Is everyone who works at CVS a Pharmacist?

[MountainPharmD]

It sure looked like it to me. I had to go to CVS tonight which kills me but it is close and I was off today. My kid has a raging case of bleeding butt rash. I was perusing throught the selection of cornstarch, butt paste and the like when I noticed several people walking around the store in white lab coats. My first thought was there sure were a lot of pharmacists working at 7:30 pm. Then I relaized I was at CVS and there is never more than one pharmacist on duty.

On closer inspection I noticed every single employee in the store had on a light blue polo shirt with a white pharmacist lab coat. There was a guy who looked like a pharmacist in a lab coat stocking candy another kid in a white coat checked me out up front. Is this some new deception tactic? Is CVS trying to fool people into believing the whole store is staffed by pharmacists?

I thought it was amusing......

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[Jbuprepharm]

front store wears the blue polos, and shouldn't be wearing a white coat

pharmacy personel: men are in shirt and tie with the white coat, and women are "dressed nicely" with the white coat

although sometimes the photo person has a white smock on.. so I dunno

 

[RobertZimmerman]

A friend of mine was a tech at CVS and sometimes wore his "work coat" to O-chem labs...

I work as a tech at an independent and try to dress as professional as possible so as not to look out of place... the female techs wear scrubs... the other men are pharmacists (usually business casual)... I just wear slacks/khakis and a nice shirt to look like the other guys.

If I wore a white coat I'd be laughed out of the store.

 

[007rx]

Yeah that's weird how the entire store had white coats on. At my store, a few stores that I've been in, and according to CVS policy, the people up front wear the blue polos without the white coats...except for the person working at the photo area. They can wear the white coats, I'm not sure why.

However, sometimes the techs in the pharmacy will come up and help the front store workers if there are a lot of customers and the workers up front are overwhelmed.

So in this case, my conclusion that I am drawing is that the person working at the photo development area was solo and had 50,000 photos to develop, so they needed help from a tech or two. Or this store could just be different than the ones that I've seen and been told about.

EDIT: Ignore my conclusion. After re-reading the original post, this makes no sense. I have no idea why this store is so weird haha.

 

[Sosumi]

At Rite-Aid, we went with what Brooks Eckerd did, so all of my technicians and cashiers wear white coats now with "Certified Pharmacy Technician" or "Pharmacy Cashier" embroidered on them. It's sometimes confusing to the new patients, but most of them know I'm the pharmacist.

 

[steveysmith54]

funny thing is no matter what I wear, I am always asked to help customers get razors(they now put a lock on the shelf so people don't steal them) and open the restroom.

 

[RxWildcat]

At Rite-Aid, we went with what Brooks Eckerd did, so all of my technicians and cashiers wear white coats now with "Certified Pharmacy Technician" or "Pharmacy Cashier" embroidered on them. It's sometimes confusing to the new patients, but most of them know I'm the pharmacist.

I know, they look almost identical to the pharmacist ones! I hate the new Rite Aid smocks. I know a few of the techs that hate them too because they say people think they are a pharmacist and start asking them questions that they can't answer.

 

[museabuse]

I usually wear a short sleeve polo, khakis, and a short sleeve lab coat, and I am a pharmacist. Sometimes I even where the CVS blue polo shirt under my white coat. They are actually really comfortable and almost impossible to wrinkle. I figure why buy polo shirts that I am going to completely ruin by wearing to work 14 hours a day when i can order a CVS polo shirt and wear that. I tried the tie thing and white coat but it is just too stuffy and hot, and CVS does not let you control the tempature in your pharmacy, its all controlled centrally. So unless I can keep the pharmacy cool I am going to dress business casual.

Plus how come a woman can wear basically what looks like to me to be a plain t-shirt and slacks and be professional? completely unfair and thats why I don't conform to the tie policy.

 

[nnguyenc]

to the OP: what you got against CVS anyways?

 

[FruitFly]

funny thing is no matter what I wear, I am always asked to help customers get razors(they now put a lock on the shelf so people don't steal them) and open the restroom.

Maybe I'll go to the photo department to have my prescription filled... (I never get why that doesn't happen, where the opposites' always the case)

 

[MountainPharmD]

to the OP: what you got against CVS anyways?

CVS is awsome!!!! So is Walgreens!!!! Awsome places for a pharmacist to work......👎thumbdown👎

 

[FruitFly]

I don't think any place is awesome for a pharmacist to work... If I wanted awesome, I'd have been a field goal kicker for the NY Giants...

 

[MountainPharmD]

I don't think any place is awesome for a pharmacist to work... If I wanted awesome, I'd have been a field goal kicker for the NY Giants...

Nah...thats not awsome.....Amsome is being the lead singer in an 80's heavy metal rock band...That would be awsome....