{"id":362,"date":"2015-02-17T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=362"},"modified":"2015-02-17T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:29:47","slug":"c-v-s-receipts-are-well-a-little-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"C.V.S. Receipts Are Well, A Little Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B1jFKJVCYAA7OYY.jpg\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"244\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When your receipts are so long that they are being parodied in a Halloween costume, it might be time to shorten them a bit, no?<\/p>\n<p>In an interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2013\/08\/30\/long-cvs-receipts-spark-social-media-sensation\/VzQeVzNmBB3ECqy6vQtj1N\/story.html\">with The Boston Globe<\/a> last year, CVS Chief Marketing Officer Rob Price said the retailer&#8217;s loyalty program is to blame for the long receipts. As part of the loyalty program strategy, the company includes coupons on receipts in hopes of bringing customers back.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>For members of the chain&#8217;s loyalty program, receipts are tailored to include coupons for items the shopper might be interested in.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0For instance, someone who buys nail polish frequently might get coupons for cosmetics.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds great, except my last receipt contained coupons for tampons, diet products and Rogaine. \u00a0As a thin male who still has his hair, I have to wonder about CVS&#8217;s tailor.<\/p>\n<p>One customer said it well on her Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BR5Wy92CUAAcdBb.jpg\" alt=\"Embedded image permalink\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>So excited to finally be down to my goal waist of 1\/2 a CVS receipt!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More about CVS receipt length can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/08\/21\/cvs-receipts-long_n_3790991.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/ryanhatesthis\/this-guys-extra-long-cvs-receipt-costume-is-literally-perfec#.ayokl7Bmd\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s more about the costume.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Oh and there is actually a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cvs_receipt\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter hashtag<\/a> that is pretty interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Please subscribe so you&#8217;ll get updates and other news! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?page_id=216\" target=\"_blank\"> Here&#8217;s 6 good reasons to subscribe.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your receipts are so long that they are being parodied in a Halloween costume, it might be time to shorten them a bit, no? In an interview with The Boston Globe last year, CVS Chief Marketing Officer Rob Price said the retailer&#8217;s loyalty program is to blame for the long receipts. As part of <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=362\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-companies","category-retail-humor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}