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Big box drug stores are dinosaurs, and eventually their leases will expire or they'll exit bankruptcy. How is this different from any other category of real est

Big box drug stores are dinosaurs, and eventually their leases will expire or they'll exit bankruptcy. How is this different from any other category of real estate that's gone out of favor? You can get practically everything by mail now. On Amazon you can "subscribe" to your regular consumables, so they send you some regularly and you don't have to go to Rite-Aid for it.

add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
I prefer going out into the world in person to ecommerce. What's with all the main character syndrome where people declare their subjective preference as universal?
- kylebenzle 2y ago
  > What's with all the main character syndrome where people declare their subjective preference as universal? It does indeed seem America has been overrun by narssasisits.
  - AlbertCory 2y ago
    > America has been overrun by narssasisits and people who can't spell "narcissist"
  - AlbertCory 2y ago
    Look up "projection." Narcissism is characterized by, among other symptoms, thinking everything is about you. The OP was not about you.
- AlbertCory 2y ago
  > main character syndrome where people declare their subjective preference as universal So you insist that "it's just me" be added to every declaration of preference? I would have thought that was understood.
pclmulqdq 2y ago
In NYC, these drug stores also treat all of their customers like criminals. Everything non-perishable that is worth more than $5 is locked in a cabinet that you need an employee's help to open. The hours had been restricted to mostly operating during daylight. It used to be nice to go down to your local Duane Reade 24 hours a day and get anything you needed, often for only a small premium on the Amazon price. It's a different story now. Amazon loses you availability of access, and while it's nice to get stuff by mail, you can't get stuff by mail right now. That availability is going away.
- Scoundreller 2y ago
  Once Amazon gets into cool/cold chain, it’s game over for grocery stores too.
  - digging 2y ago
    Well, they already bought Whole Foods. Which probably showed them the complexity of a grocery store; it's not just about supporting refrigerated shipments.
  - knowaveragejoe 2y ago
    ...you mean Whole Foods?
    - Scoundreller 2y ago
      Whole Paycheque Foods? I do buy more and more shelf-stable “grocery” type items off Amazon every year.
      - dml2135 2y ago
        > Whole Paycheque Foods? Tell me you don't shop at Whole Foods without telling me you don't shop at Whole Foods. Whole Foods is actually cheaper than many (most?) grocery stores for staple items. Sure, the grass fed organic beef is expensive, but stuff like rice, pasta, ketchup, snacks, hell even a lot of produce, is way cheaper than other grocery stores. At least in an urban environment like NYC.
petesergeant 2y ago
> Big box drug stores are dinosaurs One of the few categories of store I still visit in person. Often it's stuff I want immediately, sometimes I wanna hold and look at packages, sometimes it's prescriptions and it's easier to just pick those up. I used to live in Dubai, which is the "instant app delivery" capital of the universe, in my experience -- nowhere else I've been comes close, including SE Asian capitals -- I even got my annual flu jab from a nurse I ordered online from an Everything App and had it during a Zoom call. Anyway, the one type of retail that remains absolutely ubiquitous there? Drug stores, admittedly ones that you can also just WhatsApp and will deliver to you.
- Scoundreller 2y ago
  Middle East is huge on pharmacy. Long history there and tons of graduates (but a relatively young population).
  - maeil 2y ago
    What's the (modern) history?
    - Scoundreller 2y ago
      A lotta graduates for the population and more abilities (e.g. pharmacy vaccinations have long been a thing and lighter regulation leading to dispensing without prescription (legal or not)): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3745069/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3745069/ https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/health/survey-finds-abu-dhabi-pharmacies-unlawfully-selling-prescription-only-medicine-1.245219 https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/health/survey-finds-abu-... https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/retail-pharmacy-practice-differences-in-iran https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/retail-pharmacy-practice-... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305425201_Antibiotic_dispensing_without_prescription_in_Jordanian_community_pharmacies_A_pharmacist's_perspective https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305425201_Antibioti... > Self- medicated ABs [antibiotics] is an issue in many countries especially among middle income people regardless of the variation of regulation, guidelines, culture or region. 60% of children patients in Yemen received ABs without prescription12 and 56% of population in Abu Dhabi, UAE according to Abasaeed et. al.7. > In Jordan two studies showed a close estimation for dispensing ABs without prescription among the Jordanian population. Here, Yousef and co-workers estimated the percentage to be around 42.5% of the population10 while Bakri and co-workers estimated the percentage around 46%
triceratops 2y ago
> On Amazon you can "subscribe" to your regular consumables, so they send you some regularly and you don't have to go to Rite-Aid for it. I will never trust Amazon with food or medicine.
- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  I strongly agree with this, but in a pinch, have been super helpful helping folks get Plan B when it absolutely must be delivered to an Amazon locker tomorrow (and a barcode/locker code provided to someone in need) hundreds or thousands of miles away. Their last mile game is solid, but the supply chain security and provenance leaves much to be desired.
- radicality 2y ago
  Would you trust Amazon Fresh for grocery delivery? What about shopping physically in WholeFoods? FWIW, I also don’t trust the standard Amazon store with many things, but I still do use Amazon Fresh and find it fine.
  - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
    Amazon Fresh isn't (FBA) Amazon because they don't rely on outside sellers. Furthermore, when I ordered sliced cheese in an AF order, it arrived completely moldy... like olive drab colored completely. Amazon Fresh clearly doesn't respect cold chain or consumer safety at all.
- Finnucane 2y ago
  There's something Amazon can be trusted with?
  - hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
    Delivering unsafe fuse "assortments" that all blow at 40A and electrocution-risk USB chargers that lack transformer isolation.
  - quickthrowman 2y ago
HarHarVeryFunny 2y ago
Yeah, but what percentage of drug store purchases fall into that category? I'd guess not very much.
hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Food, OTC and prescription medications, and urgent personal product are best not fulfilled by Amazon, a corporation that promotes fake ratings, fake products, no-name brands, and dangerous products.
- deleted 2y ago
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- AlbertCory 2y ago
  However, if you search for the legit OTC drugs you buy (not the junk they're promoting), they have those.
redwall_hp 2y ago
Anytime I go to urgent care or the ER and don't get out until late, I can count on Walgreens being open 24 hours. Only some medications are a recurring prescription. Many are prescribed as a one off. I will never get medication or food from Amazon. I don't even trust them to not sell dangerous counterfeit electronics.

add-sub-mul-div 2y ago

I prefer going out into the world in person to ecommerce. What's with all the main character syndrome where people declare their subjective preference as universal?

kylebenzle 2y ago
> What's with all the main character syndrome where people declare their subjective preference as universal? It does indeed seem America has been overrun by narssasisits.
- AlbertCory 2y ago
  > America has been overrun by narssasisits and people who can't spell "narcissist"
- AlbertCory 2y ago
  Look up "projection." Narcissism is characterized by, among other symptoms, thinking everything is about you. The OP was not about you.
AlbertCory 2y ago
> main character syndrome where people declare their subjective preference as universal So you insist that "it's just me" be added to every declaration of preference? I would have thought that was understood.

pclmulqdq 2y ago

In NYC, these drug stores also treat all of their customers like criminals. Everything non-perishable that is worth more than $5 is locked in a cabinet that you need an employee's help to open. The hours had been restricted to mostly operating during daylight. It used to be nice to go down to your local Duane Reade 24 hours a day and get anything you needed, often for only a small premium on the Amazon price. It's a different story now. Amazon loses you availability of access, and while it's nice to get stuff by mail, you can't get stuff by mail right now. That availability is going away.

Scoundreller 2y ago
Once Amazon gets into cool/cold chain, it’s game over for grocery stores too.
- digging 2y ago
  Well, they already bought Whole Foods. Which probably showed them the complexity of a grocery store; it's not just about supporting refrigerated shipments.
- knowaveragejoe 2y ago
  ...you mean Whole Foods?
  - Scoundreller 2y ago
    Whole Paycheque Foods? I do buy more and more shelf-stable “grocery” type items off Amazon every year.
    - dml2135 2y ago
      > Whole Paycheque Foods? Tell me you don't shop at Whole Foods without telling me you don't shop at Whole Foods. Whole Foods is actually cheaper than many (most?) grocery stores for staple items. Sure, the grass fed organic beef is expensive, but stuff like rice, pasta, ketchup, snacks, hell even a lot of produce, is way cheaper than other grocery stores. At least in an urban environment like NYC.

petesergeant 2y ago

> Big box drug stores are dinosaurs One of the few categories of store I still visit in person. Often it's stuff I want immediately, sometimes I wanna hold and look at packages, sometimes it's prescriptions and it's easier to just pick those up. I used to live in Dubai, which is the "instant app delivery" capital of the universe, in my experience -- nowhere else I've been comes close, including SE Asian capitals -- I even got my annual flu jab from a nurse I ordered online from an Everything App and had it during a Zoom call. Anyway, the one type of retail that remains absolutely ubiquitous there? Drug stores, admittedly ones that you can also just WhatsApp and will deliver to you.

Scoundreller 2y ago
Middle East is huge on pharmacy. Long history there and tons of graduates (but a relatively young population).
- maeil 2y ago
  What's the (modern) history?
  - Scoundreller 2y ago
    A lotta graduates for the population and more abilities (e.g. pharmacy vaccinations have long been a thing and lighter regulation leading to dispensing without prescription (legal or not)): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3745069/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3745069/ https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/health/survey-finds-abu-dhabi-pharmacies-unlawfully-selling-prescription-only-medicine-1.245219 https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/health/survey-finds-abu-... https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/retail-pharmacy-practice-differences-in-iran https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/retail-pharmacy-practice-... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305425201_Antibiotic_dispensing_without_prescription_in_Jordanian_community_pharmacies_A_pharmacist's_perspective https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305425201_Antibioti... > Self- medicated ABs [antibiotics] is an issue in many countries especially among middle income people regardless of the variation of regulation, guidelines, culture or region. 60% of children patients in Yemen received ABs without prescription12 and 56% of population in Abu Dhabi, UAE according to Abasaeed et. al.7. > In Jordan two studies showed a close estimation for dispensing ABs without prescription among the Jordanian population. Here, Yousef and co-workers estimated the percentage to be around 42.5% of the population10 while Bakri and co-workers estimated the percentage around 46%

triceratops 2y ago

> On Amazon you can "subscribe" to your regular consumables, so they send you some regularly and you don't have to go to Rite-Aid for it. I will never trust Amazon with food or medicine.

toomuchtodo 2y ago
I strongly agree with this, but in a pinch, have been super helpful helping folks get Plan B when it absolutely must be delivered to an Amazon locker tomorrow (and a barcode/locker code provided to someone in need) hundreds or thousands of miles away. Their last mile game is solid, but the supply chain security and provenance leaves much to be desired.
radicality 2y ago
Would you trust Amazon Fresh for grocery delivery? What about shopping physically in WholeFoods? FWIW, I also don’t trust the standard Amazon store with many things, but I still do use Amazon Fresh and find it fine.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
  Amazon Fresh isn't (FBA) Amazon because they don't rely on outside sellers. Furthermore, when I ordered sliced cheese in an AF order, it arrived completely moldy... like olive drab colored completely. Amazon Fresh clearly doesn't respect cold chain or consumer safety at all.
Finnucane 2y ago
There's something Amazon can be trusted with?
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
  Delivering unsafe fuse "assortments" that all blow at 40A and electrocution-risk USB chargers that lack transformer isolation.
- quickthrowman 2y ago

HarHarVeryFunny 2y ago

Yeah, but what percentage of drug store purchases fall into that category? I'd guess not very much.

hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago

Food, OTC and prescription medications, and urgent personal product are best not fulfilled by Amazon, a corporation that promotes fake ratings, fake products, no-name brands, and dangerous products.

deleted 2y ago
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AlbertCory 2y ago
However, if you search for the legit OTC drugs you buy (not the junk they're promoting), they have those.

redwall_hp 2y ago

Anytime I go to urgent care or the ER and don't get out until late, I can count on Walgreens being open 24 hours. Only some medications are a recurring prescription. Many are prescribed as a one off. I will never get medication or food from Amazon. I don't even trust them to not sell dangerous counterfeit electronics.