I just remembered i went to cvs on Wednesday. It just opened. It was a grand opening. It was nearly empty. I got accosted by 3 different smiling employees nearly screaming "Good afternoon sir, welcome to cvs", forcing me to reply "No thank you" repeatedly before making it roughly to the section I needed, then finally at the 4th "Good afternoon", and getting a "can I help you?" I gave up and politely said "Sure, why not? Im looking for Q-tips..." The guy was like "Oh! Just right over here sir" and walked with me then pointed at racks and racks of cvs brand cotton swabs. I maintained my cool and managed to inform him Q-tips are a brand of cotton swab, not a generic term for cotton swabs, and he said "Oh, sorry sir, we dont carry Q-tip brand cotton swabs." I managed to hold in my rage, started backing away mumbled a nearly unintelligible "Thanks anyway", grabbed a tube of toothpaste with my now sweaty and shaking hand, walked to the register while avoiding eye contact with all the nearly hostile heat-seeking employees, and placed it at the counter. The cashier was smiling and asked, "Did you find everything you were looking for, sir?", I managed to stammer "uh.. no... no i didn't". She hesitated and looked alarmed and asked "Can I help you find what you're looking for?" I was nearly choking at this point. I said "Uh.. Q-tips... I was looki-" she cut me off and said "Oh we have plenty! Over in aisle (whatever aisle i was just in), Robert (I think it was robert, it was the same name as the guy who had just lied to me and wasted my time) can help you!" I stared at her in stunned disbelief then she asked me if I was ok. I said "I just want to pay and get out of here I don't even use this brand toothpaste!" She said "I'm so sorry sir! Do you have a cvs extracare rewards card?" I got the hell out of there. What kind of place treats potential customers with such hostility and requires their own proprietary form of payment? Fuck cvs