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Two Boston CVS pharmacies remove self-checkout kiosks

Two pharmacies in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood will shut down their checkout kiosks in favor of manned registers.

November 30, 2015

Two Boston-based CVS pharmacies in the Jamaica Plain section of the city plan to close their checkout kiosks in favor of manned registers. This is a reversal of CVS's initiative to speed up the checkout process with self-service kiosks, according to a report by Jamaica Plain News.

The CVS locations are on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain. Several Boston locations have also removed their checkout kiosks. According to a report by Fortune, two CVS stores in west suburban Boston decided to remove the kiosks.

A CVS spokesperson denied that this was part of a corporate decision, but rather is a case-by-case basis. The spokesperson said that assisted self-check out kiosks would remain in some stores.