donaldtoo
Well-Known Member
Shhhhh...
Don’t tell my 80-yr.-old+ mom and 86-yr.-old+ pop, as they’re on their second brand new bought Honda Pilot...!!!!!
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Shhhhh...
Don’t tell my 80-yr.-old+ mom and 86-yr.-old+ pop, as they’re on their second brand new bought Honda Pilot...!!!!!
MinnieM123
Premium Member
The only thing that remotely intrigues me about that “vehicle”
The halogens are horrible at night -- you look in your rear view mirror and get immediately blinded by the car behind yours!
Article here from HuffPost:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ban-...qsMy7Y1uI5QoxNe4QpM7lv-d1uCwoBpkIkZTCUdh0bMNW
MinnieM123
Premium Member
It's even stranger around here. A few month ago, I heard that our local Walgreens (a stand-alone, not in any cluster of stores, etc., and away from the business district), was going to move into the business district shopping area. Their new location would be directly across the street from a CVS there.
So we had been wondering what sort of business (or housing, condos, etc.) would be going into the empty lot when Walgreens moved out of it's location, to relocate downtown. Well ... just read in the local newspaper that CVS is moving out of the business district INTO the old Walgreens location!!!
Make any sense? 
Goofyernmost
Well-Known Member
What does make any sense anymore?It's even stranger around here. A few month ago, I heard that our local Walgreens (a stand-alone, not in any cluster of stores, etc., and away from the business district), was going to move into the business district shopping area. Their new location would be directly across the street from a CVS there.
So we had been wondering what sort of business (or housing, condos, etc.) would be going into the empty lot when Walgreens moved out of it's location, to relocate downtown. Well ... just read in the local newspaper that CVS is moving out of the business district INTO the old Walgreens location!!!
DryerLintFan
Well-Known Member
I've read that CVS and Walgreens are often seen right next to each other for two big reasons. One: one company has already done the expensive and time consuming work of determining the best place to put a pharmacy, so the other company can skip that and go straight to installation. Two: because it's a pharmacy, people tend to go to whichever one is closer to them. So when they're next to each other, they can poach customers from the other one. So if they were a mile apart, you'd just go to whichever one was closer, but when they're right next to each other you'd pick your favorite one, which they both think they are
Goofyernmost
Well-Known Member
Sounds logical, but, I would question if it is because of one doing the research. One of the Rite Aids that I was talking about was in a triangle of three, one on each corner. Rite aid had the easiest access. It just stands to reason that three stores offering identical items and mission leads to either one being the best liked and the other two becoming empty, or all three splitting up the available customers for that area. Then throw in a discount outlet like Walmart and Walmart thrives and the other three come up with red figures. Seems like they all would want to go where the least amount of competition exists, Whom ever made the decision to build the third store in the triangle needed to go back to some sort of school. The other two have already become establish and one has to ask, what is the draw other then, perhaps, clever advertising. CVS seem to be the one that is most often mentioned around here.
I go into these 12K sq ft stores and I am the only one in there. The staff constantly outnumbers the customers. How do they survive? Being in an inner city where that majority of the prescription work is Medicare and the stores are used because it is easily reached by walking or public transportation would find that competition where they have to lower the prices even more, would be detrimental to all of them. Must work because it is a very common situation.
I used to feel the same way about furniture stores. I have never seen a lot of people in any of them. Always wondered how they make ends meet. Then I realized that furniture is a high priced, very high profit margin item. I went in and bought a bedroom set (Bed, two side tables and a dresser) and walked out $4000.00 poorer. If the markup was 100%, which I was told by someone that this was the case, that's a $2000.00 profit in just a half an hour. So I decided that they didn't need to have a customer filled store. Small items like candy bars and bandaids require a huge volume of customers. I have never even accidentally walked into a busy looking drug store. Usually I have to locate the cashier who is busy straightening shelves. One of the many mysteries of life that I am probably going to leave this mortal coil never knowing.
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FutureCEO
Well-Known Member
Which is especially true with Walgreens buying most of Rite Aid. The Rite Aid next to CVS near me was bought out by Walgreens but since Walgreens already had a store, the Rite Aid was closed.
Which I liked Rite Aid...I thought it was cheaper than Walgreens and CVS. Not that I went a lot. Maybe once or twice a year.
DryerLintFan
Well-Known Member
I used to work in Walgreens, and they make most of their money through the pharmacy. The rest of the items seems to have a pretty high margin, and you'd be surprised how much product they do move even though the store always looks empty. At the time we made a lot of revenue through the photo development but that's not really a thing any more. Their pharmacists are legit trained and have a great reputation. People trust them. And they're paid a lot. The pharmacy is the thing that keeps them afloat. I honestly wouldn't be surprised in ten years if the pharmacy was the only thing offered, with more drive through lanes like at the bank.
Tony the Tigger
Well-Known Member
Shot of mustard powder (cough, hack!) Done!
In all seriousness, when I order Chinese, I usually get broccoli in garlic sauce (or just sautéed in brown sauce) with brown rice.
In my case, we look empty during the week as well. But we ring up more on a Saturday than Monday through Thursday combined. In a good week, we come close to that on Friday and Sunday as well.
StarWarsGirl
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- No
Last I checked, 1+1 still equals two, so we have that at least.
Cesar R M
Well-Known Member
Today's groan at work:
Background :
What happened: Boss was ed pi*** and pretty intolerant a few days ago, because staff was asking him for different system emails and confirmations, including authorization emails. (He had almost every single master account under his personal email.
What was suggested: centralize to a sysadmin account that the top guys can access and view.
What happened: He agreed and said to "make it so pronto".
What happened now: Boss was ed that HIS account (one instance) was changed despite my calls that everything is the same. Only difference was the login (password remained the same) being the sysadmin email. He claimed that I ruined everything and that he cant login or make calls. Refuses to use the new login. And then claims that I should have granted ownership to a third party account and not renamed. (hu, then how do you want to retain all ownership powers?).
What is happening now: trying to scramble to fix everything, but everything I do is hampering by my boss refusing to do actions, being witty, that I should resolve everything or contact support. He even claims he's losing "confidence" in me. :|
Right now: Took me almost an hour to make him understand that even support told me the way to fix things. Yet he did a reactionary change and created a NEW account with his older email. Making the revert back impossible. (and hence why he complains "he lost everything".) when in reality everything is there in his old account.
Now I have to convince him to DELETE this new account so I an fix the OLD account.
And that is not all.
Have been told by the same boss to backup all the recordings of this account somewhere because we're moving to a new platform imminently "soon". Even authorized developer time to create an script to allow this backup procedure to be automated.
And once it happened. Everyone started to panic "WHERE ARE MY RECORDINGS?". and I'm like facepalming "I told everyone about the backups a few weeks ago. Nothing is deleted, just restore from the trash bin of the program".
Now everyone is recovering ALL their files that THEY REALLY DO NOT NEED TO.. and causing us to go overquota and destroy the reason of why we're doing a backup elsewhere (aka save money).
My god, what a week...
End rant.
Background :
What happened: Boss was ed pi*** and pretty intolerant a few days ago, because staff was asking him for different system emails and confirmations, including authorization emails. (He had almost every single master account under his personal email.
What was suggested: centralize to a sysadmin account that the top guys can access and view.
What happened: He agreed and said to "make it so pronto".
What happened now: Boss was ed that HIS account (one instance) was changed despite my calls that everything is the same. Only difference was the login (password remained the same) being the sysadmin email. He claimed that I ruined everything and that he cant login or make calls. Refuses to use the new login. And then claims that I should have granted ownership to a third party account and not renamed. (hu, then how do you want to retain all ownership powers?).
What is happening now: trying to scramble to fix everything, but everything I do is hampering by my boss refusing to do actions, being witty, that I should resolve everything or contact support. He even claims he's losing "confidence" in me. :|
Right now: Took me almost an hour to make him understand that even support told me the way to fix things. Yet he did a reactionary change and created a NEW account with his older email. Making the revert back impossible. (and hence why he complains "he lost everything".) when in reality everything is there in his old account.
Now I have to convince him to DELETE this new account so I an fix the OLD account.
And that is not all.
Have been told by the same boss to backup all the recordings of this account somewhere because we're moving to a new platform imminently "soon". Even authorized developer time to create an script to allow this backup procedure to be automated.
And once it happened. Everyone started to panic "WHERE ARE MY RECORDINGS?". and I'm like facepalming "I told everyone about the backups a few weeks ago. Nothing is deleted, just restore from the trash bin of the program".
Now everyone is recovering ALL their files that THEY REALLY DO NOT NEED TO.. and causing us to go overquota and destroy the reason of why we're doing a backup elsewhere (aka save money).
My god, what a week...
End rant.
StarWarsGirl
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- No
One of the four near me is a drive through. If that were near my house, I'd be super spoiled.
I primarily use a local pharmacy for prescriptions, but I prefer them over CVS if I need something filled while I'm at work. CVS always seems to mess something up with the insurance. Which is ironic because they're partnered with my insurance company.
I do like that I can walk in there quickly when I need a few items and not spend a ton of time wandering around. I do this if I only have 10-15 minutes to find what I need.
Rista1313
Well-Known Member
It's funny I ONLY use CVS for prescriptions... husband has about 9 that we fill monthly, and my pharmacist at CVS knows me by voice on the phone, knows what husband is taking, gets me discounts when he can, and I feel I can really trust him.
Cesar R M
Well-Known Member
Update ... boss was very annoying refusing to follow the instructions, claiming I was not clear. Claiming he did the instructions already (he needed to repeat the same instructions but with another account). Took like an hour to get him to do the simple task of checking his email and click on an email link. x_x
Dear god..
On the good side.. All done.
Dear god..
On the good side.. All done.
MouseDreaming
Well-Known Member
Thank goodness it is done. Hope that holds him for a bit.
