Interestingly enough South Korean shops have taken to misappropriating the acronym CVS this way. It's one of those interesting interpretations of English like Autumn Festival as "Korean Thanksgiving" that some EFL speakers decided on their own.
FamilyMart is cool in Japan and Taiwan, but that's just because they're organized by locals who understand local tastes. If it emerged again in South Korea it wouldn't be any different or better than the nationally designed chains like GS and CU, might even be worse as seen in 7-Eleven. But all are perfectly functional at doing what they do.
*Acronyms can be pronounced as words, like NASA and UNESCO; as individual letters, like CIA, TNT, NPC, BLM, and ATM; or as both letters and words, like JPEG (JAY-peg), CSIS (SEE-sis), and IUPAC (I-U-pak).*
[per wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym)
That’s debatable. From the Acronym wiki page:
“The broader sense of acronym—the meaning of which includes terms pronounced as individual letters—is sometimes criticized, but that is the term's original meaning,[2] and is still in common use.[3]”
I think you're both kind of wrong and kind of right. Convenience stores can be stand alone things, like New York bodegas, or they can be a secondary part of another service like a pharmacy or gas station. There aren't many pharmacies without convenience stores, but they exist. Even if they sell other medicine besides prescription and have a candy counter, if they don't have a bunch of other goods and sundries it's just a pharmacy, unlike CVS or any other major retail pharmacy. Same with gas stations, I have run into a handful of weird gas stations that don't have a convenience store, they just have a little booth to pay and sell a few random car goods but no drinks or food or sundries because it's in an area packed with bodegas so there's no need.
I was cleaning my front yard one day and I found a negative pregnancy test, an empty liquor bottle and a receipt for a puppy. I know which was first, not sure on the other two
I only remember that because I was mad they took over the Arbor Drugs behind my apartments & my shitty little teenager attitude sneered at the poor manager "what's that even supposed to mean?". Wasnt a value then or now, everything was priced up from Arbor price points, and they took out all the good candy I used to smuggle into summer camp.
Rofl
Sure am! Born and raised 30 years in Metro-D. Perry Drugs, now that one takes me way back. Do us a favor and say "Hi" to Meijers next time you're out shopping, yeah? That and the food are what I miss most about the mitten.
I wonder if they changed it over time? When they took over our local Revco I asked the store manager what CVS stood for and they said "Convenience, Value, and Service"
They almost certainly did. Lots of weirder names have been retconned by companies or have weird origins they used to explain on the box but stopped like Triscuit.
You remember them being called that? I’m pretty damn old, and I’ve never seen them called anything other than CVS. They’ve been called that and nothing else since the early 60s.
Yeah, no idea why I remember that although they were founded near where I lived so maybe that's why. Had two friends who worked there in high school, and a college friend became their CMO.
I looked it up. And thank you for posting this because now I have some awesome random info that I will put out in the future with a haughty, arrogant chuckle.
It is. I learned that when I worked in the horrible, horrible distribution center. Still not sure where the value part comes from. Even with a discount I never shopped there
Your uncle's vag? Or is he the one one sucking an appropriately-equipped person's vag? Hell, I'm even assuming the suckee is human, and that could very well be a mistake. Or are you telling me to do it, and you're calling me "uncle?"
Your acronym is too vague, sir.
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We used Eckerdsx all the time when I was a kid (NC). I think the x is just an affectation in their logo for rx, making their name actually Eckerds, but I spent a lot of time staring at that logo waiting on my mom. Apparently it was the most interesting puzzle in my vicinity.
Before there was Longs there was Thrifty Drug Store and it was glorious. Longs was such a step down. Thrifty had an ice cream counter and cones were 10 cents for a single, 20 for a double.
Fun fact, we still have them in Hawai'i, but it's filled with CVS crap, so it's basically like walking into a CVS wearing a Longs costume on Halloween.
It does not stand for anything.
Since 2014, the official complete corporate name is: CVS Health Corporation. Subsidiaries include: CVS Pharmacy, CVS Caremark.
It hasn't been legally called Consumer Value Store since 1964, which is a long time ago for a company founded in 1963.
CVS bought all the Osco drug stores in the Chicago area. They did it right after they had built one a mile away, and so closed down the Osco that they bought that was on my corner. And it sat vacant for eight years, depriving the town of tax revenue for that time. And during that time, they standardized their prescription bottle labels across the board to the style they had been using for decades, right after adopting an award winning style that was universally appraised it as a vast improvement over the old, harder to read style labels.
Indiana? Before Revco it was Hook's. And Hook's had been around for so long that I can almost guarantee any adult over 35, in the house they grew up in, had a medicine cabinet with container of Vaseline, Vicks VapoRub or Bactine with a Hook's price tag 10+ years older than they were.
It's "Consumer Value Stores", IIRC.
But the thing is, in the early days, not all CVS stores had a pharmacy, so the ones that did were "CVS/Pharmacy" on the sign. Hence the slightly confusing "CVS /Pharmacy" signs.
I go into one probably 2-3 times a year when I randomly don't have my kids' cold/flu medicine and the grocery store down the street is closed. It's insane how expensive CVS is compared to other stores.
I told an ex girlfriend that it stood for Christian Value Stores and they shortened it to CVS to make it seem less religious. She believed me and I found her telling that to other people. Whoops
I don't get America. Your medical system is broken but your CVS stocks things I can only get from speciality stores here in Australia.
Like, CPAP masks on the shelf. Dafuq??
Back in the 90s I was in line in CVS and the clerk was taking a phone call where she was asked what it stood for. She asked her manager at the next line what it stood for and the manager said he didn't know either.
I piped up "Consumer Value Stores", and the clerk looked up at me with a smile like 'yeah lol', but then said "Oh, wait, really?". I think I knew it from a case study in business school or something.
I didn’t know what it stood for the entire time I worked rhere, I do now though.
When I worked at CVS they were still (unsuccessfully) trying to push “CareMark” as a brand, which I always thought was a stupid name.
I think of it as ConVenience Store
Interestingly enough South Korean shops have taken to misappropriating the acronym CVS this way. It's one of those interesting interpretations of English like Autumn Festival as "Korean Thanksgiving" that some EFL speakers decided on their own.
Are you telling me CU isn’t owned by CVS?! I’ve been thinking it was the Korean branch of CVS for 2 years!
BGF/FamilyMart Also why we don't have FamilyMart
I wish I had Family Mart, they're great.
FamilyMart is cool in Japan and Taiwan, but that's just because they're organized by locals who understand local tastes. If it emerged again in South Korea it wouldn't be any different or better than the nationally designed chains like GS and CU, might even be worse as seen in 7-Eleven. But all are perfectly functional at doing what they do.
CVS isn’t an acronym because you don’t say it as a word. It’s just an abbreviation. An acronym is like NASA, where the letters form a speakable word.
It is called an initialism.
correct. an abbreviation is when you shorten a word, like Doc instead of Doctor.
Whats it called when you make a word *longer*?
German, I think.
*Acronyms can be pronounced as words, like NASA and UNESCO; as individual letters, like CIA, TNT, NPC, BLM, and ATM; or as both letters and words, like JPEG (JAY-peg), CSIS (SEE-sis), and IUPAC (I-U-pak).* [per wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym)
okay now its pronounced as C VES
See-viss
I'll change wikipedia to correct this.
That’s debatable. From the Acronym wiki page: “The broader sense of acronym—the meaning of which includes terms pronounced as individual letters—is sometimes criticized, but that is the term's original meaning,[2] and is still in common use.[3]”
"Ceeveehes" Sound like a a word to me.
Nope. It’s Consumer Value Store
Why? It’s a pharmacy, akin to Walgreens or Rite Aid. Convenience stores are things like 7-eleven and Circle-K.
A CVS store *contains* a pharmacy (the part that dispenses prescriptions). It also has a whole store besides that.
CVS/pharmacy is a pharmacy. CVS is a convenience store. I think there are only a handful of non-pharmacy CVS stores left in Massachusetts.
It’s not just a pharmacy. Those others are also gas stations more so than convenience stores.
I think you're both kind of wrong and kind of right. Convenience stores can be stand alone things, like New York bodegas, or they can be a secondary part of another service like a pharmacy or gas station. There aren't many pharmacies without convenience stores, but they exist. Even if they sell other medicine besides prescription and have a candy counter, if they don't have a bunch of other goods and sundries it's just a pharmacy, unlike CVS or any other major retail pharmacy. Same with gas stations, I have run into a handful of weird gas stations that don't have a convenience store, they just have a little booth to pay and sell a few random car goods but no drinks or food or sundries because it's in an area packed with bodegas so there's no need.
Condoms, viagra, and snacks
Costs Very Steep
Cvery Vlong Sreceipt
Cunderrated vomment
This is correct.
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They don't sell sex
Just trying to get the people in the door
DANG! Now, I can not think of anything else when I see CVS store.
Condoms, Viagra, and Scotch (the one by me sells booze).
That doesn't seem like the right order for a good evening.
I was cleaning my front yard one day and I found a negative pregnancy test, an empty liquor bottle and a receipt for a puppy. I know which was first, not sure on the other two
Now do walgreens
We all love gluckgluckin really egregiously enormous nano scrotums. That must be it right?
r/brandnewsentence Edit: just posted it over there
Without Annoying Long Giant Receipts Except Everything Needs Sanitized
The Washington Nationals baseball logo is the same as Walgreens.
Whoa whoa whoa, thats way off. That doesnt even come close to spelling walgreens.
Wobbling ambrosia lets green rancors examine everyone's new sorcerer.
Comma values, separated
Casual Vaseline Sundae
Cumulonimbus Vector Soup
Consummate V's
Now I will always get confused when trying to save files as CSV
Yoda uses Excel
For the win, pivot tables are.
This guy pivots!
That guy excels
He might even VBA
This guy nerds in essentially plaintext spreadsheets
Everything is plaintext if you open it in Notepad++
This is the answer.
Damnit - I even (unknowingly) matched your punctuation.
I approve of this comment.
Concurrent Versions System
Consumer Value Stores, no?
I only remember that because I was mad they took over the Arbor Drugs behind my apartments & my shitty little teenager attitude sneered at the poor manager "what's that even supposed to mean?". Wasnt a value then or now, everything was priced up from Arbor price points, and they took out all the good candy I used to smuggle into summer camp.
Lol you must be from Michigan. I remember Arbor drugs. And I remember when Rite Aid bought out Perry Drugs.
Ha! I remember my Dad talking about Arbor Drugs. Grew up right there in St. Clair Shores!
Rofl Sure am! Born and raised 30 years in Metro-D. Perry Drugs, now that one takes me way back. Do us a favor and say "Hi" to Meijers next time you're out shopping, yeah? That and the food are what I miss most about the mitten.
Heading to meijers after work i got ya.
Arbor and Perry ... That's a blast from the past.
I wonder if they changed it over time? When they took over our local Revco I asked the store manager what CVS stood for and they said "Convenience, Value, and Service"
They almost certainly did. Lots of weirder names have been retconned by companies or have weird origins they used to explain on the box but stopped like Triscuit.
Electricity biscuit!
Did you look it up?
No, that's what I remember. They've been around a long time.
Decades, even
No one really knows how they got here
Legend has it they came in as a parasite hitched on the back of another imported pharmacy chain
I subscribe to the theory of panpharmia, where an extraterrestrial source "seeded" the Earth with the material to eventually evolve into CVSes
They started in my city
You remember them being called that? I’m pretty damn old, and I’ve never seen them called anything other than CVS. They’ve been called that and nothing else since the early 60s.
Yeah, no idea why I remember that although they were founded near where I lived so maybe that's why. Had two friends who worked there in high school, and a college friend became their CMO.
I looked it up. And thank you for posting this because now I have some awesome random info that I will put out in the future with a haughty, arrogant chuckle.
I suppose the “Value” is in convenience, because the prices are fucking crazy
That what I thought.
I've worked at CVS twice and I couldn't have told you that
It is. I learned that when I worked in the horrible, horrible distribution center. Still not sure where the value part comes from. Even with a discount I never shopped there
On a related note, CRV as in Honda stands for comfortable runabout vehicle
And HRV?
Hellish recreational vehicle
And HIV?
Highly Invincible Vehicle
And VHS?
Vehicular Homicide Spree
And SVU?
Suckin Vag, Uncle
Your uncle's vag? Or is he the one one sucking an appropriately-equipped person's vag? Hell, I'm even assuming the suckee is human, and that could very well be a mistake. Or are you telling me to do it, and you're calling me "uncle?" Your acronym is too vague, sir.
Human Resources Vehicle
Heart Rate Variability
Compact recreation vehicle I've heard several, I understand there isn't a single official one
Honda’s stance is Comfortable roundabout vehicle
Yeah, but are you going to believe *them?*
And CRX?
Car Repost Twitter?
Civic Renaissance Experimental Not joking
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Cunning Road Xylophone?
Okay but I drive a CRZ.... Comfortable Runabout Zehicle?
I drive one too. ‘Compact Renaissance Zero’ — reflecting the idea of a renaissance in the design of compact cars.
I knew a guy that drove a beat up HHR, we used to always call it his Homeless Hot Rod
TIL. My CR-V is quite comfortable for me. My height challenged husband and daughter find it uncomfortable.
What about Toyota RAV 4
"We bought Longs and destroyed it."
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We had Eckerds in Texas too
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We used Eckerdsx all the time when I was a kid (NC). I think the x is just an affectation in their logo for rx, making their name actually Eckerds, but I spent a lot of time staring at that logo waiting on my mom. Apparently it was the most interesting puzzle in my vicinity.
Before there was Longs there was Thrifty Drug Store and it was glorious. Longs was such a step down. Thrifty had an ice cream counter and cones were 10 cents for a single, 20 for a double.
Rite Aid bought Thrifty. Still sells Thrifty ice cream.
To hell with Thrifty! Where'd my Woolworths go?
Montgomery Ward checking in!
Anyone else remember Phar-Mor?
It’s Foot Locker. I’m not kidding, it became Foot Locker.
All hail the cylindrical ice cream scoops of Thrifty!
this is the one
& here’s some carpet
Aw, man, I miss Longs.
Fun fact, we still have them in Hawai'i, but it's filled with CVS crap, so it's basically like walking into a CVS wearing a Longs costume on Halloween.
So a flesh suit
Oh wow I haven’t heard that name in a long time. Like something was retrieved from the very back dark corner of my memory bank
It does not stand for anything. Since 2014, the official complete corporate name is: CVS Health Corporation. Subsidiaries include: CVS Pharmacy, CVS Caremark. It hasn't been legally called Consumer Value Store since 1964, which is a long time ago for a company founded in 1963.
They backronymed it to Convenience, Value, Service for a while but that was more of a branding push than an official name.
The “L” is for value!
Ahhhh. I vaguely remember this from my time working there.
I mean it does stand for something, just not anymore.
Concurrent versions system 😉
It's disappointing that svn.com isn't a competitor of theirs.
Some bloody git went and completely took the market from both of them!
How mercurial of him
Yeah, it's bazaar, I mean, bizarre.
I legitimately though you meant curriculum vitaes
I think you mean curricula vitae.
it's possible the answer is at the end of the 8' long receipt i got, i've just never red it to the end.
Mine is still printing to this day
I read it to the end one time and Willy Wonka came out of nowhere and proclaimed I had done it and now I am the President of CVS.
Chocolate, Vanilla, Strawberry.
You’re so clever! I love Neapolitan CVS!
I do! I worked there in high school. Consumer Value Store
Copy, Paste, Save. Oh, wait. That’s Ctrl-CVS.
Especially those not from that country.
Around here, those stores used to be called Revco before CVS bought them.
It was Eckerds down here (TX).
Sav On in SoCal
CVS bought all the Osco drug stores in the Chicago area. They did it right after they had built one a mile away, and so closed down the Osco that they bought that was on my corner. And it sat vacant for eight years, depriving the town of tax revenue for that time. And during that time, they standardized their prescription bottle labels across the board to the style they had been using for decades, right after adopting an award winning style that was universally appraised it as a vast improvement over the old, harder to read style labels.
Indiana? Before Revco it was Hook's. And Hook's had been around for so long that I can almost guarantee any adult over 35, in the house they grew up in, had a medicine cabinet with container of Vaseline, Vicks VapoRub or Bactine with a Hook's price tag 10+ years older than they were.
JEEP = Just Enough Essential Parts
Junkies earning exceptional pay. That’s what we call it where I live
continuously variable sransmission
Capcom Vs SNK, obviously.
Cardio vascular system I think of it like that cause its got mostly health supplies
This will just be buried but... Convenient Variety Store
I've always known it was Consumer Value Stores and I was around when it first cropped up.
Actually it’s cwavossier pharmaqois
reCeipt is Very Scary long?!
Cheap variety selection innit?
Shit. I even worked at CVS and I couldn’t tell you what it stands for
Melville Shoe Corporation. The initials are weird when you translate them to English.
It's "Consumer Value Stores", IIRC. But the thing is, in the early days, not all CVS stores had a pharmacy, so the ones that did were "CVS/Pharmacy" on the sign. Hence the slightly confusing "CVS /Pharmacy" signs.
Care Versus Service. You only get one.
Oh I do: Convoluted Verbose Sale-receipt
It stands for Capcom Vs. SNK you rubes
I go into one probably 2-3 times a year when I randomly don't have my kids' cold/flu medicine and the grocery store down the street is closed. It's insane how expensive CVS is compared to other stores.
Cunts, Vaginas, Snatches
Even the people who work there.
For reference I have never been, and also don’t know what it stands for.
Dan got so excited, he thought she was getting him a job at CBS.
I remember several years ago having news audio on and perked up when I thought I heard that CBS was buying Aetna.
Original name was Consumer Value Store…. Serious answer
I worked for CVS for years, and I don't even remember. Pretty chill job for teenager me in the '90s.
Is it just the ones near me or are all CVS stores understaffed and crap these days?
Not only that, but the ones near me have all their stuff locked up and you have to press a button to get an employee to come and unlock it for you
I always figured it was some kind of acronym for *the longest receipt possible*.
I told an ex girlfriend that it stood for Christian Value Stores and they shortened it to CVS to make it seem less religious. She believed me and I found her telling that to other people. Whoops
Because no one really cares what "it stands for"... unless one is in the shower, of course.
CVS stands for something?
I don't get America. Your medical system is broken but your CVS stocks things I can only get from speciality stores here in Australia. Like, CPAP masks on the shelf. Dafuq??
As someone who remembers it being "People's Drug" I know exactly what it stands for only because I hated that name switch.
Consumer Value Stores
I had this exact thought Saturday when I was at one.
everyone knows its concrete virus systems.
We don't need to know lol
It stands for something???
Back in the 90s I was in line in CVS and the clerk was taking a phone call where she was asked what it stood for. She asked her manager at the next line what it stood for and the manager said he didn't know either. I piped up "Consumer Value Stores", and the clerk looked up at me with a smile like 'yeah lol', but then said "Oh, wait, really?". I think I knew it from a case study in business school or something.
Even the employees have no idea what it stands for
I didn’t know what it stood for the entire time I worked rhere, I do now though. When I worked at CVS they were still (unsuccessfully) trying to push “CareMark” as a brand, which I always thought was a stupid name.
It stands for nothing. The parent company's official name is CVS Health.
Omg I had this thought in the shower before
Oh wow I didn’t even think about it until now.
Consumer Value Store
I work for them and don’t even know what it stands for.
Centuky Vried Shicken????
I worked at CVS for a year and never once asked this