Subscribe to Dollars & Sense magazine. Recent articles related to the financial crisis. Tell CVS To Unlock Their CondomsFrom Mazher Ali, who works with our next door neighbors United for a Fair Economy (UFE), reporting back from a protest at CVS.Groups including Jobs with Justice, Change to Win, and my own, United for a Fair Economy, gathered on CVS' doorstep in downtown Boston for an expression of outrage. With the help of a mass of supporters off the street, we delivered our collective demands for the pharmacy big dog to end its discriminatory practices in communities of color. CVS has already been charged with violation of customer privacy. Now, they're being faced with communities' demands to stop selling expired meds and other goods, stop over-charging customers, and to provide customers with equal access to products in all locations. With regard to the latter, CVS has historically put in place more stringent anti-theft measures in minority communities—the most recent battle is over locked-up condoms. Even CVS' less-than-perfect national competitors, Rite Aid and Walgreens, have agreed to do the right thing and unlock their condoms. So...what's the deal? CVS seems hell-bent on sending a message—one that says "We don't care if HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, or unintended pregnancy become an epidemic in communities of color, so long as our profit margin is secure." This is another sad instance of big corporations placing the value of capital over that of human life. Corporate delinquency won't end without your help. See curecvsnow.org to get involved. Mazher Ali United for a Fair Economy Labels: Change To Win, CVS, Jobs with Justice, United for a Fair Economy Please consider donating to Dollars & Sense and/or subscribing to the magazine (both print and e-subscriptions now available!).
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I think it's perfectly fine that these guys lock up their condoms. The people stealing them can get free ones at local health departments, hospitals, and many other organizations dedicated to preventing the spread of STD's.
Just because they find it easier to walk into the corner CVS and steal an expensive box of Trojan Magnum, doesn't mean CVS has to let them. If it's embarassing to ask for them, there's other stores that don't lockup their condoms. The places I previously mentioned also give them out no questions asked, and often just have them sitting out on display free to take. # posted by
 : Saturday, April 04, 2009 2:51:00 PM
If the low lifes would stop stealing everything that wasn't nailed to the floor there would not be a need to lock anything up
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: Thursday, May 07, 2009 7:53:00 PM
I work for CVS...and we don't have our condoms locked up. But let me tell you...there is a box stolen twice a week because no wants to pay 15 dollars for 10 condoms not including all the stolen lubricants. We don't sell expired drugs, We thoroughly go through every single drug we have and check expiration dates and so forth. I could say alot more but you must have a really sad life to have to raise kane because condoms are locked up and you need a person to get them for you. Sex is a common part of life..Mostly everyone has it...probably not you...but mostly everybody else. If you owned a company and nationally saw condoms as well as razor blades, and make-up being stolen on a regular basis and saw such a huge loss in money...there would be no doubt you would not but those things behind counters or behind some safety device.
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