May 12, 2008 One stop career training for CVS Caremark Play video

(Peter Howe, NECN) - At the Jewish Vocational Service in Boston, a non-sectarian job-training center, there are lots of classrooms. The real CVS store is just one of the rooms. It is a full CVS store compressed into about 1,000 square feet.

CVS Caremark recently opened the mock store at the JVS one-stop career-training center.
It is the first in New England and a true-to-life training lab for working cash registers, restocking shelves, running the photo lab or working in the pharmacy. It is stocked with $20,000 worth of real inventory.

All of the products are real, although you can't buy anything because it is all for training purposes.

JVS runs several programs training people for jobs at hotels, hospitals, and other businesses - over 14,000 trainees a year, people who speak 40 languages.

About 100 job trainees come here each week because it is more fun than a typical classroom.

CVS executives love getting employees at dozens of stores all trained in a similar, consistent way.