ARTICLE: We shopped at a Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid to see which was the best drugstore, and there was a clear winner
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The article was based on shopping in one town and at just one store from each chain, clearly not enough of a sample to make any judgment other than which of the 3 stores is better that the other two in that town. For example, here we had 5, now 4 since RiteAid closed it’s doors last Thursday. And there are a couple independent drug stores as well. First, RiteAid was in a small store in a strip mall that is at least 60 years old, no room for expansion although it’s been upgraded several times as much as could be done with the comparatively small space and outdated building. However, the clerks, managers and pharmacy people were always friendly, helpful and caring. The store was always well stocked, neat and clean. Moving on to CVS, one store is on a corner in the heart of town, probably 30 to 40 year old individual building, no expansion ability, could use updating but doesn’t have much potential for growth. It is neat, clean, adequate but limited space for stock, and has friendly, helpful, caring people. The other CVS is around 7 or 8 years old, much larger, carries a lot more than the other location, is modern, uncluttered, nice people. The Walgreens across from the downtown CVS is about 8 to 10 years old, decent amount of space, adequate stock, neat, clean, well lighted, friendly people. The other Walgreens is very new, about 2 years old, big store, bright lighting, wider variety of stock, neat, clean, helpful friendly people. Sooooo where did we choose to shop? RiteAid for the pharmacy because it’ was convenient and very warm-friendly long-term people who knew us and we knew them. CVS for the deals. Walgreens once in a while if there was a hot deal. That article didn’t take into account the “human” factor. LOL
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Does Walgreen accept CC for buying GC?
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@zennuts it’s YMMV. there are stores that says cash only for GCs while other stores allow CCs. I’ve noticed lately, the registers have been hard coded to allow only one $500 Vanilla per transaction which the manager cannot override; work around is asking if they’ll allow a second transaction where most acquiesce. I’ve completed my Chase Freedoms 5% for this quarter buying OVs.
