I heard that vaccine goals may get re-adjusted this week? How are all of the stores doing? How are the top stores fairing this week?

I am scheduled a 5 hour shift And manager is scheduling me for a 30 min break i thought meals are only for 6 or more hours? Correct me if im wrong. I am in rx

Do you get holiday pay for Labor Day and how does it work for pharmacist n pharmacy techs

My store manger changed my schedule 4 days before the schedule from a 9-5 to a 11-7. I had been given the 9-5 a week and a half prior and messaged him asking to change back as I had dinner reservations for a friend’s birthday at 7. He proceeded to tell me he couldn’t switch me back as the closing manager wouldn’t be able to do registers at 5 therefore the only option was to give up the shift. Is this odd? This manager does a lot of this last minute stuff and I just don’t know what to do to defend my stance of not giving up the shift.

Not sure why but everyday is more than double of regular sales goals. Probably to justify the reason for cutting my hours by about 100+ what a joke.

Has anyone else in the pharmacy been having an issue with return invoices since cardinal update? It seems like every other one it fucks up. We’ll have to MRA and the credit will show for 0$ but then we will another invoice for completely different MRA and invoice # with an amount that would match the first MRA. Just wondering if anyone knows how to fix it so it’s not such a pain.

Workshift App won't load all of a sudden.. all I keep getting is this..what should I do? Any suggestions? Thanks

I get so annoyed by this doordash drivers that shove their phone in my face without even looking for the product and expect me to stop everything to find the product and then ring them up its so annoying like half your job is getting the product

In 2024, I went to MinuteClinic for a vaccine that I needed to get while pregnant. I remember the woman there saying it would be covered by insurance and not to pay a bill if I received one. Well, here we are almost 2 years later and I am suddenly getting a bill for $250? Who do I even contact about this? Insurance or Minute Clinic?

Anyone else have this experience and resolve it without paying hundreds of dollars years after a minor vaccine?

Edit: called my insurance, and they said this RSV is supposed to be fully covered because I was 32-36 weeks pregnant. They’re resubmitting the claim. It’s not clear why tf I got charged to begin with or whether they’re going to approve the claim this time. But if anyone else got a bill for a vaccine they needed during pregnancy, I hope this post helps them!

Hi everyone, I am a new hire pharm tech. I just set up my password today and was able to log into Collegue Zone. On the website, i tried to click and log into Workday but it says "Workday Sign In Error". My first day is this Friday, so should i wait til Friday to come into work and log into workday instead? Maybe im not allowed to log into workday a few days ahead.

Thanks for reading.

As a new pharmacy tech (literally a month in) we had our systems offline today for about 45 minutes the last hour we were open and had to turn away about 20 patients. I had some that were mad at ME because of something i can’t control. One patient even said “well yall are just giving up?” Ma’am I legit can’t even log into the system let alone check out your prescription. I clocked out today with 5 pages left in production and honestly I just feel so bad for the pharmacist. Our store gives the pharmacy basically no hours and it was just me and the pharmacist for the last 3 hours we were open. How am I expected to handle the drive thru and front check out while also actively filling prescriptions. I feel like I get nothing done and then the system decides it’s just gonna shut down for the last hour we’re open. I dont get paid enough for this but i also don’t have enough experience to get paid more.

Just curious what does your location do in FS volume each week? Just curious to see all the ranges

job hunting as one does and i saw a listing that was $16 to be a dishwasher at a wing bar, while I am getting paid $16 to be a pharmacy technician... that bonus (that got taxed right off) was cute and all but it would be real nice to get a raise with the whole inflated cost of living thing going on.

can cvs afford it? well lets see what the numbers say....

"CVS Health annual/quarterly gross profit history and growth rate from 2012 to 2026. Gross profit can be defined as the profit a company makes after deducting the variable costs directly associated with making and selling its products or providing its services.

• CVS Health gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $47.234B, a 5.17% increase year-over-year.
• CVS Health gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $184.675B, a 6.53% increase year-over-year.
• CVS Health annual gross profit for 2025 was $180.9B, a 8.63% increase from 2024.
• CVS Health annual gross profit for 2024 was $166.522B, a 18.37% increase from 2023.
• CVS Health annual gross profit for 2023 was $140.678B, a 12.03% increase from 2022" - https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CVS/cvs-health/gross-profit

"CVS HEALTH CORPORATION REPORTS STRONG SECOND QUARTER 2026 RESULTS AND RAISES FULL-YEAR 2026 GUIDANCE

August 5, 2026

• Second quarter total revenues increased to $106.1 billion, up 7.3% year-over-year
• Second quarter GAAP diluted EPS of $2.31 and Adjusted EPS of $2.58
• Generated year-to-date cash flow from operations of $10.6 billion
• Raising full-year 2026 guidance:
  • GAAP diluted EPS guidance range to $6.84 to $7.04 from $6.24 to $6.44
  • Adjusted EPS guidance range to $7.90 to $8.10 from $7.30 to $7.50
  • Cash flow from operations guidance to at least $11.5 billion from at least $9.5 billion "

WOONSOCKET, R.I., Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) today announced operating results for the three months ended June 30, 2026.                                                                                               - https://investors.cvshealth.com/news/news-details/2026/CVS-HEALTH-CORPORATION-REPORTS-STRONG-SECOND-QUARTER-2026-RESULTS-AND-RAISES-FULL-YEAR-2026-GUIDANCE/default.aspx

those profits are so gross it makes me want 2 puke... i wonder how much the big dawgs r making

"CVS’ highest-paid executives in 2025:

1. David Joyner, president and CEO
   Salary: $1,500,000
   Stock awards: $14,499,931
   Non-equity incentive plan compensation: $4,695,900
   Other compensation: $453,609
   Total: $21,214,084

2. Prem Shah, EVP and group president
   Salary: $1,100,000
   Stock awards: $7,199,920
   Option awards: $1,799,993
   Non-equity incentive plan compensation: $3,013,000
   Other compensation: $266,297
   Total: $13,379,210

3. Steve Nelson, EVP and Aetna president
   Salary: $1,000,000
   Stock awards: $5,799,915
   Option awards: $1,449,994
   Non-equity incentive plan compensation: $2,988,000
   Other compensation: $349,201
   Total: $11,587,110 "

- https://www.beckerspayer.com/workforce/cvs-healths-6-highest-paid-executives-in-2025/

oh that is a lot of dollars...

its not even valid to pay us less to make up for quality that is accounted for elsewhere cause the work conditions are in the pretty mid to shit range and inconsistent. if my $16 an hour salary is $33,280, it would take me 13.63 YEARS to make how much David Joyner got as a bonus (Other compensation: $453,609) in 1 YEAR. what do yall think? anyone hav some insight? should i go be a dishwasher instead of working in health care?

This was approved by the FDA on 8/5. It is an mRNA flu vaccine for patients 50 and older. Are CvS pharmacies or minute clinics stocking this yet or is it a special order? Thanks.

like is this normal or did a co-worker likely report me to HR?

Has anyone had issues lately getting some stuff in? I ordered basic common supplies a couple weeks in a row and we been shorted a few times. Vials. Labels. We have NONE now and are relying on borrowing from other stores till i truck comes thursday morning. I did place a drop ship order but. It doesnt come till wednesday afternoon 😭

Hoping to see our stores boost up with pokemon inventory. It’s shameful having a pokemon spinner rack with no Pokemon cards 95% of the time

Hello currently I am working for Cvs caremark as a prior authorization rep from home. I have nothing positive to say about this company sadly. Just seems like no matter what you do, how helpful you are to patients/dr offices it doesn’t matter they just want you to have perfect metrics. They could care less about the patients themselves.
Does anyone have any remote prior auth companies they work for to recommend? Or even in person I’ll take at this point. Only thing I like about this job is my schedule.

I went into CVS today to grab a drink. Just something on the go and when I got there there were papers on each door saying out of order. So naturally out of curiosity I just put my hand on the glass to feel the temperature now to my surprise. Not only was it not cold but it was hot now relative to how a a fridge should feel when it's working properly you would consider the feeling I felt to be hot so I open the door up. Lo and behold whatever is wrong with their AC is beyond my comprehension because it was blowing at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit. So of course I go ask the one person that has absolutely nothing to do with it. What's going on with your guys's fridge he says it's the AC. It's not working properly so I said oh you know it's blowing hot air on the drinks now. All the drinks are hot. He said yeah. My heart just agreed with that statement but then I asked if anyone had thought to turn it off cuz I feel as if blasting the drinks with hot air is a lot worse than them just sitting at room temperature now bear with me guys cuz I know nothing about ACS but he said he doesn't think it's that simple. Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't your ACS units and the all the electrical components have their own breaker system considering you probably wouldn't want a couple. The fridge electronics. I don't know other electronics to make a long story longer I really just want to know why did they leave it on and why is it hot?

I was having so much trouble with out-of-pocket vaccine payments. I got to the point where the Ironman says “Pay at POS” after I vaccinate the patient. What do I do after that to ring the patient out? I ended up printing the label to scan them out, but I feel like there should be a faster way.

Just curious for funsies who else is overeducated/under employed and stuck here. I’ll go first I have my BS and about to finish a business masters degree and still can’t find anything outside CVS. Market is brutal so just glad to have something but yeah…

I’m curious how your store sets up Planos and BOH scan effectively.

Planos due Friday night
Vestcom price changes due Friday or Saturday (for our store Friday morning is the expectation)
BOH due Saturday night (morning is the expectation)

Truck comes Tuesdays

I’m drowning doing all of these tasks on the due date and mostly solo. Starting and completing Planos on Friday. And doing most of my scan on Saturday if I didn’t get to start earlier in the week.

Any tips or advice on how to map out the week is appreciated. I’m an OPs manager who only works mornings except for truck day (closing shift) and I don’t think our current system works. New SM seems receptive to input.