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Really it's the opposite. It's called a pharmacy, but in practice it is a convenience store first, and a pharmacy second. Often times the pharmacy is closed, has restricted hours, is understaffed, etc.
Not really. Walgreens and CVS are basically this, and many of them have 24 hour pharmacies.
At a Winco there was a box fan full of tools and parts parked at the end of the parking lot with a hundred or so carts in front of it. It was a repairman going through every cart, took several days as he made his way through all the carts at the store. Had never seen that before. Reminds me of summers spent working for the school district, replacing the glides on the feet of the metal tubed classroom chairs so the br…
I was trying to figure out what the box fan filled with parts was going to be for. Took way too long. Not enough caffeine yet today.
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this is an ad. of sorts. you are to be upset at grocers, for not paying for high quality wheels. (go on now, get upset at the right people. this was expensive, relatively.) cnn is news entertainment. > While the rubber wheels cost twice the price of the standard polyurethane ones, Diaz said P&H Casters’ natural rubber wheels can last for about a decade, barring mistreatment from customers. In a busier store environme…
I'm more pissed that supermarkets removed baskets so you HAVE to push around a behemoth that squeals and drags to the right
People learned what broke (front wheel that were slammed into things) and redesigned/reinforced appropriately.
Interesting, I didn't realize the coin locks were only a European thing.
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Today I learned another reason that despite appearances Baltimore is not a "major metropolitan area". I'm not being sarcastic, it really doesn't have the economy of one. But I also wonder if it's just the very largest cities that have easy 24 hour pharmacy access.
> But I also wonder if it's just the very largest cities that have easy 24 hour pharmacy access. I live near a city with population of about 50k. It has a 24 hour Walgreens.
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Not familiar with Rossman but with german DM (drogerie markt) & Muller being well represented in my country (and I presumed other ones in Europe) for over a decade or more, I thought this concept had already been established in all of Europe.
In the US, a drug store is a DM with a pharmacy in the back. There are way fewer independent pharmacies in the US nowadays as 'drug stores' have taken over.
> Grocery store carts are more likely to have carts with wonky wheels than ... drugstores Do countries other than the US have shopping carts in their "drug stores"?
I live in the US and haven’t ever seen a shopping cart in a drug store… maybe that’s why they stay so nice :)
>To combat this, grocery retailers in Europe, such as Aldi, Tesco and Lidl, have coin locks Where I lived, decades ago one store tried this. They ended up folding because no one wanted to deal with inserting coins, why: 1. What if you had no coins ? Most people in the US dump all coins in a big jar when the get home. I would guess back then, about 30% of the people never carried coins, so the chain instantly lost som…
I mean Aldi stores across the US have this system and they seem to be expanding not folding, I'm not sure you can pin this store issues to that specific point. Plus once it's a generalized system and all carts require coins, it's not like you have the choice anymore.