Sears/Kmart quickly disappearing

[Diggin It]

but probably 20 CVS and Walgreens locations. I'd much rather go to CVS or Walgreens for candy, prescriptions, photo printing, greeting cards, small stuff.

I get what I need at Dollar General or Big Lots. Use the locally owned drug store for some things.

I was in Wally's Wart once. Once. Couldn't get out fast enough. What a pit.

 

[dragoneggs]

I hate going to Walmart. While they do have good prices, it's just isle after isle and a ton of people all the time. I can park close to the door at the CVS and Walgreens and get in and out fast.

Not to mention those ‘wide load’ women taking up two lanes with their shopping carts full of junk food!

 

[MossRoad]

I get what I need at Dollar General or Big Lots. Use the locally owned drug store for some things.

I was in Wally's Wart once. Once. Couldn't get out fast enough. What a pit.

We don't have any locally owned drug stores near us anymore. The last one I know of closed around 1990 and the owner went to work for Osco's as their pharmacist. He said he made more money working for them than he did owning his own store. There was one downtown, but it got bought out by a health care company and moved to the next town over in 2013. One of our local hospitals also closed and moved to the next town over. See, the next town over doesn't have the low income residents like South Bend, and it's closer to the affluent suburbia that's been building up over there the past 30-40 years.

 

[MossRoad]

Not to mention those ‘wide load’ women taking up two lanes with their shopping carts full of junk food!

Hey, you're talking to an oatmeal cream pie, nutty bar, swiss cake roll fan here.... I'm fond of the sodie pop and cookies, too.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I get what I need at Dollar General or Big Lots. Use the locally owned drug store for some things.

I was in Wally's Wart once. Once. Couldn't get out fast enough. What a pit.

Around here now one can not get to a WM store without driving past at least one Dollar General store. If they had gas they could be a one stop shop in my book.

 

[Diggin It]

Around here now one can not get to a WM store without driving past at least one Dollar General store. If they had gas they could be a one stop shop in my book.

I pass three to get into town where BigLots, Lowes and the rest of the stores I use are located. They missed out big time by not putting a DG Market (fresh produce, meat, etc.) at one of those three locations since there are no other grocery stores nearby. They could have had a nearly captive clientele.

 

[Sigarms]

I get what I need at Dollar General or Big Lots. Use the locally owned drug store for some things.

I was in Wally's Wart once. Once. Couldn't get out fast enough. What a pit.

Dollar general makes their money just like a convinence store. Put one up on every corner in the middle of no where, and people will pay what you're asking.

Don't know enough about big lots. Generally buy at Costco.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I always used the back door to Wally World, through Automotive. There were always parking spaces within fifty feet of the door, and you could pay for all your stuff at automotive on the way out. No lines, no babies, no hassles. Sometimes I would feel better if I pretended I was interested in buying tires or a battery.

 

[Diggin It]

Dollar general makes their money just like a convinence store. Put one up on every corner in the middle of no where, and people will pay what you're asking.

Don't know enough about big lots. Generally buy at Costco.

I was told once that their strategy was to have a store about every ten miles. That's about what it is here, give or take a few miles.

I liken Big Lots to Kresge's or Woolworth's of years back.

 

[Industrial Toys]

A few years ago, a Dollar store caught fire near here. Man, that was some hot fire. Can you imagine all that plastic?