Walgreens vs. CVS
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- These are the 2 largest drugstore chains out there. I doubt many of us can even name another one that's still in business. This video talks about how they came to dominate the industry, the different paths they took to do it, and finally some modern comparisons.
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Walgreens feels like small grocery store with a pharmacy, CVS feels like a pharmacy with s small grocery store.
Hey. I would like to go to an all inclusive Walgreen's in Bloomington, Minnesota I know they have them 'cuz I've seen them online.
But I haven't seen one in my neck of the woods. 😞
Yeah thats the vibe i get too
takethisyousob Independent pharmacy if they are available in your area. Most I’ve seen have a much more appreciation for their customers and more willing to work with them.
@@ThisIsMrJ13 or rite aid. That's who I think of for convenience store/pharmacy needs.
ebels3 same, I’ve mostly gone to rite aid for over the counter drugs
Fun fact about Walgreens that you left out: During prohibition they took advantage of a loophole that allowed you to get liquor by prescription, and that's when they saw major expansion.
VideoSuperMaster They were a dispensary.
Yeah that seems like some Walgreens energy
and in the modern era they refused to stop selling cigarettes until they had too. Don’t blame them, half of the processed food sold in these places is terrible for us as well 😅
Medicinal alcohol 🤣
Yep
Walgreens and CVS: whose sign makes a better birds nest?
Guess Walgreens as in the video there was one in almost every a in their store logos.
Yeah^
Lol
Matthew Sommerville walgreens
Matthew Sommerville lmao this comment made me laugh
I've worked at CVS for years now and I have to say that it's the single most poorly ran company in the country. Every store has no more than 2 employees at a time, hours are constantly slashed yet everyone is pushed to their limits to finish what needs to be done, and workers are treated like objects. We are supposed to close at midnight yet are forced to work shirt shifts and close early because of how many hours we have. Our union is fighting for us as we speak, as CVS is attempting to decrease our wages. Our WAGES. The only thing on their mind is money, and they'll ruin everything for us in order to save that much more. However, they don't give a SHIT about theft. For a company that cares so much about money, we're forced to try to prevent theft and deal with thieves ourselves, and not single day goes by without at least one person stealing something. I've witnessed 4 separate robberies of over a thousand dollars too. Plus, since it's only 2 people at a time at night things can get dangerously. I've had plenty of people threaten to hurt me and someone was even waiting for me outside until luckily a cop showed up before we closed. All this and CVS still doesn't care one bit about us, the only thing it'll take for them to wake up is something bad to happen. Oh, and the way COVID was handled was atrocious and should've been illegal, but I won't go into detail about that unless someone asks. People are starting to notice the though, and sales are starting to dip hard in our district. Instead of lowering the crazy high prices or giving us enough people or upgraded equipment that isn't from 2005, they introduced carepass.
CVS is a terrible company, I hope we go down under one day. I can't wait to leave.
I always liked Walgreens better
That's why CVS needs more love and support
thats horrible
You had all this time to post this, you can also update your resume and leave. No one is holding you hostage😂
And it's still happening
Every cvs near where I lived at was creepy af
Crackheads running around dirty floors messed up lights Idk maybe I just lived in shitty places but Walgreens always brighter and cleaner
The inside is nice but there are homeless around the area 😂 But for Walgreens it’s in-between 4 schools so everyone goes there
The ones in my area are always near liquor stores. Also attracting creeps and such
lmao complete opposite for me
You're not wrong; the vibe in Walgreens is always better. That said, I think CVS gives you better deals. It's such an odd business model; mark up prices on everything you can get cheaper at a grocery store, but give coupons to bring those prices down, and occasionally even below MSRP.
I think they kill half the trees in the US with their receipts.
I agree Walgreens is always cleaner
CVS and Walgreens are always across the street from each other
Tyra Lee that’s because they are both trying to put their stores in the best spot possible
which is why there are corners with like 3 gas station or why car dealerships are all next to each other
The it’s a rite aid down the street
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW THAT lol
CROSS THE STREET THEN!
YEESSSS where I live there is a walgreens in the corner of the street, and on the other block in front there's a cvs lol
I always prefer to shop at Walg- (looks for signs that tells me which store I'm in) ... CVS.
Jason Fischer they are like almost the same to me
@@nachosNipples Yep. I just went to one a few hours ago. I swear I'm not sure which one. I think that it was CVS, but I can't guarantee that.
The one with carpet is not walgreens
I always get Walmart and Walgreens mixed up.
@@ne2448 don't forget, the one that sells cigarettes is not CVS.
CVS receipt lengths are longer than my future
@LavenderLumosCVS: yeah points that youve earned but you dont know untill after the purchase something then you have 24 hr to spend more money in the store with the recipe saved or it expires. Then if you try spending that dollar after expires you can't, but soon as you buy something you have a dollar again to make you come back like a mouse to get the cheese.
Walgreens: you have 2 dollars worth of points would you like to use It on your current purchase?
Me: it could all be soo simple
ha.
Ashley Croft not as long as the receipts at this store called menards. shit's like two feet long
Sad times indeed.
@@nachosNipples ehh, I have bought a single candy bar and received a nearly 5 ft receipt from CVS. The money they save printing normal length receipts could double their profits. hah google "cvs receipt meme", there are some good ones.. i.chzbgr.com/full/9245311232/h1274B77D/
it feels weird watching a video about the place you work. 😭
Wherever you work is where I want to be!!
congratulations
I felt this as a walgreens worker 😂
Fr lol
It feels weird watching a video about the place you used to work 😅
In my experience, the CVS locations I’ve gone into are always dingy and dirty with poor customer service. Walgreens on the other hand has brighter, cleaner stores with better customer service.
Cyborg Magm4r I like Walgreens more as well
Makes sense, the type of training we get is 80% customer service.
I've had the opposite, surprisingly.
@@MrAnnoyingalien Guess it really comes down to location.
Weird. In Dallas Atleast all the cvs locations are clean, modern designs, and have a welcoming group of staff, it’s the Walgreens that never has a fully lit up sign that sketches me out
Too bad both companies don't care for their employees anymore.
To be honest, no company does.
Who does anymore?
Mc Donald's is SHOOK
I heard Cosco treats their employees fairly well compared to most companies
It’s so true. I worked for both companies as a manager and neither one gives a damn. We never even got Christmas Day off. I know that some places are open. But the pharmacy staff had the day off. Basically if you don’t work in the pharmacy, they don’t care about you
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CVS costs more to cover the receipt paper expense when they give you a 12 foot print out for the lone box of milk duds you bought...
CVS prices are much higher than Walgreens.
well 11.5 ft of it are discounts and coupons for products that are still more expensive than the avg competitor. Even after said discount.
🤣🤣
You can get digital receipts at CVS and get no paper receipt or choose to email and print and the coupons don’t print but the normal receipt does. Totally normal receipt sizes in that case.
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I wish CVS and Walgreens still had the counter for ice cream and milkshakes.
@@voozoo1606 Rite Aide has a counter for ice cream and shakes?
@@voozoo1606 Darn. There used to be a rite aide 10 minutes from my house, and they didn't have anything like that. I'd love to have a drug store where I could sit at a counter and eat ice cream.
@@LOAblue ,
Unfortunately, they don't have a booth to sit down at while you enjoy their Thrifty Ice Cream.
Every Rite Aid I've been to has an ice cream counter
Rite Aid does not have a counter for ice cream or milkshakes. I would know I worked at one before we converted into a Walgreens.
I've been a pharmacist since the mid 70s. You glossed over another big difference. CVS started only selling health and beauty aids. They were run principally by non-pharmacists and only added Rx depts. later. Walgreens was more pharmacy focused and managed. Sadly, today, I don't see a dime's worth of difference between them.
CVS scares me. Every CVS I’ve been in felt run down, and they had CARPET floors which were extremely stained and dirty.
I worked at Walgreens from 2001-2015 in several different store-level positions. Working for Walgreens as an assistant manager in the early 2000's was pretty good. Decent pay, benefits, 401k was really really good. The company also seemed to care for their employees to some degree. Circa 2010, things started to go downhill. By the time I left, it felt like I was working for a completely different company.
I agree with this. I was a general manager from 1997 to 2011. Towards the end it felt like the blind leading the blind.
"That's when they sold the business to -"
**checks notes**
"Shoes again?!?"
There were previous instances? I've lost track.
I'm not American so I remember when I first heard Walgreens mentioned I thought that someone had messed up Walmart's name somehow
@Lauren Zo LOL
Growing up, I always preferred Walgreen's. I liked the brighter atmosphere with all of the non-pharmacy related items that they sell. ☺️
Hi, Company Man. Could you consider doing a video on Harbor Freight Tools? It's interesting how they have somewhat cornered the market in cheap tools.
@@douglasjensen8986 Who?
@@douglasjensen8986 They are privately held as far as I can tell.
SUPER COUPONS
The backstory of HFT is incredible, I'd like to see a video on them too.
evilpeach2 When I go, even if I do t bring coupons, the cashier scans a coupon they have at the checkout for me.
Hearing “Eckard” just gave me childhood flashbacks
Definitely surprised to hear that both of those companies are that large. My local convenience stores barely have anyone in them
My local CVS has lines at the pharmacy during off work rush hour.
Mellow Baton yea, I always have larger lines at rite aid, and Walgreens is almost always empty, and the nearby CVS has a huge parking lot that almost never has any cars parked there
who the hell is even keeping these stores in business?
@@Yahriel The pharmacy is what makes money for them.
You must be in a middle class area. I'm in Florida it's junkies and panhandlers all over convenience stores
I worked at CVS for 1.5 years, the COUPON abusers were the worse man. Two of my coworkers got fired because the coupon people were gifting them items for letting them buy tons of carts full of items for basically $ 0. The paper ad says one coupon per sale (not per customer) so they do one transaction at a time and with only two people working in the entire store the line used to be big sometimes. And being in a bad neighborhood, the amount of robbery was insane.
The coupon abusers wearnt the problem esp if they were in a bad neighborhood. They were creativley saving money not their fault they 1 dont have a bunch of money and 2 yall dont want people 2 use the coupons you give out. God knows if everyone who didny have $ had the time we'ed all be couponing
Working at cvs sucks tho sorry u had to go through that
I always felt Walgreens was the nice old store (now with an amazing history), and CVS as a cold shadow trying to get through.
The pharmacists are such pricks and think their doctors.
@@rokae they put pills in a fucking bottle. Not very complicated.
@@rokae a doctorate on how to count pills and put them in a bottle and then be pricks to people trying to get their meds saying " it's only been 28 days eventhough your insurance went thru I can't give them to you until tomorrow " they love that little bit of power they have. Their a fucking joke and I'm sure their supposed doctorate takes at most 2 years to get. What a fucking joke.
@@rokae did you realize how stupid you are and I totally discredited your pharmacists are doctors statement? I guess the techs that do the same exact thing that don't even need to graduate high school are basically doctors also right? What a joke!!
Where i live CVS and Rite-aid are across the street from each other , I always go to Rite-aid because everything is much easier to find and nicer looking
Soar Alzheimers where I live CVS and Walgreens are right next to each other with a small Dunkin Doughnuts between the two they could throw a rock at each other.
I prefer Rite Aid over both. Plus Thriftys ice cream!
lil_box84 never seen one
There's a Walgreens and a Rite-aid next to each other where I'm from. 😂
I always go to the Rite Aid instead of the Walgreens (that seemingly pop up on every side of it) near me. I just feel overall more comfortable there. I always feel out of place at a Walgreens, and my one forced personal experience there for medicine (versus other trips for batteries or anything else in the past was absolutely horrible.
CVS stores are way more depressing that Walgreen's.
William Smith than*
William Smith it’s probably the carpets. Their mere presence implies that someone is vacuuming for 8 hours a day
But CVS doesn't sell disgusting and vile tobacco.
@@DNSKansas yeah cigarettes and dip are disgusting. I prefer cigars
That walgreens
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Make it happen Company Man!
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Where I live there is almost always a CVS across the street from a Walgreens. It's like they're staring each other down.
One time i saw 3 Waffle Houses in the same street and just 5 minutes away there was an ihop
In. my town there are 2 Mattress Firms directly across the street from one another.
Ive seen 2 starbucks sharing a parking lot on multiple occasions. in fact that situation exists about 3 minutes from my house.
The krusty krab vs the chum bucket
I live in Chicagoland, aka Walgreens-land. My town has 6 Walgreens alone. That was my first job, working in the pharmacy.
We have 10 in my hometown of Lakeland, FL
Why are the pharmacists and techs such pricks about giving out scripts even when insurances go thru? Like it personally affects them if you get it a day or 2 early.
@@jeffreyval9665 because there’s about 200 people ahead of you. You’re not special
@@donnyg9993 what tf does that have to do with me trying to get my script in 28 days??
@@jeffreyval9665 you said you wanted it early and they get on average 300 new scripts every day, so no you’re not special and probably won’t be getting yours early
"Sure, there's Rite Aid"
not for long, courtesy of the first company listed in the title.
Rexall?
Walgreens. Yeah, they bought Rite-Aid stores.
@@coreylineberry8557 *Still buying
@@TheEpicDiamondMiner My bad
The Rite aid by me shut down about 6 months ago.
I find today's pharmacies are more like convenience stores. So much over priced crap to wade through to just get a persciption.
Prescription. Also while the face price of the products are high, utilizing the store card alongside weekly sales often brings many items to costs lower than even Walmart. This is true of CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens.
AlterMannCam Don’t forget that with a card for Walgreens you get money back for every dollar you spend, even though it’s not much you can easily end up saving 30-40$ a year and it comes in handy if you need to pick up snacks or drinks for a party or something.
ah the dreaded line of death
But hey, all it takes is a hand full buying stuff to make it worth it.
Just you wait. I hear that none other than Disney has plans to buy up the "drug" stores, dollar stores, and the gas stations with convenience stores, the latter being a second phase as electrification sinks in and those gas stations become cheap when they get mothballed. They are already lobbying for an exemption to any environmental cleanup that would otherwise be required.
Local pharmacies need your support the most.
The Rite-Aid ICE CREAM counter has always been a nice touch.
For me it was Thrifty's, i used to ride my bike there w my friends and get a scoop on the occasional hot summer day. Once they packed it in i remember being bummed, i never really took to another ice cream stand the same way again.
Sometimes when something goes, it is lost forever. I'm not sure if it was because i was about to enter my teens at the time, but something was lost the day i knew my local Thrifty's was gone.
I wanna see a video for "Wawa"
And/or speedway
What about the girl who got hot Wawa tea spilled on her?
Well we got a documentary film currently in the work about the war between Wawa and Sheetz
Wawa is amazing
Sheetz is better imo
In my (new) home town of New Holland PA we have a "mom and pop" pharmacy thats been in business since 1869!
Don't let them sell out to these garbage corporations.
Woaaaah!
i thought Wiz Khalifa had a Walgreens tattoo on his hand for a long time, turns out it's the Washington Nationals logo
HolographicSweater my guuuy.
LMAOOOOO
I honestly think the nationals stole the walgreens w and thought nobody would notice
isn’t wiz from philly?
angel pittsburgh, i always thought he was a pirates fan
One difference:
Walgreen's has haunted bathrooms
Ya but CVS haunts the whole store!
Brandon Hoffman no it’s the old karen that works there that makes it haunted
I remember doing a report on Walgreens for an Economic Geography course. I was flabbergasted at how gigantic both of these corporations are.
Always got the best video ideas. Was curious about this.
Thanks man. Hope it helped straighten things out.
Applebee’s versus Chili’s pleaseeee :D
2 places I've never eaten at
'The rise and fall of two mediocre restaurants that blame the youth for their decline' 😂
Both trash
Def applebee's if you want to throw up in their front lawn whilst leaving.
In my town, both are right next to each other. Literally next door
I love this! You should do Staples v.Office Depot, they feel like the same thing
Man where is my bell-bottom suit! i havent stepped foot in one of those in years. And years, and years.
I remember my mom buying a computer from staples once, it was my 2nd computer. Also the last tech purchase ill be involved with from an office store. They do have good pens though, and an amazing selection of printer paper. Both of which get used less by me as time goes by.
I think ive had the same ream of paper for almost a decade, my pens have lasted as long too. Although i did order some refills for them online. Zebra pens, there the best!
YES
I was a lead photo specialist at Walgreen's when it became obsolete. I've been basically out of work ever since.
I'll give my opinion from the perspectives of both customer and employee. I was taking the Big-3 medications and shopping at Rite Aid happily since 2008. All of a sudden one day - around 2011 I think - my Rite Aid store which was THE BEST pharmacy, closed its doors. I was told that my prescriptions had been bought by CVS which was new in the neighborhood and I could go there to get them. Before long, my employer had picked up Caremark as the PBX and we employees were told we had to get our medications through CVS. This is when things got out of hand. It was around 2016 and I began having to wait for my prescriptions - a LONG time. It wasn't long before I was waiting an extra day or two to pick up my meds and when I went into the store, I once witnessed a tech verbally assaulting a pharmacist - one that I really liked. So I asked him what I needed if I wanted to come to work there as a second job in the evening. It was all about getting my medications on time. The store was so understaffed. I wondered often - Why don't these people want hours or why don't people want to work here? Within a couple of months in early 2017, I was working front-store at CVS waiting for my license to work in the pharmacy. And then to the pharmacy I went. And that was when I discovered the true meaning of the word hell. First, I learned it wasn't that people didn't want the jobs or that they didn't want hours. Truly, the pharmacy could have had 100 techs, but CVS would only let the pharmacy use a sparse number of hours - no where near enough to take care of the customers appropriately, much less to do all of the side crap that the company demands. The truck arrives and about 20 totes of over 300 drugs have to be put on the shelves and in the refrigerator. People start coming in and you have to enter prescriptions. The scripts don't all adjudicate properly so you then have to work that out or call insurance companies. Those scripts have to be filled and along way, you find yourself out of one med or another and you have to cycle count those. Oh wait, there's three customers at the registers and 4 cars lined up in drive-thru. The pharmacist is busy verifying the scripts you just entered and verifying the medications that you just filled. He or she, assuming they really enjoy pharmacy, consult with patients and are there to answer questions. Meanwhile, you look up and realize you now have 8 pages *15 scripts per page so that 120 scripts* to be filled because a lot of electronic prescriptions have come through. You had some help come in a bit ago but right after you took your 30 minute lunch, one of each of those two is gone for 30 minutes. Now things are really bad because it's January and a lot of patients are changing pharmacies because of insurance changes and the patients are coming in asking you to transfer there meds from Kroger or Walgreens. You look at the tons of scripts in the tub to be transferred and you start to wonder when you will get to them. No, you start to worry because at this point, you haven't been able to keep up on those cycle counts (drugs that you have to count), you have 23 prescription hard copies that have to be entered and adjudicated, 15 totes of drugs from the truck haven't been put on the shelves (which is why you can't do those cycle counts), there are now 6 customers at the registers and the front-store won't send help, there are now 9 page of scripts to be filled and the drive thru is calming down but still steady and the pharmacist is looking at you like he thinks you're about to pass out and you begin to feel like you are about to pass out as you remember that you still have to look up a bunch of loose pills which fell to the floor and you have to identify those for the guy who comes to throw those away (why do I have to identify these again?) Oh wait, Lord help me, the outside vendor delivery came and there's two more totes of medications that have to be put away and It's the first of the month so I've got to go through my shelves to take down medications that have or are about to expire and I really want to do that first and then put up the truck and then do my cycle counts but oh lord there's that little old lady that looks like she's about to topple over every time she comes in here and I need to get these customers taken care of. Oh wait - it's 4:00. I WANT to stay and get the work done but the fact is, I HAVE to punch out because the schedule says I get off at 4:00 and as bad as that goes against everything I have ever been taught about work ethic, if I stay over more than 5 minutes, I will get written up. I work for a good boss who did give me a really good raise when I got certified but then his boss told him to take it away so after a month with the raise, they took it back. At this point, I almost begin to weep. I remember when I did care. I still care about all those patients. But, I'm slowly realizing... CVS doesn't care. They don't care about me. If they did, I would have some help surely. I would be allowed the time to do my job WELL and go home with a sense of accomplishment rather than the total frustration of knowing that I will have to come in tomorrow and do all of this all over again. This is one day in the life of a CVS pharmacy tech. And on the weekends... I did this by myself with one pharmacist all day - 10-12 hours usually with no break or lunch and going to the bathroom maybe two or three times. After a while you MENTALLY shut down. You get numb. And the phones! The phones NEVER stop ringing. And to make matters worse, there is this voice of the STRICTEST high school teacher ever, reminding you every 1-2 minutes - "4 callers holding", "2 callers holding", "7 callers holding", and on and on!!! OMG! And the people on the phone. They want to tell you the stories of how their prescriptions were lost or your coworker must have made a mistake because she knows you would never do that and PLEASE HOLD MA'AM... And I look to my pharmacist who needs my attention because he can't find the Meloxicam because it's in one of those totes from the truck that needs to be put on the shelf because Monday is coming in a few hours and another truck with 20 more totes will arrive. I will get caught up next week. Let me check the schedule to see what time I come in since it's Monday. But wait... I"m not scheduled again until Thursday? This must be a mistake. I only have 12 hours. I've been getting 30 minimum for the past few weeks and the manager knows I have two kids to feed and I"m going through this divorce and they took my freaking raise. No it can't be. He said I really am scheduled 12 hours because I couldn't get my work done on time. But I really did.. do care... And the walls close in...
Now WalGreens... Walgreens has a "return-to-stock" system that is antiquated, I admit. But wow they have streamlined the process. It's a joy to go to work at Walgreens compared to CVS. Yeah, they still cut your hours unexpectedly. But I'm thinking that in time they may see that... I... care... Oh well at least at Walgreens, a part-time employee earns PTO and gets holiday hours and stuff. CVS has all these little benes that seem so great but they don't take care of the basics. Who cares if I get a discount on a $2000 Apple Mac if I can't get enough hours to feed my family. At Wal-greens training is sorely lacking. At CVS, 24 hours are NOT enough in the day but you only have to worry about it for 2 - 4 because that's about the number of hours you will be working a day.
In short, pharmacy is a passion. The right techs will CARE for the patients regardless - until they realize there just is no hope left. Even then, some very good techs will stay until they completely burn out and become sour and uncaring or end up exhausted, only to be tossed out by a district manager who never even knew her name because in the DM's eyes, she's not a pharmacist and that makes her yesterday's trash. The big companies have not found the balance between profits and patient care. Yes, I prefer Walgreens but I do see that they have to compete against the 3-letter swamp monster across the street that owns the PBX that forces patients to the swamp. I can tell you I have forged my deepest friendships not in my day job but sweating alongside a caring pharmacist in the pharmacy. I WISH that every DM would wake up each day with the attitude that today will be the day that each employee - regardless of title - will know that they are personally respected and appreciated for the care that those people show for each of their customers every day. I WISH that every pharmacy had the caring, protective manager and staff of pharmacists that I had at CVS. It makes a big difference knowing that others care about you when you can't get to every patient to show them that you care about them. I WISH that these two companies would declare a truce for ONE month and focus whole-heartedly on training their people and truly caring for their patients. I truly believe that both would be more respected and would even be MUCH better companies if only they had DMs who cared enough to care for more than the bottom line. I heard once that the pharmacist is one of the top 5 most trusted professional - I wonder how long that will last with companies doing so much that deteriorates that trust. This is a SAD industry but it is one whose reawakening is patiently awaited by many of us. In the meantime, I will stick with Walgreens and exploring my passion of pharmacy there as long as I can.
longest comment ive ever seen, holyyyy
I had never even heard of CVS until they had took over the local Eckard stores.
Praise the Lord!
This
Same
Same here. I remember the moment they took over Eckard’s when I was a kid.
BIGGER than Microsoft! That gave me a bit of a shock
It's not true
They sell drugs. Of course they're bigger.
I know you don't get political in any of your videos, but I'm curious to know if you're ever concerned about the underlying motif of corporate consolidation that becomes apparent when you examine these companies. I personally find it troubling that so much power in so many industries rests in the hands of monopolies, duopolies, and oligopolies.
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Well if they started abusing customers someone would compete with them. It’s all cheap so as of now we’re good.
@@liamryan7239 that's not how these things work. When corporate power is as consolidated as it is in the US the barrier to entry is generally too high for competitors to feasibly crop up, especially if they're not financially backed by a large conglomerate. Look at cable and college board, for example. They cost way more than they would in a truly competitive market for different reasons. Cable is a super expensive investment, few companies have the capital to enter and combat establishment players. This allows the resulting regional oligopolies to gouge customers. College board has a more natural moat, that being that colleges don't want to have to interpret the result of numerous tests. Again, this results in ridiculous prices for the exam, an unnecessary charge to send in scores even though that could be done for free electronically, and terrible standards and scandals even it comes to the scoring of exams. If there was even some competition in the market college board would be as good as sunk, and rightfully so. I would implore you to reconsider your complacency in the matter, it's actually a very serious problem.
@@liamryan7239 Exactly all companies can be replaced, the example he gave is a utility company. Ofcourse those will be run by huge corporations. I would not want a local business man to be in charge of my utilities.
@UC-qRx0kDPNbykQ5gTkVt2SA sakib bari I think you're premise is off from the start. For example, cvs was able to catch up to a big company pretty quickly because it had corporate money to help it grow. Others without that, however, can't compete and are bought up. Also yeah, airbnb and Uber exist, but entrepreneurship is actually pretty low despite the appearance of the contrary. I also think the notion of anyone with an idea being able to do it is pretty obviously wrong considering that hasn't happened and a majority of Americans can't even afford an unexpected 400 dollar expense. I also don't care whether or not I sound smart. I'm a politics and econ major, of course in going to use the technical terms, as they're the proper terms.
I thought I was at a disco the other day.
I walked in there was bright lights, bad music, and drugs everywhere.
Then I realized I was in Walgreens.
😯
Did you say disco?
Sounds like a CVS with a lighting problem!
anyone else miss target's pharmacy? their pill bottles were so cute, and i loved the color coded rings they put on them for different members of the family!
Do Speedway LLC, they have acquired a lot of companies and are still purchasing, a major company they just bought had over 2000 locations.
RIP Super America.
@@TapDat52K Super America was big here in Minneapolis/St. Paul. They were one of the good "red, white, and blue" stations, along with Holiday, that had more consistently decent, and fewer "ghetto", locations. Speedway was always pretty decent too, plus their rewards program is nice.
@@PongoXBongo i was gonna say, I have one by my house and it was originally an SA. When Speedway came in, everyone got new uniforms and the look of the place improved. But the icee machine is alot worse now. I like the one in St. Paul when I visited. Or maybe it's called something else. By the airport and where the Mall of America is at. :/
Speedway is owned by Marathon, which is why you don't see marathons where you see Speedway.
@@TapDat52K did you know that Speedway actually owned SuperAmerica, then they sold the name and then reowned it again after buying Andeavor?
As an employee of one of these companies thank you for stating facts first and foremost. Huge respect for you sir
I left a comment on the CVS video about the way that CVS is agressively moving in on Walgreens in Puerto Rico, building their locations *very* close (sometimes literally next door) to an existing Walgreens location.
Walgreens W looks weirdly like the Washington Nationals W
When I first saw the nationals I thought they must be sponsored by Walgreen’s by wearing their merch
And most of the bill is paying for the receipt
I'd say the Nats logo looks like Walgreen's! Since Walgreen's was here first haha
Walgreens had it first. The Gnats appropriated it. Also known as the Washington Baseball Team.
You should do a rise of chic-Fil-a to celebrate its first international opening in Toronto would be amazing.
I worked at Walgreens for 6 years, that company cost me a lot with my family. Hell they made me work the day my grandfather passed away.
wow
I work at Walgreens. My manager tried to make me work FIVE CLOSING SHIFTS IN A ROW as a MINOR during a SCHOOL WEEK
@@cinderdust8441 no surprise
No mention of CVS receipts?
Whats your point
@@coreypine9514 his point is that you go in to buy one thing - even a candy bar - and walk out trailing a mile-long receipt with useless promotions and coupons...it's ridiculous and wasteful.
You can save a ton on wallpaper with those receipts
You could have a wedding processional on a CVS receipt
@@ArtamStudio What you're saying is that I could live, die, and sleep on a CVS receipt?
Glad I go to Walgreens.
Company Man, thanks for the content! It's super informative and helps pass the time when the office work winds down!
love the company man! he’s such a humble guy and can make any topic understandable. props to you.
That's very kind Kasey.
Thank you! I can’t stand CVS really that company bought out Eckerd Drugs where I worked in the marketing department back in the day. Eckerd was a lot better I felt. Thanks again for covering the topic!
..but, which one prints you a longer receipt?
It's close. The actual receipts are one thing, the coupons on CVS make it longer. If you were to add the coupons you get from Walgreens usually the Walgreens one is longer
@@Eaglefalls14 In my experiences, the Walgreens receipt has always been shorter than CVS ones. Plus the CVS ones too often have useless coupons or discount promotions(which for the most part aren't anything to me worth using), printed at the bottom of the receipt. It's like Kmart and CVS sometimes are competing(lol), for the honor of which store can come up with printing the longest receipt!
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Depends if you mean the actual receipt from Walgreens or the bonus ones you get when you usually use your balance rewards card
@@JustAMag rewards cards lol! all i can say to that is wtf, and ill shop elsewhere. the price is the price. This is why i shop 1st at target. Better prices, no bs involved. Routinely beats the grocery store even at a discount, which beats CVS and Walgreens at a discount. Suddenly i feel 2 steps ahead.
Wave bye bye albertsons, ill see ya when i need ya.
Target savings:
Jasmine rice 1.00 easy
pasta sauce 50c to 1.00
coffee 1.00+
Snack bars 1.00+
Premade salad?? but its cheaper!
things that arent
Chips crackers and cookies.
cheese (at least good cheese)
But normally when i price check items at target vs grocery stores i find myself taking target items.
I happen to be a nearly 22 year employee of Walgreens, and as this video points out, a *LOT* has changed with the company as well as the industry in that time. Good job discussing the major differences.
I worked for Wag in the 80’s and met a few of the higher ups. Some of them even had a smoke with me (in the pharmacy). They weren’t there to break your balls. We had enough help all the time. They used to have stickers on all products, no barcodes. The cost of the item was written on the stickers in a secret letter code which I will not disclose. Does anyone out there remember it? When a customer bitched about the price, the clerk could adjust it on the fly. They were a good company to work for and management was nice and helpful. Treated you like family. A little known fact about Charles Walgreen. When he had a customer on the phone, he would take their order and continue chatting with them until the customer had to get off the phone because someone was knocking at their door. It was the delivery kid from Walgreens!
Having worked for Walgreens for a few years, I think this is accurate. I think it would have been interesting to see you compare some of the statistics regarding numbers of reported misfilled prescriptions per company in 2018.
Walgreens man myself since I have a 24 hour one walking distance from me. But overall very interesting Mr. Company man. Can’t tell you how much I enjoy your videos. Keep’em coming as you have a loyal viewer here!!
I'm a Walgreen's person too, because I actually live next door to one! How convenient is that! There's a 10 foot high fence along the property line, so I still have my privacy. The Walgreen's next to me closes at 10:00 pm by city ordinance, because it borders on a residential area.
Very interesting hamsterama!! I didn't know cities had such ordinances. It's really awesome having a 24 hour one as at any given time I can just walk to it and get whatever I need.
@@mauriciojavier72 Yep, I live in a suburb with a shopping center stuck in the middle of a residential area. Because the houses and condos all around, the city requires that stores can open no earlier than 8:00 am, and must close by 10:00 pm. This is to cut down on traffic. The lights in the Walgreen's parking are timed to shut off shortly after closing time.
Worked for Walgreens as a pharm tech, worst job I ever had.
Where I live now there's a Rite Aid and a CVS within spitting distance, which is fine by me.
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I'm not surprise. Every persons I know who work at pharm tech at Walgreens, it was the worst job.
What did you have about it? I'm curious.
@@InfectedChris I don't know if this was because I worked at a location in south Florida, but the patients were the rudest fucking people on the planet, bunch of nasty old New Yorkers, I would hope it's different elsewhere. But everything else was cool, unfortunately, dealing with the patients is about 90% of the job.
I love your cartoons!
In my experience neither have been great for drug prices. I always go to the Kroger that is closest to me & I've heard Costco is really good as well.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to disagree with Kroger being good. When I was little I was sick, and then pharmacy gave me like 5x the strength of the antibiotic and got me really sick.
Chris Hart i forgot about kroger, they're pretty big
Every time the intro starts I always hear the intro to Day n Nite
That’s a fucking flashback bro
Same XD
Them CVS receipts are so long, I can make a scarf out of just one purchase of batteries 🤣
Do rite aid rise and fall, talk about they’re accounting scandal!!
they are accounting scandal
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I shop at CVS for multiple reasons.
1. There is a CVS closer to me than a Walgreens.
2. My prescription insurance is through Caremark, part of CVS.
3. Their staff are friendly and helpful, their extra services are excellent, and I never have any issues.
4. They have many ways for me to maintain both my maintenance drugs and non maintenance drugs.
5. My ex-wife worked at Rite-Aid, which is the next closest pharmacy near me. :-)
Yes!! Been waiting for a Walgreens vs CVS vid from Company Man!!
why isnt this channel more popular? this is great.
This video didn't mention Walgreens' acquisition of Kerr Drug in NC in 2013. It was a small local company so I understand.
I'm a simple man. I see company man, I watch and upvote.
Nicky James Dude, I just said that same thing in my head right before I saw this comment. Lol
I’d like to one day see a video on the company Little Trees. The ones who make those pine tree-shaped air fresheners. They’re everywhere and everyone’s had one in their car at one point in their life, lol.
i don’t know why i’m so interested in your videos. i hate math, did okay in econ in high school and college, and have absolutely no interest in business or owning companies/trading stocks. i’m just genuinely so interested in this type of stuff
I worked for CVS for many years. Let me tell you why their profits are higher. All of their stores are dangerously understaffed. All of their employees are grossly underpaid and painfully overwhelmed and overworked. They’re allowed 1 cashier and 1 supervisor. The supervisor opens the store alone and remains alone for a minimum of 4 hours. They are so far behind technologically it was embarrassing. This company is so tight it’s disgusting. I don’t say this out of spite. I loved my job - when I had time to actually do it. As soon as my cashier came in then pharmacy would constantly call me for back up. There’s a CVS group on Reddit that will rock your emotions. I’ve read so many posts of employees that are extremely depressed, suffering from anxiety and even suicidal.
COVID - There is zero sanitization methods being adhered to in the stores. The bathrooms get cleaned maybe once a week and per a survey on the CVS Reddit forum. The pharmacies NEVER get cleaned. They cross contaminate pill counting trays which is a huge violation. They have food back there all the time. Another violation.
Pharmacy staff only gets one 10 minute break on an 11 hour shift regardless of what the policy states (two 10 min. breaks and a 30 min. lunch). So there ya have it.
I now work at Walgreens and it’s like night and day.
I kid you not. We have a CVS, a Walgreens, and a RiteAid on the same intersection of my city of 35,000 people in northern Va. 😂. I prefer CVS because there are more of them and a good high school friend has been with them since 1992 (27 years)!
I had a CVS and RiteAid in close proximity to each other (like 1/4 mile, tops), though the RiteAid was closed down recently when Walgreens built their new (pharmacy only) store a little closer. There was also an indie pharmacy right across from the current Walgreens but well, that didn't last.
In my neighborhood there's a CVS and Walgreens right across the street from each other. I usually shop at the latter
there was one in my neighborhood too. the cvs recently closed. the walgreens was always a lot busier and i preferred it.
What about the Theranos experiment at Walgreens? I'm kinda amazed at how they got away with that unscathed.
Can you elaborate?
@@munawwarshaikh8010 woman who modeled herself as Steve Jobs created a company called theranos that made at home blood tests that didn’t need to be sent out to a lab. Only problem was it was complete BS and the kits didn’t work. Walgreens bought the company for several hundred million dollars and somehow the company was never exposed or audited until after the transaction. She’s currently in jail for 20 years
I am born, raised and still residing in Chicago. Back in the day Walgreens was the go to. We had neighborhood Pharmacies but Walgreens had that and a whole lot more. They were fun to go to with my Parents. Fast forward to the last fifteen or so years. Another Pharmacy in Chicago was Osco. They were the competition for Walgreens for decades but all their stand alone stores were now becoming CVS's. At the time we preferred Osco because many of them were connected to our home grocery store Jewel and the Chicago Walgreens stores seemed old and outdated. They were everywhere but they were also small, cramped and poorly lit. Just blah. CVS came to town and turned all the brick and mortar Oscos into theirs almost overnight and everything changed. No one here had heard of CVS, that soon changed. Just in my old neighborhood I had three CVS's within walking distance. Two were across the street from each other! The Walgreens in that area was not a store I would shop at. As Chicaoans go we generally don't take to Easterners coming here and changing things but we adapt. In my new neighborhood I have a CVS a block away. I get my scrips and so forth there. I have a Walgreens nearby that is more up to date but still lacks. Sad because here in Chicago we love our hometown businesses but man they are dying. Good video. Thanks.
I remember when they built CVS's in my neighborhood in maybe 2008-2010. I have never been in a CVS. Walgreens is just so "normal" to me.
I was wondering the reason for why both stores exist literally last night. I was hoping that you had already made a video about them but couldn't find any. Thanks Company Man for satisfying my curiosity!
I think you should be more concerned. Company is either following you or in your head.
You should also do a video of Sav on and Osco drugs and Lucky stores supermarket 🏪😇😇😇😇
Lucky still exists -- I actually have two near me in Utah. Osco was one of the first stores I remember from when I was a kid.
I always went to rite-aid because i never had to fight the crowd at the pharmacy....
Then, all of a sudden, the pharmacy was bought by Walgreens and changed their process at the pharmacy. This slowed everything down...
I now go to the mom and pop phamacy just a block away.
Wow, I guess I'm not the only one who's had this issue with a converted Rite Aid. I'm actually considering moving my med pick-ups to a local ShopRite because the last time I went to pick up my pills, I had to wait over half an hour in line...just to be told I had to come back in 3 hours for the pills to be ready. wtf is that about???
I use Express Scripts now because it is often cheaper and orders ship for free.
Hello there.
I very much enjoy your short and thorough comparison of those Two companies. My search was about cvs, as I was looking to know more about the company, but your comparison of CVs and Walgreens turned out to be more than what I was looking for, and then some🤛
I found this channel yesterday and I haven't left since
Our local drug store was Eckard Drug. A few years ago it was bought out by Rite Aid.
I think Walgreens is a better run company. They don’t risk unless necessary. Cvs is balls to the wall aggressive and while their risk is high reward. Their debt compared to Walgreens is unbelievable.
Isaac Blood? Imagine if the biggest drugstore chain was called "Blood"
On the street used to live on there was a CVS, Walgreens and Rite-Aid all on the same street less then a half mile apart
Growing up in small towns, we didn’t have Walgreens. But as a kid I was always enamored by their fantasy commercials
I foresee a monopoly on the rise if CVS keeps on consuming.
They’ve spent so much money on acquisitions it’s ridiculous. You know where they make up the money? By taking an hour here or there from different retail locations and opening later/ closing earlier. They can’t afford what they’re doing.
Agree they are in a lot of debt. They need to pay some of it off.
Eventually Walmart will buy up most of the stores. Then there will only be Walmarts, Costcos, and Whole Foods.
i love watching a documentary about drug wars
I remember Rexall Drugs when I was a kid back in the 70's. You should do a video on the history of Rexall.
Thats all in Dollar General now right?
Rexall is still alive in Canada, or at least in Toronto
Before Walgreen's turned in to a public company Walgreens was a great company to work for. Even as a clerk you didn't do half bad if you stuck around. Sadly that's no so true as it used to be but I understand it's still better then going with CVS. P.S. Rite Aide is now owned by Walgreens, kind of.
Any idea why they put their entrances on the corner of the building?
I have a cvs and a Walgreens across the street from each other in my city
I'm a Walgreens guy since they've everywhere and the closest CVS is 50 miles away
kimmykun really? In Wisconsin where I live they’re always across the street from one another
Another vote for "they are nearly the same". Used to go to CVS more where I lived, but now a walgreens is much closer. The one thing I have noticed- if i need a 24 hour pharmacy, Walgreens, at least where i am, seems the better option. CVS here have much more traditional hours.