Walgreens shuts hundreds of stores as protests grow

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11. Most Walgreens aren't megastores.

Where I grew up the pharmacy was Eldridges, and it was about the size of a Walgreen's, perhaps a bit bigger if you count the soda bar. (Which was gone by the time I was 10 and could maybe actually use it.) The Rite-Aid that replaced it down the street a bit later was about the size of a Walgreen's.

The Walgreen's I passed on the way to the Walgreen's I stopped at today were the same size, neither that huge.

I do remember seeing a mom-and-pop pharmacy recently--not sure where--and I had to wonder if it really had the range of a Walgreen's or if it was really a weed dispensary in traditional clothing. (But even that's been diminished because the local one's started having a lot of the larger orders filled by a central fulfillment center--so my 90 days' supply of whatever takes a few days to get now when before it would be filled locally within an hour or two.)