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davis_squareAccording to the Porter Square Neighborhood Association mailing list, Pier One will close and a Walgreen's will move into both Pier One's space and the vacant ex-Blockbuster Video above it.
(Is there anything at all you can buy at Walgreen's that you can't just as easily buy at the CVS across the street?)
(Is there anything at all you can buy at Walgreen's that you can't just as easily buy at the CVS across the street?)
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Date: 2012-02-17 03:55 am (UTC)It's not like Pier One is some locally-owned mom-n-pop store, anyway. It's just one chain replacing another.
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Date: 2012-02-17 03:56 am (UTC)This isn't like Whole Foods vs Trader Joe's where the merchandise mix is substantially different between the two chains.
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Date: 2012-02-17 04:39 am (UTC)I lived in Porter for 9 years...I'm pretty sad to hear this. Hopefully it'll be Walgreen's that fails and not CVS, because I like CVS about a thousand times better.
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Date: 2012-02-17 05:03 am (UTC)never actually seen them anywhere else but online and at Walgreens.
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Date: 2012-02-17 11:54 am (UTC)When I saw your headline I was actually sure you must be talking about the Jennifer Convertibles store, heh.
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Date: 2012-02-17 01:16 pm (UTC)(I try to never give walgreens money; they're among the worst at refusing to fill prescriptions)
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Date: 2012-02-17 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-17 03:05 pm (UTC)In other news, I wish Uno's was still there.
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Date: 2012-02-17 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-17 03:13 pm (UTC)Having lived in Porter for 10 years, I HATED that CVS. Rude and incompetent. I switched to using the Walgreens near my office, but that was inconvenient in other ways.
Having competition will hopefully improve service at CVS and now offers nearby residents a convenient alternative.
Even for people/grandmothers who actually like Pier1, is that really something you need right in the neighborhood?
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Date: 2012-02-17 03:43 pm (UTC)I have mixed feelings about the loss of Pier One and its Chinese-made bric-a-brac. I have appreciated having a local place to buy throw pillows, curtains, candles, and the like, although always with a twinge of guilt.
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Date: 2012-02-17 03:40 pm (UTC)I'm not crazy about the idea of 2 drugstores across from each other but obviously Walgreens thinks it can make a go of it. In some (larger) urban areas, competing drugstores are often situated close together and seem to thrive, which amazes me. Bringing it back to Davis, I was surprised that when CVS opened there, Rite-Aid survived.
I wish something more unique to the Porter neighborhood would move into that spot, but as someone else mentioned, it's likely the high rent filters out all but big companies as candidates.
(I'm still mourning the departure of Farmer's Bounty in Davis.)
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Date: 2012-02-17 03:49 pm (UTC)Surely a mall that's been sitting empty all this time has been getting tax-breaks to cover their loss of income. Surely it's a blight to the city to have some much more high-rent retail space that can't be filled by anything other than banks and drug stores. Buy the property back to the city (cost minus all tax breaks and incentives given to the flailing mall-building corporation), and do something actually for the community there.
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Date: 2012-02-17 04:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-02-17 07:28 pm (UTC)If there's another option nearby, they're less likely to do this. And if they do, you can just go to the competitor instead.
I really like places like Skenderian Apothecary in Cambridge. They have multiple competent pharmacists on duty at once, and generally fill prescriptions in under 5 minutes.
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Date: 2012-02-17 07:56 pm (UTC)Then again, I didn't need a Pier 1, either.
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