CVS changes its 指名する to CVS Health and stops selling タバコ 製品s in an 試みる/企てる to re-brand in more health-conscious age

  • CVS Caremark 計画(する)s to stop selling タバコ 製品s in all of its 蓄える/店s starting Wednesday
  • Health 専門家s hope the move will be followed by other major drugstore chains
  • CVS 発表するd in February that it planned to 減少(する) タバコ by?October?1 as the?sales 衝突d with its health care 使節団.?
  • CVS will 発表する a 法人組織の/企業の 指名する change to CVS Health
  • 小売 蓄える/店s will still be called CVS/Pharmacy.

CVS has finally kicked the habit and dropped cigarettes from its 蓄える/店s.

The pharmacy is 試みる/企てるing become more health conscious and is sharpening its 焦点(を合わせる) on 顧客 health.

The nation's second-largest drugstore chain will stop the sale of タバコ nearly a month sooner than planned.

CVS Caremark said it will now be known as CVS Health, 効果的な すぐに. The 調印するs on its 概略で 7,700 drugstores won't change, so the tweak may not 登録(する) with shoppers.

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A change in health: Rhode Island-based CVS Caremark will now be known as CVS Health, and stores will stop the sale of tobacco nearly a month sooner than planned

A change in health: Rhode Island-based CVS Caremark will now be known as CVS Health, and 蓄える/店s will stop the sale of タバコ nearly a month sooner than planned

Kicking the habit: CVS announced plans Wednesday that it has pulled all remaining cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco and other tobacco products from each of its 7,700 pharmacies nationwide

Kicking the habit: CVS 発表するd 計画(する)s Wednesday that it has pulled all remaining cigarettes, cigars, smokeless タバコ and other タバコ 製品s from each of its 7,700 pharmacies 全国的な

Bright ideas: CVS Health President and CEO Larry J. Merlo gives an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange about the decision stop selling all tobacco products

有望な ideas: CVS Health 大統領 and CEO Larry J. Merlo gives an interview on the 床に打ち倒す of the New York 在庫/株 交流 about the 決定/判定勝ち(する) stop selling all タバコ 製品s

However, those 顧客s will see a big change when they check out.?

The cigars and cigarettes that used to fill the 棚上げにするs behind 蓄える/店 cash 登録(する)s have been 取って代わるd with nicotine gum and other 製品s that help people kick the タバコ habit. CVS said earlier this year that it would stop selling タバコ 製品s on October 1.

CVS and other drugstores have delved deeper into 顧客 health care in 最近の years, in part to serve the 高齢化 Baby にわか景気 世代 and the millions of uninsured people who are 推定する/予想するd to 伸び(る) ニュース報道 under the 連邦の health care 精密検査する.?

They've built hundreds of walk-in clinics in their 蓄える/店s and have 刻々と 拡大するd the services they 供給する.

Change for the better: The cigars and cigarettes that used to fill the shelves behind store cash registers have been replaced with nicotine gum and other products that help people kick the tobacco habit

Change for the better: The c igars and cigarettes that used to fill the 棚上げにするs behind 蓄える/店 cash 登録(する)s have been 取って代わるd with nicotine gum and other 製品s that help people kick the タバコ habit

The move to go タバコ-解放する/自由な, carries a 相当な 危険 to CVS' 底(に届く) line, but it 持つ/拘留するs the 可能性のある for a long-称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 競争の激しい advantage over its peers, 特に Walgreens, , the nation's largest pharmacy retailer

Drugstores now 申し込む/申し出 an array of ワクチン接種s and flu 発射s, and their clinics can help 監視する chronic illnesses like 糖尿病 or high 血 圧力. CVS said its new 指名する 反映するs its broader かかわり合い to health care.

'We're doing more and more to 延長する the 前線 lines of health care,' CEO Larry Merlo said.

As part of this 押し進める, the drugstore chain 発表するd earlier this year that it would 段階 out タバコ sales.

The company said it could no longer sell タバコ in a setting where health care is 配達するd, and the presence of that 製品 was hard to 正当化する when it tried teaming up with hospital groups and doctors to help with 患者 care.

Merlo said the company moved up its やめる date nearly a month because they got ready for the move sooner than they 心配するd, not because its 配当 中心s had already run out of タバコ.

Rebrand: The company, long known as CVS Caremark Corp., 発表するd 計画(する)s to rebrand as CVS Health, a (疑いを)晴らす nod to the broader 役割 it hopes to play in the health care market

The 法人組織の/企業の 指名する change 代表するs an 改良 because the 普通の/平均(する) person didn't understand the word Caremark, which 代表するs the company's pharmacy 利益s 管理/経営 商売/仕事, said Laura Ries, 大統領,/社長 of the brand 協議するing 会社/堅い Ries & Ries.

The new 指名する may 供給する a better sense of what CVS does to the few 投資家s or people on 塀で囲む Street who don't know about the company, which is 階級d 12th in the 2014 Fortune 500.

But Ries said the 指名する's 力/強力にする is 限られた/立憲的な because health is a generic word that is ありふれた in many company 指名するs.

'It's an 改良 off of Caremark, but it's not some amazing wonderful thing that will change the world,' she said.

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