CVS says it will close NINE HUNDRED stores by the end of 2024 - 10% of all its shops - as it moves t

[Smokin Joe]

So where are people who live in the inner cities going to shop??  They'll come into the suburbs and once stores are closed in the suburbs they will venture into the country and into the Mom & Pop stores.

Mom and Pops don't have corporate policy against stopping looters or being armed.

[DB]

The cities will build light rail to get the inner city to the outer city for "undocumented shopping sprees" spreading the wealth...

[berdie]

We will be forced to rely on Wally World. Or in my case the local grocery store that has a pharmacy...run by Walgreens.

The only competition in my town was a Mom/Pop drug store that had been in business since the late 1800's. They went out of business late last year.

I'm glad I can get my meds thru the mail...although the USPS isn't real reliable.

[Kamaji]

As bad as things are getting in the inner cities, don’t expect a change in any voting patterns.

I think we need to have a conversation, not only about race, but of culture and what kind of culture the inner city black race seems to tenaciously embrace

The only thing that’s going to turn around these inner cities is a change in the culture

[GtHawk]

The other thing to remark is that CVS bought into Target clinics - so they expanded to the various Targets.  Too quick expansion?

I don’t know about anywhere else but here the ones in Target are crappy and carry very little variety on the shelves. Also in SoCal CVS has been shuttering locations for years, sometimes very large ones that were only two or three years old.