Tonight the the Cottage Grove Plan Commission, will be discussing the impending CVS pharmacy with representatives from CVS showing up to present their plans for locating within the Village.
I wonder if anyone on the plan commission will be asking them any business practices questions. As I pointed out earlier, the current village board, while ignoring locally owned business, have been busy chasing chains. They are not the only ones however, who are pursuing CVS, seems the Federal Trade Commission has their eyes on them also. They have already agreed to $2.25 Million to Settle Allegations of HIPAA Violations. In a very divided congress, where the parties almost never work together, both the republicans and the democrats both agree that CVS needs more oversight!
As if the FTC probe and congressional efforts are not enough to look into the practices of CVS, many states have their own investigations into the $99 Billion company.
Besides an FTC probe, Fortune has learned, several states are investigating the $99 billion company, which some people hope will be broken up. “I think there’s potential for an actual divestiture,” says David Balto, a former FTC policy director who now works with the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA)
For anyone wishing to know more about CVS/Caremark and their record record on drug favoring and switching, privacy violations, lack of transparency, and fraud issues. check out this website!
The only quote so far from the village board is this one by appointed president Mike Mikalsen:
“We’re really thrilled about CVS,” Mikalsen said. “It’s a major company willing to locate in the village.”
Not sure who “we” are, or if Mr. Mikalsen has done any research on the company, but they are questions that should be asked!
Jeff, I think “we” is everyone who wants to drive Kevin Hoey out of Cottage Grove so that he doesn’t run for office here again once his kids are out of school.
And, of course, I am not part of that “we.”
It would be great to get some type of clothing/shoe store in CG. Why doesn’t the board push harder for that?
Its fine to pursue chain stores to an extent, I just do not get the logic of pursuing one that would directly compete against one of the few established businesses that we currently have.
The CGPC passed the CVS plan unanimously with not a single question asked. They asked more questions about landscaping then they did business practices, etc…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/14/cvs-meth-fine-drug-store-_n_763616.html
For more than a year, CVS Pharmacy Inc. was more than a neighborhood drug store in Southern California and at least four other states. Federal authorities say it was the place of choice for would-be criminals known as “smurfers” to buy a key ingredient used to cook batches of the highly addictive drug methamphetamine.
Jeff was that you I saw at Target this morning in the checkout line with food items that could have been bought locally in Cottage Grove. Target is a big box retailer.
Oops, maybe you have a double standard that applies to other people, but not yourself. My family and I were shopping for some clothes and a few new decorating items for the kids rooms.
My family is and will be remaining a customer of Door Creek Pharmacy, but that doesn’t mean government should use its power to block legitimate competition. Consumers can be trusted to make up their own minds on where to shop.
Actually it was me at Target but you must not of gotten a very close look, because the majority of stuff I bought today I cant get in Cottage Grove(hence a need).
Target is a big box retailed, very observant. But as far as I am aware, Target has not gotten in trouble for violating HIPAA laws, Drug switching, Fraud, and service issues and a litany of other problems (http://www.alarmedaboutcvscaremark.org/). Not to mention the capper – The multi million in fines for not providing mandatory safeguards of Meth Ingredients (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/14/cvs-meth-fine-drug-store-_n_763616.html) and directly across the street from our middle school. Is this something that was even asked about? did anyone even know?
Consumers can be trusted to make up their own minds where to shop, unfortunately it seems CVS/caremark cant be trusted.
If you saw me, you should of come over and said hello!