CVS/pharmacy Launches Innovative New iPad App Featuring a 3D Virtual Store and Digital Pharmacy Experience
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Posted on March 25, 2013 at 1:07:01 PM
CVS/pharmacy Launches Innovative New iPad App Featuring a 3D Virtual Store and Digital Pharmacy Experience
New CVS/pharmacy iPad app makes it easy for customers to manage prescriptions and shop from their tablets
WOONSOCKET, R.I., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --CVS/pharmacy today launched a first-of-its-kind interactive app, delivering a unique digital drugstore experience for customers using Apple iPads. With the new CVS iPad app customers can explore a virtual 3D CVS/pharmacy and quickly access services from the Pharmacy, ExtraCare, Photo Center and MinuteClinic, as well as browse their favorite departments to shop. Designed to present a fun and interactive pathway to shop CVS/pharmacy and fill prescriptions, the CVS iPad app provides a personalized retail experience that helps consumers manage their healthcare and drugstore needs. The CVS iPad app was developed using technologies that bring to life a customized drugstore that customers can access with their fingertips, on-the-go or from the comfort and privacy of their own home.
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"As a pharmacy innovation company, CVS/pharmacy is committed to deploying new and emerging digital technologies that empower our customers on their path to better health," said Brian Tilzer, Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer for CVS/pharmacy. "The new CVS iPad app provides the millions of customers who visit CVS.com on a tablet device each month with a virtual feeling of visiting their neighborhood CVS/pharmacy from their home or on the go. Our app makes it unbelievably easy for customers to shop, fill prescriptions, manage their ExtraCare accounts and more through a highly personalized experience and 3D realism."
Available for free on iTunes, the CVS iPad app incorporates an interactive, user-friendly virtual CVS/pharmacy interface that relies on gesture-based movements that are native to touch-screen tablet environments. Tapping on popular areas of the store from the home screen will launch mini apps (different parts of the store) including:
-- Pharmacy Services with Enhanced Prescription Management: With the swipe
of a finger, customers can scroll through all their prescriptions in a
matter of seconds and take actions including scheduling refills and
viewing prescriptions available for pick-up. Caregivers can manage
prescriptions for themselves and their families, using native tablet
functionality such as drag-and-drop and easily sort by patient name,
refill status and more. Patients can also view prescription details
instantly with zoom-in detail screens and scan in refills using the iPad
camera (supported on iPad 3 and above).
-- ExtraCare with Coupon Center: Shoppers can sign in to manage their
ExtraCare savings and rewards by clicking the ExtraCare Coupon Center.
The ExtraCare mini app allows visitors to check their balances or sign
up for additional ExtraCare programs such as Beauty Club, ExtraCare
Advantage for Diabetes and ExtraCare Pharmacy & Health Rewards. Similar
to the in-store experience, customers are encouraged to make the
ExtraCare Coupon Center their first stop to receive new coupons and
personalized offers. On the CVS iPad app, they can view what offers are
available with easy rotating display and animations, and then choose to
send them directly to their ExtraCare card or print them.
-- Weekly Ad: Customers looking for deals or who prefer to plan ahead can
view the weekly circular for their preferred location by using the GPS
locator or entering their ZIP code. Additionally, customers can search
the ad by category or brand, or search for a specific product and build
shareable shopping lists.
-- Catalogue Style Shopping: Users can shop and search the full CVS.com
product catalog, sorted by category. Savvy shoppers can also access
weekly deals to take advantage of new offers every day on popular
household essentials, beauty products, health needs and gifts.
-- Photo Center: App users can upload photos from their tablet camera roll
to be printed for pick-up that very same day at a local CVS/pharmacy.
Customers can also see various other photo products available in-store.
-- MinuteClinic: Users can quickly locate the nearest MinuteClinic or
access a variety of informational resources on the types of services and
minor illness exams offered, as well as check the various kinds of
insurance accepted.
In the coming months, CVS/pharmacy will introduce support for additional tablet platforms and continue to enhance the CVS iPad app, offering additional new features that deepen the virtual shopping experience and offer informative and innovative ways for customers to interact with pharmacy services. For more information, visit CVS.com/onthego.
About CVS/pharmacy
CVS/pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS), is America's leading retail pharmacy with more than 7,400 CVS/pharmacy and Longs Drug stores. CVS/pharmacy is reinventing pharmacy to help people on their path to better health by providing the most accessible and personalized expertise, both in its stores and online at CVS.com. General information about CVS/pharmacy and CVS Caremark is available at http://info.cvscaremark.com.
Press Contact: Mike DeAngelis
CVS/pharmacy
T: 401.770.2645
E: Michael.DeAngelis@cvscaremark.com
Danielle Marcus
CVS/pharmacy
T: 401.770.4745
E: Danielle.Marcus@cvscaremark.com
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New CVS/pharmacy iPad app makes it easy for customers to manage prescriptions and shop from their tablets
WOONSOCKET, R.I., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --CVS/pharmacy today launched a first-of-its-kind interactive app, delivering a unique digital drugstore experience for customers using Apple iPads. With the new CVS iPad app customers can explore a virtual 3D CVS/pharmacy and quickly access services from the Pharmacy, ExtraCare, Photo Center and MinuteClinic, as well as browse their favorite departments to shop. Designed to present a fun and interactive pathway to shop CVS/pharmacy and fill prescriptions, the CVS iPad app provides a personalized retail experience that helps consumers manage their healthcare and drugstore needs. The CVS iPad app was developed using technologies that bring to life a customized drugstore that customers can access with their fingertips, on-the-go or from the comfort and privacy of their own home.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130325/NE82683 )
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/NE50800LOGO )
"As a pharmacy innovation company, CVS/pharmacy is committed to deploying new and emerging digital technologies that empower our customers on their path to better health," said Brian Tilzer, Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer for CVS/pharmacy. "The new CVS iPad app provides the millions of customers who visit CVS.com on a tablet device each month with a virtual feeling of visiting their neighborhood CVS/pharmacy from their home or on the go. Our app makes it unbelievably easy for customers to shop, fill prescriptions, manage their ExtraCare accounts and more through a highly personalized experience and 3D realism."
Available for free on iTunes, the CVS iPad app incorporates an interactive, user-friendly virtual CVS/pharmacy interface that relies on gesture-based movements that are native to touch-screen tablet environments. Tapping on popular areas of the store from the home screen will launch mini apps (different parts of the store) including:
-- Pharmacy Services with Enhanced Prescription Management: With the swipe
of a finger, customers can scroll through all their prescriptions in a
matter of seconds and take actions including scheduling refills and
viewing prescriptions available for pick-up. Caregivers can manage
prescriptions for themselves and their families, using native tablet
functionality such as drag-and-drop and easily sort by patient name,
refill status and more. Patients can also view prescription details
instantly with zoom-in detail screens and scan in refills using the iPad
camera (supported on iPad 3 and above).
-- ExtraCare with Coupon Center: Shoppers can sign in to manage their
ExtraCare savings and rewards by clicking the ExtraCare Coupon Center.
The ExtraCare mini app allows visitors to check their balances or sign
up for additional ExtraCare programs such as Beauty Club, ExtraCare
Advantage for Diabetes and ExtraCare Pharmacy & Health Rewards. Similar
to the in-store experience, customers are encouraged to make the
ExtraCare Coupon Center their first stop to receive new coupons and
personalized offers. On the CVS iPad app, they can view what offers are
available with easy rotating display and animations, and then choose to
send them directly to their ExtraCare card or print them.
-- Weekly Ad: Customers looking for deals or who prefer to plan ahead can
view the weekly circular for their preferred location by using the GPS
locator or entering their ZIP code. Additionally, customers can search
the ad by category or brand, or search for a specific product and build
shareable shopping lists.
-- Catalogue Style Shopping: Users can shop and search the full CVS.com
product catalog, sorted by category. Savvy shoppers can also access
weekly deals to take advantage of new offers every day on popular
household essentials, beauty products, health needs and gifts.
-- Photo Center: App users can upload photos from their tablet camera roll
to be printed for pick-up that very same day at a local CVS/pharmacy.
Customers can also see various other photo products available in-store.
-- MinuteClinic: Users can quickly locate the nearest MinuteClinic or
access a variety of informational resources on the types of services and
minor illness exams offered, as well as check the various kinds of
insurance accepted.
In the coming months, CVS/pharmacy will introduce support for additional tablet platforms and continue to enhance the CVS iPad app, offering additional new features that deepen the virtual shopping experience and offer informative and innovative ways for customers to interact with pharmacy services. For more information, visit CVS.com/onthego.
About CVS/pharmacy
CVS/pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS), is America's leading retail pharmacy with more than 7,400 CVS/pharmacy and Longs Drug stores. CVS/pharmacy is reinventing pharmacy to help people on their path to better health by providing the most accessible and personalized expertise, both in its stores and online at CVS.com. General information about CVS/pharmacy and CVS Caremark is available at http://info.cvscaremark.com.
Press Contact: Mike DeAngelis
CVS/pharmacy
T: 401.770.2645
E: Michael.DeAngelis@cvscaremark.com
Danielle Marcus
CVS/pharmacy
T: 401.770.4745
E: Danielle.Marcus@cvscaremark.com
SOURCE CVS/pharmacy
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