woman having asthma attack denied inhaler, $1.99 short... SCREW CVS!!

It makes me wonder whether some people have lost their humanity.

...In addition, you cannot just go into a pharmacy and buy an inhaler. It is a prescription only medication. Does NJ even have a sales tax prescription meds? Most states do not.

The woman is too stupid to live -- it had been happening regularly for days yet she takes a walk without the inhaler? What of her personal responsibiity? It's all CVS's fault.

Oh comon Faith. I am sure you have left home without something before. But indeed something that important. For me it sucks getting close to 60. I forget stuff all the time.

I feel that not CVS, but the guy behind the counter was an asshole!


I personally think this is a BS story with the couple trying to get some money out of the business. I have never been into a CVS when there weren't a few other shoppers and store helper around. There is no way that somebody wouldn't have given them a lousy couple of bucks to make up the difference. Still, while the guy behind the counter might be an asshole, especially since this was a supposedly emergency situation, can you imagine just how many times a day he runs into people who are having difficulty affording their meds? Is he supposed to chip in his own money?

Having a son with asthma, a responsible person never goes out of the house without an inhaler. Not to mention the fact that the woman should have sat down when she started to have the first signs of distress rather than to continue walking. I still can't let her off the hook for lack of responsibility...that's what will eventually cause her death.

she should know that McDonalds "food" always gives you asthma attacks.

learn breathing techniques so you dont need their drugs.

He should be fired. What a piece of crap human being.

He should be fired. What a piece of crap human being.

So let me get this straight , if I forget my inhaler I should die because a pharmacist is worried about a couple of bucks. CVS is run by " CORPORATE SCUMBAGS FROM THE TOP DOWN " they are not concerned about customers or any seisures taking place in their stores. How customers are treated is a reflection of how they treat their employees which is a system of fear, intimidation,and an inadequate work force with impossible work loads, managers alter time cards to deny overtime and offer little respect to their employed. Workers report to their human resource department, and are promptly fired for manufactured reasons to deny unemployment, lawsuits, etc. Under such an atmosphere and stressful work enviroment CVS offers to it's employees, how can anyone place their trust in such a horrible company to dispense critical life saving drugs and maintenance medicines ?
With something as important as our medicines we need to function normally or stay alive, how can you trust CVS with their track record.
CVS should close up shop and convert their stores to shop and goes or quick stops. All customers and former employees and their friends and family who have been wronged by CVS need to start posting their complaints starting here and stop patronizing CVS stores.

"BOYCOTT CVS "

Give me a break.

Look I watched the video and this chick was a dipshit.

If you have Asama and you depend on an inhaler in case you have a attack you do not leave home without it.

Ever,period.

CVS and all establishments are in it to make money.

It is not CVS' fault that these two STUPID people did not have the money to pay the sales tax.

That is the amount they were short.

I am effing tired of people thinking we all should be compassionate,especially for stupid people.

Humans by nature are not compassionate to strangers.

Go to other countries other than the USA.

No pay you no get it.

And yes I read somebody spoke of lawsuit.

For what?

Not giving away a product for free and charging somebody else for it?

I'll bet she won't leave home without it now.

Give me a break.

Look I watched the video and this chick was a dipshit.

If you have Asama and you depend on an inhaler in case you have a attack you do not leave home without it.

Ever,period.

CVS and all establishments are in it to make money.

It is not CVS' fault that these two STUPID people did not have the money to pay the sales tax.

That is the amount they were short.

I am effing tired of people thinking we all should be compassionate,especially for stupid people.

Humans by nature are not compassionate to strangers.

Go to other countries other than the USA.

No pay you no get it.

And yes I read somebody spoke of lawsuit.

For what?

Not giving away a product for free and charging somebody else for it?

I'll bet she won't leave home without it now.

Just after seven o'clock Thursday morning, Katherine O'Connor and her boyfriend were walking home from a McDonald's in Garwood, New Jersey, when she suffered an asthma attack.

"It has been happening every day for the past four or five days," she said.

Her inhaler was at home. The couple was near there, but a CVS on North Avenue, near Cedar Street, was closer. They went in and found the pharmacist on duty.

"I had exactly a twenty-dollar bill. It came to twenty-one and change," Jack Brown said. "I offered him my cell phone, my wallet. I said i live right around the corner. I come in here all the time."

He was told the inhaler with tax would cost just over $21. He was short a dollar and change.

"I said 'Can you just give her the pump. She's on the floor wheezing," Jack said. "I didn't know if an ambulance would get there on time. He said there was nothing he could do for me."

[link to www.myfoxny.com]

I have adult-onset asthma. Mine is rather mild in that it takes a few hours before an attack becomes life-threatening.

Still......I NEVER, EVER, EVER leave my home without my inhaler.

The current price for prescription inhalers is so prohibitive for me, that I more often than not use an over the counter brand.

We called that particular CVS after seeing the story on the news.

We were told it was a scam and the couple has called to apologize and the corrected story is supposed to be playing on fox tonight, 10-15.

I haven't found anything on the net to confirm it was a scam.