Big new Walgreen store being built here -seems a little weird to me because

it is right smack across the street, like 300 feet, from a WalMart Supercenter. They tore down a furniture store
recently and I only found out today what's being built. It seems like a -very- odd location for a Walgreens to me!
(There is another "drug store"/pharmacy/variety locally owned just a block away on the other side of the new
construction that has managed to survive Wally World for years - don't ask me how)

I can't figure it out.

In my parents town they built a Super K right next to the Wallmart. Guess how that did.

Is that Wal-Mart 24/7?

:shrug:

Wallgreens would be faster and probably have a higher IQ. We used MallWart for a brief time, for financial reasons. Their pharmacy service was abysmal, so as soon as we could we moved to a different pharmacy.

Walgreens also just put up a new store last year very close to a 24 hour Walmart Supercenter near my home. I and many of my neighbors never go to the Walmart though, prefer Walgreens as it is much quicker service, no lines and more personal attention plus you can find a parking space much closer to the door.

a corner "Yup another Walgreens". We also have a Wal-mart but it's a regular sized one. BTW the Walgreens closet to my house is directly across the the street from a Rite Aid.

They tend to build near other established merchants. The one closest to me is also near a WM Supercenter and a Super Target, and most of the others are near other places like CVS and grocery stores. When I lived in Chicago a few years ago, you couldn't go a mile in some areas without seeing at least 2 Walgreens stores.

all on the same 2 blocks of land. Then within .5-2 miles having 2 walgreens, a jewel/osco, kmart & a market fresh grocery store. All of those places have pharmacies in them.

Please note I do not live in a heavily populated area. I think our town is still under 50K, and a suburb of a suburb of Chicago (xurb - or also known as the far west burbs).

across the street from each other, all the time

You'll find a Walgreens across the street from a CVS everywhere you go. It's ridiculous.

hardly a metropolis like OKC. :-)

getting ready for us soon to be decrepit baby boomer's needing all kinds of pharmas just to keep us breathing. x(

At the corner of Skibo and McPherson Church Roads, there is a Wal-Mart on one side of McPherson Church and a Walgreens on the other side of it.

In Hope Mills (the "entering Hope Mills" and "leaving Fayetteville" signs are on the same post) there is a Walgreens, a Rite Aid and a Wal-Mart within a quarter-mile of each other.

All of them are doing very well. The Walgreens on Skibo does exceptionally well because it's got a 24-hour dispensing counter that Wal-Mart doesn't.

Look for a Khols/Borders/Target/Applebees in you near future.

I hate monster malls, also, and the counterculture movement around here has been to build these fake little "town centers." Not much of an improvement considering it's trying to emulate-in a canned fashion-what the mall and suburban strip shopping killed in the first place.

I don't get it either.

Redstone

but Walgreen's? Maybe. I know I will, simply because they're the closest game in town, and if I'm not well, I'm not going any farther than I have to. I'm in a small town, population 2,800 in Northwestern NJ.

As far as the proliferation of pharmacies in general, that's just another function of the aging Boomer population. There's a Walgreen's a half a mile from my house; one mile away, a Drug Fair; half a mile away, a Shop-Rite with a Pharmacy. Next town over, a much larger town than mine, has a CVS within a short walk of a Rite-Aid, and the A&P a 30-second stroll from the Rite-Aid has its own pharmacy as well.

In many towns in southern NJ, where there are a large number of retirement communities, it's not unusual to find 3-4 pharmacy/convenience stores within a five-block perimeter. Put your stores where the people are; there's NO lack of business for pharmacies, so long as they're not "Mom & Pop" ones. Those are being driven out of business by mail-order pharmacies and chains.

a couple of years ago i had to pick up pain medicine for my husband at walgreens, it was around $80 for the uninsured person -- we did have insurance, i insisted they run it thru again and then i only had to pay the $10 co-pay but crap! $80! for an opiate type pain reliever that has been around FOREVER -- if you didn't have insurance, it was armed robbery for just a few pills!

a few weeks ago i had to pick up the same medicine at walmart, it was $4 and the same price to anyone, with or without insurance

his antibiotic was also $4

say what you like about walmart but i don't see how walgreens can compete in the pharmacy department, unless they only plan to sell specialized high end drugs rather than the generics on walmart's list


not shopping at walmart pharmacy is cutting off nose to spite face, walgreens is a corporation too and a greedy one

on edit -- after reading the whole thread, i guess there are more rich people on DU than i thought, i had no idea that people would pay so much over the cost of drugs just to avoid waiting in a line, here's a thought, have your doctor phone in the prescription to walmart, then you can avoid the line AND get the drug at a fair price, but i guess if you have money to throw away...
:shrug:

I have 2 cousins that are pharmacists at Walgreens. They both freely admit that Wals jacks up the price on *everything* from drugs to the other crap they sell (but especially the drugs) and they have advised all of us family members to shop elsewhere. they say they would never go to a Walgreens themselves. Nice, eh?

And good for me! We bought Walgreens stock about twelve years ago. :)
It's our best pick yet.

Literally. You could park in the Walgreens lot and also visit the CVS. It's fucking ridiculous. There is NO DIFFERENCE between the two except for the label on their store brands. And this isn't uncommon. Those places are sprouting up like mushrooms, and they BOTH SUCK.

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supercenters are too big and if you forget something you'll walk a marathon to go back to get it.

Walmart is a bad shopping experience.

There are many intersections where a Walgreens is across from a CVS. Another has four. One on each corner. Walgreens, CVS, Osco, Ekert? I was amazed when I first saw it. Now the Osco is out of business with the Ekert.

Our newest Walgreen's (replacing a Popeye's Chicken) in the area opened across the street from a Walmart AND a Giant and down the street from a Target. I'm talking nothing more than 1/8 mile away. And all of these are only perhaps 1/4 mi. south of a 24-hour Rite Aid AND a pharmacy/medical equipment center. The only other perspective I can paint is that they're all near to the regional hospital and a cluster of doctor's offices and rehab centers.

As for "surviving" Wally World, they're about the LAST place I would go to have a prescription filled, so maybe Walgreen's knows what it's doing.

Walgreens is always understaffed and in a hurry.

The worst one was when I was waiting at the counter for a scrip, and the woman behind the counter, several feet away and rooting in their stock, asked ME where the pills were.

:rofl: :rofl:

I said, "I don't work here; I don't know where they are." :wtf:

:shrug:

the street does...has for many years. :shrug:

A legal form of kick backs. If you follow the money, you'll find it is not quite an equal choice as to which store has your drugs on competitive terms.