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Stanley P. Goldstein, who in the early 1960s helped start a retail chain named Consumer Value Stores, which, after shortening its name to CVS — because, he said, fewer letters meant cheaper...
Stanley P. Goldstein (June 5, 1934 – May 21, 2024) was an American businessman. Life and career. Goldstein was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1955. [3] . He served in the United States Army. [4]
Stanley Goldstein, a kid from Woonsocket who grew up humbly and founded a tiny company called Consumer Value Stores that grew into the gigantic CVS Health corporation, sadly left us Tuesday...
Stanley Goldstein, who helped turn a single store of health and beauty items — with a bag-your-own-purchases option to save a few cents — into the CVS retail and health-care empire whose annual...
The first Consumer Value Store (CVS), selling health and beauty products, was founded in 1963, in Lowell, Massachusetts, by brothers Stanley and Sidney Goldstein and Ralph Hoagland. By 1964, CVS had 17 stores that sold primarily beauty products.
WOONSOCKET – Stanley P. Goldstein, co-founder of Consumer Value Stores, which became the national drug store powerhouse now known as CVS Health Corp., died Tuesday, the company announced. He was 89.
The main idea of success in business, Goldstein thought, was to be aware at all times what consumers wanted and to give them value in the process. By the time he retired from the board of CVS in 2006, it was the largest drugstore chain in the U.S. with more than 4,000 outlets.