--- title: Ellen First Lady Michelle Obama Shopping At CVS Watch Video description: Do not take Ellen shopping with you—unless you love box wine. canonical: https://time.com/4492895/ellen-michelle-obama-cvs-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-14T15:11:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:31.953Z og:title: Ellen Took Michelle Obama Shopping At CVS og:description: Do not take Ellen shopping with you og:url: https://time.com/4492895/ellen-michelle-obama-cvs-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ellen Took Michelle Obama Shopping At CVS twitter:description: Do not take Ellen shopping with you twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ellen DeGeneres Took Michelle Obama Shopping for Boxed Wine at CVS by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 14, 2016 3:11 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 14, 2016 3:11 PM UTC What do you do when you have the First Lady of the United States of America on your talk show? If you’re [Ellen DeGeneres](http://time.com/4487356/celine-dion-nelly-ellen-video/?iid=sr-link1), you take her shopping at CVS. Like many, many Americans before them, for a segment for _The Ellen DeGeneres Show,_ [Obama and DeGeneres ](http://time.com/4489849/bradley-cooper-commando-michelle-obama-ellen-degeneres/?iid=sr-link2)spent some quality time wandering the aisles of a local CVS, which DeGeneres claims stands for “cotton, vaseline, and stuff.” Obama pushed her shopping cart around the pharmacy, while DeGeneres did her best to serve as her tour guide through the store, including stops at a Coinstar machine, perusing the magazine aisle, and picking out Halloween candy. It was an exciting trip to the store as Obama tried to pick up some earbuds for her daughter, Sasha, a “Bernie Sanders” sighting, and discovering the wonders of wine in a box. In the end, though, the First Lady does not recommend DeGeneres as a shopping partner, saying: “You are really not a good person to shop with.” Watch the full clip below. Ellen First Lady Michelle Obama Shopping At CVS Watch Video ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4492895/ellen-michelle-obama-cvs-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4492895/ellen-michelle-obama-cvs-video/"},"headline":"Ellen DeGeneres Took Michelle Obama Shopping for Boxed Wine at CVS","datePublished":"2016-09-14T15:11:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:31.953Z","description":"Do not take Ellen shopping with you—unless you love box wine","url":"https://time.com/4492895/ellen-michelle-obama-cvs-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Michelle Obama","photography","CVS","Ellen Degeneres","Bernie Sanders","ellen","televisions"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4492895/ellen-michelle-obama-cvs-video/","name":"Ellen DeGeneres Took Michelle Obama Shopping for Boxed Wine at CVS"}}]}] ```