Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Drugstores abound in NYC and Northern NJ as well. Since the '90s in NYC we've had a Duane Reade on every block. They were recently bought out by Walgreens for $1B.
Does anyone else find it strange that the grocery stores have drugstores within them and now the drugstores have grocery stores within them???
Is everyone taking more drugs???
Vicki
Oh, LOL, Vicki!
One of the store managers for CVS says the trend with the big drugstores these days is to be sort of a 'quick shop, one stop' with the pharmacy. I guess the grocers decided if the pharmacies could compete by selling groceries, they could compete with drugstores of their own.
It does seem like we take an awful lot of drugs, though, doesn't it?
It baffles me, too, not that they are on the corners opposite one another, but that it's every corner. Two intersections down from one CVS will be another, or a Walgreen's, or a Rite-Aid, and like Mike Jaquish points out, once one chain is in place, the others follow.
Where I am, I can easily have my pick from three different CVS drugstores, each less than about 3 miles from my house in any of three different directions. This doesn't take into account, the pharmacies available in the 3 different Harris Teeter stores, the two Walgreen's, or the Rite-Aid. I can also have something compounded within that three mile radius. Drives me nuts -- mostly because the stores are kinda u-g-l-y. Wouldn't want to hurt their feelings, BUT. . .
Surely you also forgot the many Target, Walmart, Kmart, Food lions, Kroger etc etc. Not to mention they often give out coupons to get $25 gift cards for moving your prescription to their store (usually the big retailers).
I think within a mile of my house I have CVS, Rite aid, Kerr, HT, 2 Food lion, Kroger, and probably leaving some out and I am not even in a dense area.
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