I think it would be PRESUMPTIOUS of me to tell the brilliant CVS management team how to run their business...BUT...  What's up with the 6 yard long RECEIPTS?!  There has to be a better way to deliver coupons to me than printing a ½ mile long "coupon" receipt every time I buy a tube of toothpaste.  It's gotten so I am loath to patronize CVS.  I have other options.  Walgreens is only a block away and it doesn't partake in this kind of retail insanity.  Even the CVS cashiers are apologetic as they struggle to roll-up a Torah length receipt and pass it to you in a way that doesn't resemble a ticker tape parade. Sometimes there is more "receipt" in my bag than product.  The cashiers can only ring up three customers before they have to replace the tape in the register.  Ever been the sucker "next in line" during that tedious operation? 

 

But then, every once in a while the GODS smile and you get a coupon for $5 off your next $15 purchase.  That's like hitting the CVS receipt JACKPOT.  If you are appropriately masochistic, I recommend going straight from the check out line, back into the store and buying something with that coupon right away.  Because you KNOW you are going to lose it once it goes in your wallet, car or purse...or worse, you keep it until it expires and then have to throw it away.  Like when my Stop and Shop free ham butt coupon expired...which bothers me to this day.  So take advantage.  Buy some high end tanning lotion, or some crazy cellulite melt-away lotion - something you wouldn't buy unless it was 33% off. Something that would make the CVS head honchettes deliriously happy.
 
But really, there really has to be a better, more environmentally friendly way to get us to try the latest pharmaceutical products than drowning us in receipts.  How about handing out free samples?  It works at Costco.  I come home with a new flavor of FUDGY WUDGY fudge every time...All it takes is a tiny sample.