CVS

CVS is a pharmacy in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, located at 450 Clinton Street. It serves customers in Woonsocket and the surrounding area with pharmacy services and health and beauty products. The company was founded in 1963 in Lowell, Massachusetts, by Stanley and Sidney Goldstein alongside Ralph Hoagland, and began by selling health and beauty products. It opened its first stores with pharmacies in them in 1967, expanding into Cumberland and Warwick, Rhode Island. CVS stands for Consumer Value Stores. Its offerings include prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, personal care products, cosmetics, and beauty products, along with pharmacy benefit management, formulary management, prescription management, and specialty pharmacy services. MinuteClinic locations provide additional care, and the company also offers health insurance products through Aetna, which it acquired in 2018.

The Clinton Street location sits about a tenth of a mile from Clinton Street itself and roughly the same distance from the Mill River and the Blackstone Canal. The Blackstone River nature preserve is about two tenths of a mile away, as is the Woonsocket Harris Public Library. Social Street runs about two tenths of a mile from the site.

CVS operates as a pharmacy and healthcare company, with a history of programs such as hemophilia patient home health care, the Caremark mail service pharmacy, and disease management programs. For pharmacy needs, customer service support is available by phone Monday through Friday, and MinuteClinic inquiries are handled through a separate line. The company's operations are based in the United States, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.