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CVS Might Let You Open Locked Shelves With Your Phone


A new update to CVS's mobile app includes a feature that allows some customers to access items on locked shelves using their phone -- "without having to summon an overworked employee to open it first," reports The Verge. The feature is currently being trialed in a handful of stores, but will be expa...

A new update to CVS's mobile app includes a feature that allows some customers to access items on locked shelves using their phone-- "without having to summon an overworked employee to open it first," reports The Verge. From the report: According to The Wall Street Journal, "app users need to be logged in, on the local store Wi-Fi, and with their device's Bluetooth enabled to activate the feature." "People really, really dislike locked cabinets," Tilak Mandadi, executive vice president of ventures at CVS Health, told the Journal.

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