Walmart will become the default provider yet again for those who cannot afford Walgreens.

diabetic.

His insulin cost 24.99 at walmart. Check prices at
walgreens, rite-aid and meijers and all prices for the exact same insulin cost a minimum of $109 with rite-aid coming in the highest at $139.

Same with his syringes. 12.99 a box of 100 versus 30.00 at meijer.

Crazy, indeed.

Pep Boys

Rite Aid

Somebody's delusional

There is always Walmart in the mix too. However, in my city, a new Walgreens gets built and the next thing I know something is getting torn down across the street to build a CVS. Waiting until one of them buys the other.

Peace

Rite Aid has always felt like the cheaper feeling place. We've got all three in town plus Walmart and Target. Rite Aid is almost perpetually empty outside of the elder folks who have been going there for decades.

is a Zombie retailer from the 1970s that almost went under financially
and has had chronic red ink in the past.

In the 1980s X-rated videos were rented in some Rite Aids.

http://articles.mcall.com/1985-09-08/news/2482200_1_rite-aid-video-stores-sexually-explicit-film

In the Great Recession it was infused with Wall Street Financing.

Banks and drug stores must make up 30% of retail buildings.

Part of the reason they went down is that they would take over local chains and botch the job. For example, take the gulf coast Katz and bestoff chain, aka "K & B" based in New Orleans got so sick of Rite Aid that they purposefully avoided them, to the point where there are almost no Rite Aids in NOLA.

Rite Aid bought over the years

Rea & Derrick
Thrift Drug
Eckerd

My local independent alt pharmacy affiliated with Cardinal Health went out of business and
they referred us to Rite Aid which made no sense as the alt products disappeared.

Might have been a local one store case.

so not only did they dig themselves into a hole with takeovers, man y times, they botched the takeover so bad that people fleed from the Rite Aid brand. My bay area eckerds is another fine example, where people got ticked because they monkeyed aroun d with everything.

there are 3 Rite Aids and a brand new Walgreens just about completed

1 of the Rite Aids is new, the others old retail low rental space no doubt

Walgreens builds the ugliest buildings. At least CVS tries to look neighborhood friendly

Town also has pharms at Walmart, Kmart, Target, CVS

If you include the population in the surrounding 10 mile area, that's
a pharmacy for every 3,000 people.

Something's going to close at some point.

dark side. Not appealing.

I'd swear the local Rite Aid has a cashier in the front and the Pharmacy in the rear...

And that it!

One person on the registers and a pharmacy tech filling bottles in the back.

with their bad service.

Sorry, couldn't help myself on that one.

Frankly they give better service. If the Rite Aid stores are just shuttered, especially in smaller communities, then there's room for a new entrant into the local market.

" Large companies that provide health benefits have also tightened their spending. ... Hospitals, drug distributors, health insurers and companies that manage pharmacy benefits all say that they need to be bigger in order to compete in this new landscape. "


Reminds me of this when I read this

but I've never tried it. If it were priced cheap, I would, but it's not.

Big Flats 1901 Lager Beer 12 oz. Cans, 6.0 pack

6.0 pack? You'd think that beer would be sold in integer quantities.

Let's check the reviews: Big Flats 1901

the nice bread products, all of them are aweful

I discovered a sale with an additional coupon in the October Walgreens coupon book that brought down the price to $1 per jar. I bought out the entire store supply, carrying 12 jars home on a bicycle. When I got home, I called a friend and told him about it. He went over to his nearby Walgreens and bought out their entire supply, 13 jars.

The only problem is that I have to keep the jars out of view. If I see one that is not yet empty, I can't keep myself from reaching in and grabbing a handful.

And then another.

And then another.

buy a Craig DVD player or Android tablet?

Oh, right: CVS.

Never mind.