I really really like CVS.  Maybe I'm even addicted.  So much so that I feel for our long term local pharmacy, but how can one resist the avalanche of discount mailers and bonuses that spew out when you pay?

Last (Black) Friday I was armed with saved discount chits and slips. I attacked with the plan that the more I bought the more I'd save.  In the frenzied process I cornered the market on vitamins (without regard to those annoying expiration dates). 

Purchases completed and line endured, I rolled up to the check out counter only to be crushed by the news that my chits had expired. Little solice that I was given the option to return my purchases. 

All in all, it was the perfect squelch. 

Maybe I should return my loyalty to the local pharmacy.  Or maybe the clerk should have reached under the register for his discount card. 

Such problems!