Posted on 06/29/2023 11:09:36 AM PDT by Angelino97
Affirmative action hire...
Probably so ... !
That is why they cant compete with GNC for nutritional supplements and information,
and compete with Whole Foods for nutritional foods.
Nutrition and Economy used to be taught in the schools, generally in the Home Economics classes,
which explains why educational system is not meeting the population needs, and is irrelevant to an adequate education.
walgreens was living on borrowed time anyway: they GROSSLY overbuilt the number of stores, and their retail prices are absolutely insane ... no one in their right mind buys ANYTHING at walgreens if they can conveniently find it at walmart, costco, sams club, etc.
btw, i’m STILL POed at walgreens for charging me $12.75 for a single pill at their pharmacy many year ago, a generic pill that probably cost them one cent ... their explanation was that $12.75 was their minimum charge for ALL prescriptions because of “overhead” ... i haven’t been back since ...
walgreens overbuilt in my little town too ... the first one to close was converted to a Harbor Freight whose parking lot is almost always full ...
“Around Tennessee, it feels as if there are 150 Walgreens in the same city sometime”
yeah, like one on every block ...
Osco used to be one of my favorite stores ... of course, that was nearly a half century ago ...
O-BodyMortgage-Un-Care stores.
replying to you since #1 got deleted.
maybe they hired extra people who fit the appropriate boxes for diversity, and now that they need to cut staff they don’t want to appear racist so they will just close whole stores instead of letting go the last few hired?
YOU TAKES UM TO COURT!!!
sure if you don’t mind supporting owner/upper ranks of amazon that don’t really like America and it’s foundation but love the folks who easily hand over their money to amazon.
The one near me was open 24 hours before COVID. I think it’s 16x7 for the store, and for the pharmacy 16x5 M-F and 8x2 Sat-Sun.
CEO of CVS lying to Ted Cruz (who’s being the good guy) about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZEGjkamTIE
I don’t know any independent pharmacies around me (including the one where I had my first job long ago) that were “bought out” by the chains. More like “driven out” 20-30 years ago.
If they were smart, they quit while they were still ahead rather than ride the slide down to ruin.
I wonder if part of the problem with these chain pharmacies is that they’ve expanded so much over time (in terms of what they stock besides prescriptions) that they have been targeting the “wrong” market?
Sort of like somebody’s description of what led to the abrupt fall of the Bennigan’s restaurant chain...that they had imperceptibly drifted over time from a bar that served food to a family restaurant that served alcohol, and those were two completely different markets.
It happened repeatedly here. For example, all the retail pharmacies within the hospital buildings (not the hospital pharmacies for in-patients).
Points taken. Thanks
“...changing buying habits of our customers”
“Five finger discounts” are included in “changed ‘buying’ habits.”
If the problem is mostly overhiring to meet a bigger demand then laying off last hireds can help. But based on comments and my own observations it primarily seems to be overbuilding and the Malling of America. Also, if you want to compete with WalMart and Amazon you can’t be paying your top execs over $20 million like they do and charge more than they do for products. Also, if you have overbuilt, then closing stores makes sense too.
I thought I recognized that CEO's name:
People are calling Sam's Club CEO 'racist' after she gave an interview about diversity
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