Cvs Is Changing How It Sells Over-the-counter Meds

CVS is introducing a awesome alteration to nan measurement it packages its over-the-counter narcotics arsenic portion of its ongoing marque refresh.

The drugstore concatenation will soon statesman to waste its OTC medications successful bottles made from aluminum rather than plastic.

Pill bottles person mostly looked nan aforesaid since nan 1950's and 1960's erstwhile medicine came successful solid bottles. Since then, medicine pill bottles person mostly been amber cylinders, while OTC medications are mostly packaged successful achromatic integrative bottles.

CVS is bucking that inclination and embracing aluminum.

“For OTC medications, aluminum packaging offers respective applicable and sustainability benefits," Mike Wier, nan vice president of shop brands astatine CVS, told Wired. “Like much accepted packaging options, aluminum provides a beardown obstruction to thief support stableness and support life.”

The first of CVS's branded OTC medications to modulation to aluminum will beryllium its value-sized allergy and symptom medications. These are nan large bottles of CVS's versions of celebrated branded medications for illustration Allegra, Claritin, and Tylenol.

The caller bottles will reportedly beryllium lighter than existent integrative pill bottles. Pricing will not beryllium affected by nan packaging change.

In summation to being lighter, nan bottles will besides beryllium much recyclable than nan plastic. Despite nan worldly being much recyclable, Wier told Wired that nan metallic bottles will still usage nan emblematic integrative caps, truthful they'll person to beryllium separated earlier they're recycled.

CVS will beryllium monitoring customer consequence to nan caller metallic bottles. If it's positive, nan institution whitethorn grow nan conversion to much of its medications.

The institution said that it's redesigning its packaging to make it easier for customers to find their medications.