Expired CVS item Side Hustle goes viral on TikTok

As you grew up laying in bed staring at the ceiling and daydreaming about all the wonderful things you will do when you finally grow up, you probably played out a ton of different scenarios in your head about what you would be like for his livelihood enough.

Maybe you went through a phase where you dreamed of being a successful musician who bangs his heart out on stage, complete with cool backing dancers and an insane light/fireworks show.

Or maybe you thought about becoming an astronaut and befriending an alien that you would somehow smuggle home, who would join your family and get into a series of misadventures. Whatever your dream job, it probably wasn’t about reporting to a store manager that some of their items were about to expire.

But when you’re an adult, there are bills to pay, and apparently CVS has a policy that people who notify employees about products that are past their due date snag them $3 coupons per item. Depending on the number of items they buy per week, or if they have a habit of visiting CVS regularly, they could use this method to cover a reasonable amount of their pharmacy shopping expenses.

At least according to TikToker @heygranty, who shared a photo of a customer bringing cartons of milk by the ton to the front counter along with packets of cookies and bags of chips.

He says on the now-viral TikTok, “No, this isn’t someone who really likes milk and cookies, this is someone who’s about to make a lot of money.

The TikToker then elaborates on what this side business entails: “As a result of a lawsuit, CVS is now offering three dollar coupons to customers who find expired items and bring them to checkout. There is no upper limit, there is no limit.”

The TikToker continued, “If you find expired milk, soda, chocolate, groceries, anything and everything and bring it to the checkout, they have to give you a $3 coupon, and this is all stemming from a lawsuit that CVS previously dealt with.” was carrying expired things on their shelves.”

He then asks his followers, “So who’s done this before? will you do it now Give it a try, let me know how it goes.”

As @heygranty says, there have been multiple mentions of the CVS expired food lawsuit in the media. CBS News reported on the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s 2016 $450,000 settlement with the pharmacy chain. The New York Legal Examiner said there were other places, like stores in North Carolina, that also had expired groceries on their shelves; that was in 2019.

But it appears the brand has been called out for keeping items on its shelves past the due date: the Attorney General’s Office in Connecticut also issued a press release on November 30, 2009, which also claimed the brand had been sued Related Incident: “Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced today that he is suing CVS Pharmacy, Inc. for allegedly selling expired food, beverage and over-the-counter medications at 20 or more of its Connecticut stores.”

As for TikToker’s claim that CVS is giving out $3 coupons per expired item brought to each store’s counter, it appears there is some truth to what it says. Coupons in the news reported back in 2016 that there were multiple instances where the chain issued store credits to customers who found expired items in its stores.

And in 2009, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. also reported that customers were also entitled to coupons for the expired items. So it seems like TikTok is legit, or at least there are times when CVS is fined for selling expired goods and then they have to pay it back to customers with coupons.