A CVS is now being built right across the street from where a Walgreens is being built, right across the street from where the old Dedham Cineplex used to be. Who knew people in Dedham were so sick?
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Those stores expand so rapidly...
By mediaseth
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 11:44am
I'm within a short walk of a Walgreens, two independent pharmacies and within a very short drive of another Walgreens, two CVS's and a Rite-Aid(I think it's a Rite-Aid). I guess that's typical of a congested area, but a neighbor who lives in my building was saying he'd really like to see a CVS here because we don't really have a useful store like that. (laughs) I guess that's how they can keep expanding! It's like Dunkin' Donuts.. everywhere!
New opportunity for prosperity
By jeffcutler
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 11:46am
If someone were smart, they'd craigslist the service of transferring prescriptions from one to the other to the other and take 10% of the gift cards or cash back as their fee. They'd be rich!
CVS, Rite Aid (formerly
By ShadyMilkMan
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 12:18pm
CVS, Rite Aid (formerly Brooks and formerly Osco), and Walgreens have been at all out war on the North Shore for a while now.
Revere
Broadway: Rite Aid is across from Walgreens
Rt.1 over pass: Rite Aid across from Walgreens, down the street from CVS
Saugus
Rt.1 um yeah youve all seen that mess
Chelsea
Broadway: Walgreens, down the street CVS
and so forth, its a bit insane.
All over
By bph
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 12:26pm
It's the same in W. Roxbury, Newton, Needham downtown Boston, probably all over - when you see a CVS, look around, and you'll probably see a Walgreens.
Downtown Boston is a CVS monopoly
By Ron Newman
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 12:56pm
There are no Rite Aid, Walgreens, or any other kind of drugstore in downtown Boston. Just one CVS after another. (There used to be even more, but CVS wisely consolidated the two stores that were a block apart on Washington St.)
Harvard Square maintains a
By ShadyMilkMan
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 1:03pm
Harvard Square maintains a silly monopoly on CVS as well. The one on JFK is a silly little small extension that only seems to carry cold cream, chips and batteries. It doesnt seem like its worth the extra rent to have two of them when the big one carries everything the little one does anyway.
The other Harvard Sq CVS used to be a "Rix"
By Ron Newman
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 1:10pm
which was a chain of 'health and beauty aids' stores; they sold all the non-prescription stuff you'd find in a real drugstore, but had no pharmacy counter.
I wonder how many of the other seemingly redundant CVS stores are still around because CVS bought out some other chain and never bothered to close duplicate stores.
Does Coolidge Corner still have two CVS stores, a block apart?
Yep
By Stewart
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 1:20pm
With a Walgreens in between.
Hmmm.
By independentminded
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 3:19pm
Never knew about the small CVS on JFK Street.
Coolidge Corner, too, seems to have a monopoly on CVS--there are at least two of them..on the same street...one on the corner of Harvard and Beacon Streets, and the other right next door to the Coolidge Corner Theatre.
Yeah, its next to a little
By ShadyMilkMan
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 3:47pm
Yeah, its next to a little greasy spoon thats apparently wicked popular with the old time hollywood set. Its in the middle of everything but off to the side at the same time.
Actually, ShadyMilkMan,
By independentminded
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 7:48pm
No, it's not. The CVS that I'm referring to here is on the other side of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, and therefore, it's not next to the little greasy spoon place at all, if you're thinking of the pizza place.
I was refering to your first
By ShadyMilkMan
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 8:36pm
I was refering to your first sentence about JFK street CVS
Oh
By bph
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 4:34pm
Guess I didn't notice that the Walgreens that used to be on Franklin St. was gone.
So much of the merchandise at Rite Aid is substandard.
By theszak
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 12:31pm
So much of the merchandise at Rite Aid is substandard. Rite Aid could get better quality merchandise.
C-Ville Resident
By mogs
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 2:55pm
A Charlottesville (VA) resident here from a college town who saw the same thing (except for the CVS took over our local indie concert and record hall on our historic corner area). All of the little vendors I've talked to on the same strip are slowly folding... and yet at the same time CVS has such nice prices... and yet I still force myself only to look at go towards the people I've bought from forever.
I guess I just like a bit of character and the personal relationship no matter how small it is; and I guess I'll vote with my dollars about that.
There's been a CVS across
By Dave
Mon, 12/22/2008 - 4:36pm
There's been a CVS across the street from Walgreen's at 138/Central in Stoughton since whenever it was that NHD went out of business.