Merlo says “ gone are the current stores with a pharmacy in the back” the new concept will be health hubs. Store remodels begin Jan 2019. There will be some items that remain in the front but most space will be health services. Retail front store according to Larry has become less and less important and only represent a very small portion of overall sales with health services at 90 percent, He says the front end space will be repurposed and will begin immediately. By making such changes 700 million dollars will be saved immediately.! New services in these spaces will provide much more revenue than current offerings So front store employees do you now believe? Do not buy your DL bull of how important you are and none of this is true. They know what is about to happen to you, Do not trust these liars
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You’re obviously an overpaid member of the pharmacy who’s never had to work for a living. Stand and make 80 bucks an hour. Get a life. You’re turn to be treated as disposable may come. Everyone is replaceable in the world of cvs. They don’t care a path to better health. Lining Merlo’s Pocket is a priority
Jobs in retail are a dime a dozen. Sometimes in life doors close. It's up to you to make new doors open.
Unfortunately most pharmacists dont know how to deal with people, so if they count on them to deal with employee issues and all the customer/patient complaints it's going to get messy.
Guess what ? That will soon end and you will need to find a pay check. Front store employees really really you need to find a new job. You have been warned !
Completely accurate, and all this while supposedly sitting in the office, lol.
Hmmm. You're right it's not hard. But maybe this sheds light on the load vs time we now have.
Come early to open store, count safe, collect drawers and take to FS registers, take registers to pharmacy, back to office. Verify last night deposit in binder. Activate price changes, hang 100-200 price changes throughout store, complete price changes in computer, daily compliance checklist, check temps and dates on milk, clean checkout restock supplies. Cashier for 3 hours alone, complete photo orders, check-in vendors, redo check-in, file invoices, check outdated merch for every piece of candy in store, check outdates in every piece of baby food, outdates for cough and cold etc, face and recover entire store, cycle counts, quick pick sales floor and find in stockroom, stock sales floor, another vendor at back door, go to bank, count safe when return from bank, help angry customer, work in RX because they ask for help, get change for FS, Get change for RX, input vaca day for employee, write a schedule, adjust schedule, condense entire seasonal, convert entire seasonal aisle, label and sign entire seasonal, get two other 6 hour long planograms done, stick new items, new item cut in, vacuum entire store, take out trash, receive truck, sort entire truck, work entire 7 PALLETS of truck, remove all old sale signs entire store, hang new sale signs entire store, convert endcap work items to home and fill new endcap, sign every endcap, sign all wings, sign all wine and beer, print hub task price changes, print and hang clearance signs, hub task to remove clearance and print full price label again, 2 hour DL visit, weekly cashier analysis report review and signatures, my impact conversations on iPad, email hiring center, conduct interviews, schedule training, train new hire, finish truck, clean shelves, clean bathrooms, clean breakroom, walk customers to item, search for customer request items in stockroom, watch for theft, sticker eas tags on theft items, MSH review, MCE daily comments review, coach teams, follow up on previous tasks, product withdrawals, RFCs, push entire stockroom, return items to stock room, scan all damages, work overnight for cosmetic resets, 2 hour LP visit, file all invoices, print and review BOH change report, conduct 1 on 1 coaching plan adjust BOH, conference calls, call stores to find coverage for FS or RX, manage payroll and correct missing punches, more hub tasks and info tasks to review and complete - some small some big, post item recalls, hazardous waste management, cashier again for 2 hours, handle coupon issues that you refuse to learn, put up sign kits, check in ups vendor delivery, review vendor order, IAR review, mandatory meeting, stock coupon center, fix broken equipment, call in service channel for equipment failure, fill photo paper, stock coolers, handle complaint in rx or fs phone call, count safe again, count all registers, fix money error in RX or FS, complete daily deposit, count safe, fill out CAR report, etc.... etc...
You're right, it's not hard. But, it's about the time it takes. A lot of these take hours... most are daily, weekly, and some just monthly.
Try doing this as the 1 person in the Front... who is expected to do this while being a cashier. There's much more, I'm just tired of typing to prove your ignorance... Time vs Expectation is ridiculous. While I could be focused on management controllables and profit, guiding you on best practices and execution that creates efficiency and profitability to gain the most return and increase mcp... Instead I'm forced to be your cashier and janitor... not by choice. But by "demand".
As a pharmacist my front store manager had been a huge help. The first commenter is just being an a--hole
Big realignment will be announced around Dec 18 nd take effect Jan 16. Regional combinations and districts reduced to half of what we have now. Back to the bench for many
It’s not that it takes a “brain scientist” it just takes time. And no one’s talking about a degree they’re taking about doing their job. . Ugh. Meanwhile in response to this doom and gloom my advice is to calm down. Do your job while you have it and don’t live in fear. If you lose this job you’ll find another one. We don’t know what types of jobs might open up for CVS this is supposed to be about growth.
Everytime I read a post from a pharmacist it's childish and just flat out ignorant. The difference between myself and a Pharmacist is that I went to business school and they went to pharmacy school. Does that make a pharmacist better than me??? Shouldn't talk down to people you don't know. Never know when your going to need someone in your corner.
Sorry but can’t help but think how msh got us in this position! Mother Fing small volume stores said to be excellent stores because of a damn score of 4.0 when they added nothing to the sales and profits of the company, while large volume stores were constantly attached for low scores yet were doing all the sales and making all the profit! So take your 4.0 and shove it. Business is about sales and profits. Did you hear Larry say anything about your great scores and how your sales added value to the enterprise? Smile you ran us out of a job. Nothing nothing nothing outways sales or did your mba not cover that?
Would not have put it that way but the end is near for many . One group will flourish one group will not , you guess which is which. Everything you have changed over this last year was to prepare stores to move forward in 2019. If you feel insecure please do what is right for your family and dO not be tricked into holding out hope that you will survive this transition. Our district of 10 stores has loss 6 managers this month that moved on , inexpensive smit are running 6 stores, they were also the bottom of the barrel shifts and Rx DL is clueless.
interesting how he says front store retail is a small portion yet on the financial results it is 24% of revenue of overall store locations and 2 billion in profit for LY. Pharmacy profit was 6 billion and PBM services 6 billion. Retail isn't as flashy as the others but it does produce a healthy recurring margin for the company.
With your fancy degree you'd think you would know the difference between "here" and "hear".
But you are probably the lowest form of human being. I assume you're a pharmacist and you are counted on to help and be there for people but you celebrate the idea of people losing their jobs? Yeah... This company is going in a great direction.
Front store has never been important. Assistant managers thought they were king of the world just 3-4 years ago and now you put back shopping carts at Walmart. Same thing now for FS managers. Sorry but your job is not hard. There is too much downtime and that is your fault. You all complain about FS hours well here you go, try 0 hours in the front now.
All I here is FS managers leave company is done blah blah on here. Really? Tell me, how hard is your job? It takes a brain scientist to put up signs? How about CFR? It takes a heart surgeon to do that? Oh pushing carts from the back? Yup you need a doctorate degree right? Oh now I see, your daily walks you have to go to Harvard right? They teach you that? 90% of CVS FS can’t even do this sh*t right now lmaooo what makes you think we will fail without you? Please tell me?
You see you FS managers, Keep telling yourself CVS will fail without you, we will actually flourish. You are all literally worthless to the company as a expense. Enjoy your last few weeks/months you losers. My sources have confirmed its over for you.