My guess is that CVS is scaling back on MinuteClinic expansion because the business has been dilutive to CVS’s EPS. Once opened, the clinics are presumably making decent money, but the pre-opening costs that cannot be capitalized have been pinching EPS by a few pennies per quarter. Regards, Dew
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