XPost: alt.politics.usa, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
On 7/13/25 10:46 PM, David LaRue wrote:
c186282 <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-14889813/store-
closures-increase-2025-cvs-walgreens-macys.html
CVS, Walgreens, Macy's and dozens more bracing for '15,000
store closures' this year amid brutal retail culls
. . .
This is NOT good.
Don't care so much about the 'fashion' outlets, but
the PHARMACIES are kinda critical.
My pharmacist knows my face, my history, my needs,
my rep as an Intelligent Person. NO replacing that.
"Online" MAY be slightly cheaper - but SO much
is lost. Kinda TOO much where it really counts.
Ok, Ok ... I do understand SOME of this, esp with
the pharma chains. If CVS put in a store, Walgreens
just HAD to put one directly across the road. The
result was Not Enough Business for either. We've
seen this with bank chains too. Knee-jerk biz
decisions/strategies don't always work out and
are expensive.
Cheaper cost and cheaper value is a definite NO NO. Many years ago my bank of choice was acquired several times and is now under a popular and well meaning cheap bank. The people that had known me are replaced by people
that don't and trust only that a correct code is entered on a keypad. When the people go and/or no longer interact with me, of what value is this
place as a service?
Pharmacies, restraunts, park, and so on are dying in the name of corporate greed combined with not providing the quality of service that the original did.
Perhaps part of the problem are those that use the cheaper services and
don't know what they have missed. When they find a good place they are so surprized.
I still value people doing work regardless of the task. They make using
the service worth using.
I would like to think that our creator would agree with this sentiment.
Why else would we have been created instead of our mostly-useless replacements.
Please be the reason for me to use and enjoy your establishment.
"Our Creator" ???
Pretty sure god(s) have nothing to do with it.
We're looking at ill-informed knee-jerk biz policies
here, that have proven to be money-losers.
Or does "god" own CVS stock ???
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