Why CVS Sucks Now…And Is Getting Worse
There’s a crime wave at CVS, but you’re being lied to about who’s behind it. The company is under-staffing stores, underpaying workers, and forcing pharmacists to chase money at the expense of patient safety. “I’m afraid I’m going to kill someone,” said one pharmacist.
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@darksideof60
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
This is one of the results of deregulation. Thanks, Ronald Reagan.
@cggc9510
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
There was a recent hearing in Congress where AOC grilled the leader of Caremark about these practices. It was a treat to watch.
@Pumfee
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Great respect to pharmacists despite their big paychecks going out and organizing qith their fellow pharmacists and pharmacy techs, yelling at pharmacy boards and yelling at legislatures to try and make a change
@lefty12-string
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
It's deliberate, folks, to undermine American society, one of many, many different pieces that, all taken together, are being used to attack us from within and take us down, creating the level of societal instability necessary for a violent authoritarian takeover. This isn't a theory; it's how authoritarian takeovers throughout the world have operated for many decades. Create the problem, then offer the solution to the problem you created. When things get bad enough, people will demand those causing it (not knowing they caused it) to "save" them. Pharmacists and customers adversely affect should initiate a class action lawsuit against their corporate overlords.
@paradeshafarms1811
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Seven years ago, there was a Senate hearing on the issue of whether or not it was ethical for CVS to have bought AETNA Health for $69B. I remember watching that hearing and thinking to myself that Senator Cicilline must have been paid off by the CVS monopoly. https://www.youtube.com/live/LKEIyQvsoLs?si=OIv71XQUAfgPaylk Bottom line is that "benefits managers" corporations should not be allowed to exist, and Big Pharma corporations should not be allowed to own health care clinics nor health insurance companies. Pharmaceutical companies should have profit caps imposed upon them so that they are only allowed a reasonable percentage of profit (@ 12% to 18%) on top of their actual manufacturing cost per pill. There should be no need for another third party middle man to have to "negotiate" the price of medication a patient has to pay.
@tombeegeeeye5765
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
I have never experienced this at a CVS, Prices are way up but but service seems OK. But corporate America will be our American superhighway to serfdom and we will don our chains thinking we are a free people. Fox Noise and America's preachers will be shouting you are free embrace your chains.
@blunderbutt28
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Same for Dollar General and Dollar Tree. They won't staff them because they're so cheap and greedy.
@Bv3276
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
CVS is overpriced compared to other stores and you can never find anyone to help out. Also, some of the staff is rude.
@royybarra6160
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
What he says at 2:21 is exactly true, i was a shift manager for front store 1.5 years and transition to pharmacy tech for 0.5 years, i never got to fully transition bc there wasnt enough hours allotted to our store. U have to have more customers and push out more medications in order to get more hours to ur store. Even if the pharmacist was alone and overwhelmed with customers i wasnt allowed to jump back there and help from front store because they didnt have the hours the store managers and pharmacist would just get in trouble if u did that. I had to go to other stores i never stepped foot in as a substitute in order to get more than just 8 hours behind the pharmacy in my own store
@m.sharon
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
A young man working at CVS was just stabbed to death. For what its worth, I hope the family files a lawsuit. May he rest in peace.
@Karli50
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
My independent pharmacy just closed their doors one day and transferred all of our Rx to Walgreens. Then I saw the pharmacist from the closed one working at that same Walgreens. I said oh hey Carl I guess I see why you transferred us to Walgreens.😂 I've since moved to a different independent pharmacy
@kinley.-.
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
I used to use Walgreens but when i got a new job i had to transfer to CVS. I absolutely hate them, the employees are always rude af and i can’t even blame them because they seem overworked and stressed 24/7.
@skipperino2677
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
we're supposed to believe THIS is the better than socialized healthcare?
@mrnice4434
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
I have a question why does the US have this way more labor-intensive system where the pharmacist have to put a particular amount of pills in the little bottles for each patio? Her in Germany all medicine is per-packets from the Pharma company in three sizes N1 (most the time 10 pills) N2 (20 or 50 pills) or N3 (100 pills) so my Doc just writes the medicine with a N1,2,3 behind that.
@mozz02
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
That's the reason they want all their items locked away so they can have 1 or 2 people in each store. It's not because of crime or the homeless they can literally protect their stuff while they do everything and everything to make it unsafe
@NS-hs6lt
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Walgreens also severely understaffs.
@NS-hs6lt
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
I hate this place 😢
@BabyTooth05
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
YouTube will not allow me to turn on the notification bell for your channel that’s scary. Is anyone else having this issue?
@BabyTooth05
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
I’m terrified of this country. It’s scary anyone can look around and think “hell yeah America you’re doing great trump” this is disgusting we’re genuinely doomed
@thealkemistlab1199-9
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
every cvs in dc is almost closed down. adams morgan and k street cvs is the only one open i think
@jo12t
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
The workers need to unionize
@techmouse.
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
That guy is basically just a black version of Dr Nick.
"Yeah I'm a pharmacist, baby. I can get you any prescription you need."
@FranciscoG13
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Major corporations are destroying America. Optimization and maximization of dollars to the extreme. You’re no longer a human but unrealized data and the extent of the money in your bank account. Absolute disgusting stuff and nothing at all to be proud of!
@phoenixgate007
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Unending, always increasing, profits are not possible. The illusion of them exists if you merely run each business, each person, each town, into the ground. There’s nothing wrong with making profit. There is something wrong with making profit above everything else, including human decency.
@trilogie8119
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Cant have anything good in this goddamn country.
@djohawk
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Why is everything locked up?
@azmrblack
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Explains why all the Health plans I keep getting requires you to use CVS as your Pharmacy. I hate CVS – its slow, they dont call you, and dont care. It's also the bigger problem with this country – too many things are concentrated in few companies, which means competition goes away and prices rise, because only they can give it to you.
@ElleAyAych
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
I just saw this and I just changed my insurance out of desperation to one that only allows CVS pharmacies to be used. I guess I’ll wait for open season again 😅
@kw7909
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
I don’t know where this is at but I have not had that experience at any CVS pharmacy. They are all well staffed and super helpful. Walk in and get my prescription filled in 10 minutes. They go out of their way to move a prescription and fill it quickly. They even call me when it’s completed if I stepped out while being filled.
@TehzeebR
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
They will fire people for breathing. And they have a “lawyer” blackmail you and force you to basically pay back your earnings
@markrandall7400
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
What happened specially up in Ramona or Riley they hosted Rite Aid. They did it on purpose now. A person who has three back surgeries both knees, full of arthritis and they’re telling them they can’t get pain medication.I they’re only allowed so much per month so this month CVS was already out of their dispensing medication by 3 January so anybody getting a prescription for opioids is out done your local pharmacy says FU tell me that’s bull sh
@igiveupfine
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
hold on. CVS BOUGHT, aetna? the health insurance. not the other way around? wow.
also, wtf. that is why my health insurance has been calling me and trying to get all of my things filled through CVS for the past 3 years. fucking lame.
@grammiejones77
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
They shipped my medication by USPS and it was lost then they refused to do anything about it. They didn't care that it caused severe medical issues on my part. I became very ill. I finally got tired of all of the crap that goes on with my prescriptions plus how rude how totally rude they are. So I called in a complaint and now any refills called in by my doctor are lost. I can't get my medication from these people. So now I have to switch to another pharmacy.
CVS needs to be shut down!!!!
@RealRedBull
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Plain and simple. Blacks.
@MrSunlander
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Walgreens is not any better
@bailey9695
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Its insane that in this day and age we're also going to need to legislate minimum staffing ratios for freaking pharmacies
@Beverly-e4z
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
I was an RN all of my adult life and got hep C. Don't know when….lots of needlesticks. Anyway I went through 3 months of tx and I believe after the first month, was contacted and told the rest would come via mail. Total cost of 3 months $84,000. I didn't think anything of it at the time.
@chemicalhalf
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
I try to keep going to my independent pharmacy even though I now have to drive there (instead of walk). I love my pharmacy and they are amazing customer service wise and everything-wise. I also pay more for my pills there. And every time I fill a prescription there, my insurance will email me telling me to stop using them because they can do it cheaper via some corporate chain. lol? I hope everyone watching this, IF able can use a local/independent pharmacy! And bless the souls of these workers at these chains.
@jamesmichel4887
January 31, 2026 at 12:48 pm
Eventually capitalism consumes everything, including us…..
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