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Contents 1 Merging 2 CVS Caremark 2.1 Merger or Acquisition? 3 Infobox w/ revenue 4 Mislabeled picture 5 Picture removed 6 Expansion 7 Infobox problems 8 mowing 9 Eckerd stores in SC, NC, and GA 10 Comparison to Walgreens, "largest in the US"

[edit] Merging

CVS_Corporation should definitely be merged into the new CVS/Caremark Corporation. Jeebas62 is correct in stating this should be treated as an aquisition of Caremark RX by CVS. Caremark RX should be treated as a wholly-owned subsidiary in CVS, therefore it should retain its own article.

--Toczko.c 20:32, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Instead of merging this page to the CVS Caremark page, how about renaming this page CVS/pharmacy? We could also remove anything unrelated to the CVS/pharmacy stores, such as any mentions of Pharmacare, Caremark, or anything unrelated to the retail-side of their business.Jeebas62 21:11, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

• I'm a bit late to this discussion, but as it stands now, with the merge proposal tag still up, CVS Corporation should definitely stay separate from the merged company, for historical purposes. It was clearly a merger of equals, with doubling of the revenue to about US$75 billion. CVS Caremark is essentially a new company, combined from two, as the name suggests. It's simply not the same thing as CVS, just as its not Caremark. Also, each of the two segments are operated separately, reflecting their prior separate histories. Plus, there are currently three good, clear and unique articles. Merging would only confuse the growth history of one half of the new company.Steven Russell 19:22, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CVS Caremark

I created a page for CVS/Caremark Corporation, check it out.Jeebas62 01:14, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

"CVS and Caremark to Form Premier Pharmacy Services Company in Merger of Equals"[1] It's more of a merger I think... Besides, CVS is technically a larger chain than Caremark, so it would be Caremark merging into CVS instead of the other way around... Jameson L. Tai 16:46, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

The Merger with CVS and Caremark has Closed and the new company name is CVS Caremark, more information can be found on http://www.CVSCaremark.com/. I have never mergered two pages together.

The Merger with CVS and Caremark has Closed and the new company name is CVS Caremark, more information can be found on http://www.CVSCaremark.com/. I have never mergered two pages together.

[edit] Merger or Acquisition?

Should we treat this as a merger or as an acquisition? In other words, should the page for CVS/Caremark be more or less the current CVS Corporation page with a few minor Caremark-related updates, or should it encompass the histories of both companies? My personal felling is as an acquisition. I know that technically this was an acquisition, but even the company is calling it a merger. Thoughts? Jeebas62 03:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I say aquisition, but Caremark should still get a lot of info on the combined page because its a huge part of the company.

Treat this as a merger, as an employee of the company, I've seen the visual proof of the merger. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.188.16.234 (talk) 18:37, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox w/ revenue

Finally added the revenue to the infobox. Must be tired, kept missing a break line tag. I fanybody finds different info, post it. Got this stuff from Hoovers --munboy 03:04, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mislabeled picture

One of the captions indicates the depicted store is a CVS in Atlanta, but it's a Walgreens!

[edit] Picture removed

I removed Image:Cvs4.PNG from the article, for two reasons:

• It wasn't a very good image, and the store in the picture wasn't visible enough from the scale it was at.
• It wasn't really necessary, since there are three other pictures of CVS stores in the article.

--CrazyLegsKC 01:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion

Does anybody know when will CVS expand to Puerto Rico?--BoricuaPR 23:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

I've never heard anything about expansion outside the 50 states.--Captaincoffee 17:21, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

"(1998) The transaction gives CVS its first stores in Michigan and the instant lead in the highly competitive Detroit market." This doesn't seem to be entirely accurate, although the information comes from CVS' own Corporate Info website - CVS stores have been present in Michigan for at least a decade prior to the Arbor Drugs purchase, albeit in the form of the "small health and beauty aids stores in enclosed shopping malls" described in the 1978 bullet.

I remember making many trips to a CVS store in Northland Mall (Southfield, MI) during the early-mid eighties.

141.214.17.5 17:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I concur--for many years around that time, there was a (non-pharmacy) CVS store at Briarwood Mall in Ann Arbor. Guyinypsi (talk) 19:28, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

The first CVS pharmacy in Puerto Rico will open the first half of 2008,can't find the link to the news right now...--BoricuaPR 03:26, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Infobox problems

I tried fixing the "Headquarters" info in the infobox, but it appears blank. Why is this?--Captaincoffee 17:21, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] mowing

hello i own a lawn service in parkersburg wv and i was wondering if you can help me find out how or when you have bids on it . thank you josh miller

If you are trying to get the contract to do landscaping at your local CVS stores you'll need to ask a store manager for the contact info for the regional business office or the contact info for the corporate office. I don't remember which you need to contact, I should know who to call by now, I get at least a half dozen people asking me each year how they can get the contract to plow our store's parking lot.

[edit] Eckerd stores in SC, NC, and GA

I see that user Zchris87v had made an update on 11/11/07 & in the edit summary they entered: "Eckerd was dominant in SC, NC, and GA - those stores are now CVS stores." Jean Coutu actually bought these stores & operated them under the Eckerd name until Rite Aid bought them. The vast majority of CVS' Eckerd purchase was in Florida & Texas. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeebas62 (talk • contribs) 02:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comparison to Walgreens, "largest in the US"

Today anonymous Special:Contributions/64.53.205.142 edited both Walgreens and CVS/pharmacy to claim that Walgreens is larger than CVS, "based on sales, profit, and their 6,237 locations", without any citation. I found refs otherwise, such as Walgreen Co. (WAG) Competitors in Yahoo! Finance. I edited both articles to say "one of the two largest" and provided three references in each article, under a single footnote explaining "Walgreens has approximately the same number of stores as CVS/pharmacy, but a considerably smaller market capitalization and revenue. As of Dec. 29, 2007, CVS Caremark had 6,245 drugstores, in addition to other retail facilities. Walgreens had 6,237 as of Feb. 29, 2008." That note is in the Walgreens article, and the footnote I added to CVS is similar. Please comment here if you disagree, or have other info or advice. Thanks! Colfer2 (talk) 01:33, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Corporate vs. Retail: Store count is easy, but the financials (market cap and revenue) depend on how you consider CVS/pharmacy vs. its parent CVS Caremark. Both CVS and WAG operate large PBMs, etc., which could be heavy weights on their numbers. I think "one of the two largest" is fair, especially since the number of retail stores is very close. Or you could start counting other facilities they operate. :( Colfer2 (talk) 02:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Walgreens doesn't operate a PBM while CVS Caremark does. So that would certainly affect their comparative financial numbers. 63.73.199.69 (talk) 19:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)