By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/03/2026Then, you're expected to check out your own purchases - shifting labor from workers on CVS's payroll to you - with badly maintained machines that often misfire and require you to wait again for that lone employee to come and override them. 15/ 161
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/03/2026Meanwhile, that employee is absorbing a gigantic amount of frustration and abuse from customers who are paying high prices and enduring long waits - another cost that CVS shifts from their shareholders to someone else (workers, in this case). 16/ 161
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/03/2026Finally, CVS demands that publicly funded police respond to the inevitable shoplifting and other security problems created by running a big-box store with a skeleton crew, shifting costs from the business to *everyone* in the local tax-base. 17/ 162
