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A Privately owned company should have the right to lock up item they have for sale. It is time we stop taking away the rights of people and company's for one sector of the people.
Unfortunally, I lived and worked for a major pharmacy in Dallas TX before moving to northern Idaho, and Condoms are locked up because they are stolen and resold though supposed Black Market Stores, Why should the Company have to pay the cost of the stolen condoms through lost profits? Encourage the state governments to provide free condoms though thier health departments. Note, The store I worked at did not lock up thier condoms.
"THOSE people", "THOSE neighborhoods" sounds suspiciously like a round about way of blaming low-income people for their being HIV+. C'mon folks, this is the 21st century. "THEY" is US and WE are THEM.
This is a dangerous move, in my opinion. By all means lobby for greater availability of condoms and funds but to insist that a private company opens itself to greater incidence of theft is ridiculous. To claim that CVS has greater responsibility for our well-being then they actually do is very short-sighted and dumb.
CVS has the right to keep items that are being stolen locked away.. if people did not steal them there would be no reason to lock them up. It is not a race issue, it is a rights issue, the right for CVS to keep what is theirs from being stolen.
I think that it is sad that this has to be the way CVS handles their products, but these people have to understand that it is because of those people in those neighborhoods that this has to be this way. If people were not stealing them, they would not have to be locked up like that. I agree, even though they prevent STD in most cases, that is not a good enough reason for stealing them when you can't afford them.
jeff
this is a joke! blaming a company for not wanting their products ripped off for contributing to un-safe sex practices is the most ludicrous argument i have seen in years. so, should the liquor stores in these areas remove their bullet proof glass and cameras fo rthe thirsy folks as well? pass out free condoms in these areas. this will help these people far more!
July 17, 2009 • kc