may want to shop around for online money market rates or 6-month CD's. anything better than just leaving it in a savings or checking acct for 6 months.
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11-12-2015 at 12:17 PM.
11-12-2015 at 12:17 PM.
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to be very clear, not picking on you, just would love to hear more success stories if you want to invest. however, for the stock market we'd need to be around in 7 yrs to see the final results. i'm not a good investor either but i think discussing it can help us all do better, or at least make me not so lazy about it. also, i'm one of those *do as i say, not do as i do* people. my friends do well by doing what i tell them. now if only i would not be so lazy and take my own advice.....
The Street (Jim Cramer) just came out and said the same thing I did about CVS stock and recommended shorting it. Here's the thing. I think CVS is falling due to the Target deal. Wall St doesn't like it but I think it's a home run for CVS (and a huge mistake for Target). Why would you let CVS inside 1700 of your stores? It's obvious that CVS knows how to run a pharmacy. The big problem is that these analysts don't know what they're talking about. We know a lot more than they do. Most of them haven't been inside a CVS for 3 years. They have no idea what's really going on. They just look at numbers on paper. One analysts said about the Wags/RA merger that it was good because customers already have too many drugstore choices. That analyst had to be on drugs herself. Then they say that Wags and RA are a good synergy. No they're not. Two completely different companies with two completely different sets of customers. Then they say that the merger will be good for customers. No it won't. Nobody thinks that except the analysts. Do you know what everybody here is concerned about? They don't want Thrifty ice cream to go away. If Wags discontinues the ice cream when they take over, they will have a full on riot on their hands and I'm not kidding about this. People will be so pissed off that it will doom the merger. Analysts just don't have a clue. Also, RA does a huge amount of beer business and I mean huge. Wags doesn't. See what I mean about synergy. There is none.
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11-12-2015 at 12:26 PM.
11-12-2015 at 12:26 PM.
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not the time to look at investing. as long as you have a rainy day fund and you decide to go to Hawaii, you may want to shop around for online money market rates or 6-month CD's. anything better than just leaving it in a savings or checking acct for 6 months.
I think the market is getting ready for another correction and could drop into the 15000's. I want to have my money available in case that happens. With the Fed likely to raise the rate in Dec, a sell-off is very possible. Sept/Oct went up because Yellen said no rate hike. Now with the good jobs report we're going to be headed for a crash. That's why Yellen talks in nonsense. She can't say we're going to raise the rate because then the market will fall 2000 points.
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11-12-2015 at 12:41 PM.
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The Street (Jim Cramer) just came out and said the same thing I did about CVS stock and recommended shorting it. Here's the thing. I think CVS is falling due to the Target deal. Wall St doesn't like it but I think it's a home run for CVS (and a huge mistake for Target). Why would you let CVS inside 1700 of your stores? It's obvious that CVS knows how to run a pharmacy. The big problem is that these analysts don't know what they're talking about. We know a lot more than they do. Most of them haven't been inside a CVS for 3 years. They have no idea what's really going on. They just look at numbers on paper. One analysts said about the Wags/RA merger that it was good because customers already have too many drugstore choices. That analyst had to be on drugs herself. Then they say that Wags and RA are a good synergy. No they're not. Two completely different companies with two completely different sets of customers. Then they say that the merger will be good for customers. No it won't. Nobody thinks that except the analysts. Do you know what everybody here is concerned about? They don't want Thrifty ice cream to go away. If Wags discontinues the ice cream when they take over, they will have a full on riot on their hands and I'm not kidding about this. People will be so pissed off that it will doom the merger. Analysts just don't have a clue. Also, RA does a huge amount of beer business and I mean huge. Wags doesn't. See what I mean about synergy. There is none.
cuz target is not making good money running the pharmacy so they want to sublet the business and focus on what they know how to do. there is a lot of this going on everywhere. at SNS (regional dutch-owned supermarket chain) the stationary/office supply dept is stocked by staples. good for cvs b/c they don't have to deal w/ front end, just Rx, which is where they make all their money and front end is just to lure customers in.

nobody talks about thrifty ice cream here. never heard of it till you talked about it. must be a regional thing. i would say here it's haagen dazs (so i was confused for a second when you first started talking about haagen), ben and jerrys, turkey hill, breyers, carvel cakes and friendlys distantly behind them.

beer and liquor sales are regional too. in this area beer and wine have to be sold in liquor stores, except costco, but they only sell liquor, not beer. in NY liquor has to be sold at liquor stores but beer can be sold at supermarkets, but cvs, rite aid and wags don't carry. then in PA all liquor and beer has to be sold at state liquor stores. so that all depends.
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11-12-2015 at 01:03 PM.
11-12-2015 at 01:03 PM.
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cuz target is not making good money running the pharmacy so they want to sublet the business and focus on what they know how to do. there is a lot of this going on everywhere. at SNS (regional dutch-owned supermarket chain) the stationary/office supply dept is stocked by staples. good for cvs b/c they don't have to deal w/ front end, just Rx, which is where they make all their money and front end is just to lure customers in.

nobody talks about thrifty ice cream here. never heard of it till you talked about it. must be a regional thing. i would say here it's haagen dazs (so i was confused for a second when you first started talking about haagen), ben and jerrys, turkey hill, breyers, carvel cakes and friendlys distantly behind them.

beer and liquor sales are regional too. in this area beer and wine have to be sold in liquor stores, except costco, but they only sell liquor, not beer. in NY liquor has to be sold at liquor stores but beer can be sold at supermarkets, but cvs, rite aid and wags don't carry. then in PA all liquor and beer has to be sold at state liquor stores. so that all depends.
I'd say 50% of RA's traffic is beer customers. RA also does huge ice cream counter business. Most people here think that Thrifty is the best ice cream in the frozen section and will be pissed if it goes away because of the merger. RA makes a ton of profit on the beer customers. They pay retail for everything else they get. If RA closes and the beer customers have to go to Wags, they'll say forget it and go to 7-11 instead. 7-11 will probably be the big winner in all of this. I think Wags has too big of an ego to keep Thrifty brand ice cream. They'll go with Nice.
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11-12-2015 at 01:07 PM.
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I'd say 50% of RA's traffic is beer customers. RA also does huge ice cream counter business. Most people here think that Thrifty is the best ice cream in the frozen section and will be pissed if it goes away because of the merger. RA makes a ton of profit on the beer customers. They pay retail for everything else they get. If RA closes and the beer customers have to go to Wags, they'll say forget it and go to 7-11 instead. 7-11 will probably be the big winner in all of this. I think Wags has too big of an ego to keep Thrifty brand ice cream. They'll go with Nice.
we don't have any of that here at our stores. here it really just depends on which store is closest b/c RA, Wags and CVS pretty much the same. the only difference really is store hrs. more wags here are open 24hrs than RA and CVS.
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11-12-2015 at 01:14 PM.
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we don't have any of that here at our stores. here it really just depends on which store is closest b/c RA, Wags and CVS pretty much the same. the only difference really is store hrs. more wags here are open 24hrs than RA and CVS.
You go to RA for beer and CVS for hard liquor. I don't know what you go to Wags for - abuse? laugh out loud
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11-12-2015 at 02:36 PM.
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cuz target is not making good money running the pharmacy so they want to sublet the business and focus on what they know how to do. there is a lot of this going on everywhere. at SNS (regional dutch-owned supermarket chain) the stationary/office supply dept is stocked by staples. good for cvs b/c they don't have to deal w/ front end, just Rx, which is where they make all their money and front end is just to lure customers in.

nobody talks about thrifty ice cream here. never heard of it till you talked about it. must be a regional thing. i would say here it's haagen dazs (so i was confused for a second when you first started talking about haagen), ben and jerrys, turkey hill, breyers, carvel cakes and friendlys distantly behind them.

beer and liquor sales are regional too. in this area beer and wine have to be sold in liquor stores, except costco, but they only sell liquor, not beer. in NY liquor has to be sold at liquor stores but beer can be sold at supermarkets, but cvs, rite aid and wags don't carry. then in PA all liquor and beer has to be sold at state liquor stores. so that all depends.
My area, too. I know you're in my 'region'. As you state, never heard of 'Thrifty' and we don't have "Blue Bell', either. That must be a Southern brand. Only heard of it here.

In NH, beer and wine can be sold at supermarkets, but hard liquor only at state run Liquor stores.
In Jersey, beer, wine and hard liquor are only sold in licensed liquor stores. Not sure if you can get beer or wine in supermarkets anymore. I know years ago you could get beer, but don't know specific laws on that. Haven't seen any booza anywhere other than liquor stores.
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11-12-2015 at 03:05 PM.
11-12-2015 at 03:05 PM.
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I'd say 50% of RA's traffic is beer customers. RA also does huge ice cream counter business. Most people here think that Thrifty is the best ice cream in the frozen section and will be pissed if it goes away because of the merger. RA makes a ton of profit on the beer customers. They pay retail for everything else they get. If RA closes and the beer customers have to go to Wags, they'll say forget it and go to 7-11 instead. 7-11 will probably be the big winner in all of this. I think Wags has too big of an ego to keep Thrifty brand ice cream. They'll go with Nice.
You're right about Thrifty ice cream, it is an institution here and no one wants to see it go away.

RA may do a big business in beer, but I'm not sure how much they profit from it. The store in OB needs to hire a security guard full time, every time I'm there I see people walk out with 12 packs.
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11-12-2015 at 03:12 PM.
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You go to RA for beer and CVS for hard liquor. I don't know what you go to Wags for - abuse? laugh out loud
I think RA has better prices on beer and hard liquor. But I do see people stealing more beer from RA and liquor from CVS, but maybe it's the neighborhood. I was in a CVS when someone walked out with a bottle of liquor and an employee said he did that every day.
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11-12-2015 at 09:19 PM.
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I think RA has better prices on beer and hard liquor. But I do see people stealing more beer from RA and liquor from CVS, but maybe it's the neighborhood. I was in a CVS when someone walked out with a bottle of liquor and an employee said he did that every day.
I wasn't aware that there was an alcohol theft problem. I've seen a lot of other stuff happen but I can't say that I've ever seen anybody steal beer. Of course, I'm not supposed to see it.so maybe the crooks are really good... laugh out loud
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11-12-2015 at 11:52 PM.
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I wasn't aware that there was an alcohol theft problem. I've seen a lot of other stuff happen but I can't say that I've ever seen anybody steal beer. Of course, I'm not supposed to see it.so maybe the crooks are really good... laugh out loud
At the OB store it's hard to miss, people just walk right out with it. The cashiers sometimes ask if they paid yet but they just keep walking. I've seen a cashier walk out after them, but they start running as soon as they reach the door. At the CVS I wouldn't have noticed except the cashier pointed it out and told me he did it every day.
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At the OB store it's hard to miss, people just walk right out with it. The cashiers sometimes ask if they paid yet but they just keep walking. I've seen a cashier walk out after them, but they start running as soon as they reach the door. At the CVS I wouldn't have noticed except the cashier pointed it out and told me he did it every day.
There were some kids who used to come into Wags every day and steal candy. One day the cashier told them to put the candy back and not to ever come back to the store if they were going to steal. One of the kids went home and told his dad. His dad called corporate and corporate called the store manager and told him that he had to issue the dad a $50 gift card. True story...

At another drugstore (can't say the name), somebody was stealing some alcohol and the store manager screamed at the cashier to stop him. The cashier just stood there by the front door. The crook bumped into the cashier as he was running out of the store. The cashier got fired. Again, true story...
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