CVS.com Winner of Retail Systems 2000 Best In E-Commerce Systems Award.Business/Technology Editors, Health & Medical Writers WOONSOCKET, R.I.--(BW HealthWire)--April 25, 2000 Retail Systems Alert Group Selects CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. .com's Integrated "Clicks-and-Mortar" System As Best on the Internet CVS/pharmacy (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CVS), America's No. 1 drugstore chain, today announced that its online subsidiary, CVS.com (http://www.cvs.com), has received the "2000 Best in E-commerce Systems Award" for its ability to integrate its Web and "bricks-and-mortar" systems in order to provide customers with a complete online pharmacy  This article or section may deal primarily with the U.S. and may not present a worldwide view. solution. "This award is both a ringing endorsement of our `clicks-and-mortar' business model and the culmination of an exciting yearlong year·long adj. Lasting one year. Adj. 1. yearlong - lasting through a year; "attending yearlong courses" long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or integration process with CVS' 4,100 stores," said Dan Wong, director of e-business engineering for CVS.com. "We continue to believe that our way of doing business in the E-pharmacy space will be the sustainable model." The award was presented by the Retail Systems Alert Group, a provider of business intelligence services for the retail, e-commerce and supply chain industries at the Retail Systems 2000, America's leading retail and E-Commerce Show in Chicago this month. Each year the award is given to a retailer that has designed and implemented an industry-leading Web business that applies the latest technology to the fast-changing Internet paradigm. "CVS purchased Soma soma (sō`mə), psychotropic plant, the juice of which was sometimes drunk as part of the Vedic sacrifice (see Veda). Many hymns in the Rig-Veda are in praise of soma. .com in 1999 with the goal of providing the highest degree of convenience and quality service to our customers, both on and offline," said Bernie Segal, director of merchandising/store operations for CVS/pharmacy. "This award further validates our strategy." The Retail Systems 2000 Achievement Awards honor outstanding examples of systems and networking applications that have resulted in more effective customer service and improved business processes. They recognize individuals and companies whose efforts and company-wide dedication to information technology have raised standards throughout the industry. About CVS Corporation CVS/pharmacy is the nation's largest retail provider of prescriptions. The Company is the No. 1 drugstore chain in the U.S. with approximately 4,100 stores in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Midwest regions of the country. General information about CVS, including corporate background and press releases, is available at CVS' web site at http://www.cvs.com. About CVS.com CVS.com is the nation's first complete Internet pharmacy internet pharmacy Online A website that offers prescription drugs from the comfort of home Cons The IP or prescribing physician may not be qualified or licensed to prescribe drugs in all states. See Operation Cure-All, VIPPS. . Launched in January 1999 as soma.com, CVS.com provides 24-hour-a-day access to registered pharmacists This is a list of notable pharmacists.
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