Here's my 2-cents. I have no beef with CVS. They don't seem to have any problem communicating my records from store to store. The pharmacist at my regular store is friendly and helpful. On the rare occasion I have chosen to wait on the premises for a prescription, it usually takes them 10 minutes, max, to fill it. But the main reason I like CVS better than Walgreens is that I find their packaging easier to manage. It's very difficult for me to open and close the prescription bottles that Walgreens uses. CVS still uses the traditional push-to-open variety that work well. The lids never go on straight on the Walgreens bottles.

Okay, I don't like that CVS tracks my purchases with that stupid card, but I use it and it does come in handy. Not only does it get me the sale prices, but occasionally, it gives me "free money" (of sorts) to spend in the store however I need to. I nice that as long as I'm going to fill my prescriptions anyway, they're going to give me $5 or $10 or even $15 each quarter to use on kleenex or deoderant or chocolate-covered almonds, or whatever. Walgreens doesn't do that. I pay with my privacy, I realize, but they have a record of my prescriptions anyway, and CVS and my bank both have records of my other transactions because I used a debit card. I'm only getting complete privacy if I'm paying cash and not filling prescriptions. So be it.