Recently, Brian and I went to the other nearby Walgreens that we don’t go to because several years ago they pissed me off for some reason that neither of us can remember, and at the time I DECREED that we would never shop at that Walgreens ever again but would shop at the other nearby Walgreens instead. Until a few weeks ago. Well. Unlike the Walgreens we usually go to, this other Walgreens does not lock up their deodorant (see here). And they’re mere blocks apart from each other. Interesting, huh? Not really.
Anyway, we won’t be shopping at that other nearby Walgreens again anytime soon because when we were there, Brian went down the paper goods aisle and I waited at the end until he turned around to face me. I had picked up a soccer ball from the bin at the end of the aisle and planned to drop kick it to him, knowing that I’d miss because I’ve never in my entire life successfully drop kicked a ball. He grinned and nodded his encouragement, so I drop kicked it, kicking my leg really hard because I knew I would miss it anyway. The ball went sailing over the shelves into the next aisle.
Although we hadn’t finished our shopping, I thought it was a good idea for us to just get out of there with what we had; Brian agreed. As we made our way down the aisle toward the front of the store, who should come around the corner carrying the very ball I successfully drop kicked but a Walgreens clerk. I mumbled something about it being an accident and we got the hell out of there.
Oopsies!
Is there a CVS or Osco nearby? lol
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The one nearby Osco was turned into a CVS years ago, and I hate CVS because, irrational as this may sound, they have carpeting. I just don’t understand why a drug store would have carpeting when they sell more than just prescriptions — you know — they sell a few grocery items, too, and someone could break a bottle or something and it’d spill all over the carpeting and make it just…gross!
Not about Walgreens really, but that other great “institution” … Target.
We just got a new Target in our town. And it feels different from the Target in the nearby city of Waterloo; that one is more working-class. The new one in Cedar Falls feels really chi-chi.
And I’m told by my friend Grant, whose daughter works there, that Target has different market slots, according to the demographics and whatnot. And our Target is more upper-class, evidently.
In any case, the clothes seem boring at our new store. And there’s so much off-gassing or out-gassing or whatever it’s called from the new carpets and plastic. Gee, that was appetizing.
I should run over and see if the deodorant is segregated and imprisoned at Target. I believe that the closest Walgreens doesn’t lock up their deodorant. I wonder about the two other Walgreens stores. Hmm.
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That’s very interesting. So according to Grant’s daughter (I remember Grant from AWP way back when), it turns out my theory is a fact. The nearby Target has signage in both English and Spanish, probably because of the number of Hispanics in the neighborhood. You’d think we were in Canada! The items they carry are OK but the selection isn’t great.
The next Target over, on the other hand, carries the same items but has a larger selection of these items. The signage is all in English and it definitely has a more upscale feel. It happens to lie within a gentrified yuppie (redundant?) neighborhood. It might also be a Super Target, though I’m not sure. The only real difference between a Super Target and a regular Target is that the former carries more grocery items, I think.
The nearby (Hispanic) Target opened long after we moved to the neighborhood from Columbus; that “new car(pet)”
smell will go away fast!