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Nov 12, 2012, 4:05 pm

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Originally Posted by philemer

Stopped at local Walgreens today & they just received the VR a couple days ago. Took one to the register & the screen said "...cash only..". I asked the lady to call a manager over & she said "no way around it...have to pay with cash". I'll try another Walgreens in a couple days & see if it's the same.

Wish we had CVS in Idaho. I may have to wait til January when I'm in Hawaii.

They have CVS in nearby WA.
I've been able to get around cash/debit only by buying other items with it at other stores in Canada.
(Sobeys comes to mind where I bought thousands of $$$ in itunes cards using GCs that I had got 10% off with a promotion for $25 worth of credit for $20 and turning around and selling at $19.)