Comments on: CVS Employees With Sex On The Brain

By: My Body Is Not Defined By Pregnancy - The Sexist - Washington City Paper

My Body Is Not Defined By Pregnancy - The Sexist - Washington City Paper — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:00:36 +0000

[...] It is complicated, that “confluence of sex and babies.” My midsection’s ability to create proto-humans is something I have to fight against every fucking day. Getting a birth control prescription. Paying for it. Taking it every day. Wondering if I’m pregnant. Buying pregnancy tests. Defending why I don’t want children. Swallowing painkillers for my ovaries. Bleeding out of my vagina. Dealing with CVS while bleeding out of my vagina. [...]

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:05:25 +0000

The word from CVS spokesperson Mike DeAngelis:

The locks were in place to prevent shoplifters from “grabbing a whole bunch of condoms and running out of the store,” says CVS spokesperson Mike DeAngelis. “The stores that had to keep condoms locked experienced shoplifting to such a degree that our entire inventory was being wiped out,” he says. “There were no longer condoms available for customers to purchase.”

By: Coleman

Coleman — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:16:41 +0000

Thanks for staying with this issue. Maybe you mentioned this way back in another post, but what, exactly, is the company's rationale behind locking up rubbers? In the District, CVS is so monopolistic that this internal corporate policy is something of a public health issue.

By: chicago office

chicago office — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:59:28 +0000

I never understood why they put condoms behind those glass cases, is the rate of condom theft high or something? I agree with you it's embarrassing as hell to ask a sales associate to open that case for you.

What the cashier said to you was totally inappropriate, should have told the manager! I guess that would be a little embarrassing in itself though.