> No. CVS and Walmart are massive chains, with thousands of pharmacists and entire teams dedicated to store layout.
Personally I hate that this line of reasoning has been brought up because I think it's a bad argument based on reality. In the real world, it's true that big companies spend thousands of hours putting together rules and guidelines from experts. But then their fancy policies and guidelines are passed down the chain through less and less trained people until the ultimate task arrives in the hands of perhaps a minimum wage high-school kid with maybe 30 seconds of training.
A real solution should be foolproof and not rely on proper placement through a game of telephone. If that's the system that you're arguing for, IMO it's a very bad one that guarantees human error.
> But then their fancy policies and guidelines are passed down the chain through less and less trained people until the ultimate task arrives in the hands of perhaps a minimum wage high-school kid with maybe 30 seconds of training.
Nobody (either in this thread or in the case) is attempting to sue minimum wage high school kids for placing homeopathic products on the wrong shelf.
The claim (which is attested by both the case and independent anecdotes in this thread) is that, on a corporate level, both CVS and Walmart have made it their official policy to put homeopathic products in the same aisles and shelves as actual medicine. That kind of corporate policy clearly has made its way through the game of telephone.
In other words: I don't have an opinion in this context on the "right" solution. I only know that the current policy has successfully placed fake medicine on real shelves, and that the lawsuit we're discussing identifies the appropriate defendants (the corporate entities themselves, not a pimply 17 year old).
Personally I hate that this line of reasoning has been brought up because I think it's a bad argument based on reality. In the real world, it's true that big companies spend thousands of hours putting together rules and guidelines from experts. But then their fancy policies and guidelines are passed down the chain through less and less trained people until the ultimate task arrives in the hands of perhaps a minimum wage high-school kid with maybe 30 seconds of training.
A real solution should be foolproof and not rely on proper placement through a game of telephone. If that's the system that you're arguing for, IMO it's a very bad one that guarantees human error.