Posted on 02/27/2017 8:21:03 AM PST by simpson96
CHICAGO (CBS) Politicians are pushing back against the planned closing of a CVS pharmacy within the next month on the west side of Chicago.
WBBMs Nancy Harty reports.
State Representative Melissa Conyears-Ervin and other elected officials stood in front of a CVS store at Madison and Kedzie Sunday morning to denounce the move. Her husband, Alderman Jason Ervin, said the case was a travesty and that it amounts to theft.
We have enough challenges and problems in this community, and we dont need to have the fact that our seniors cannot get their basic medicine anywhere in East or West Garfield Park, he said.
Ervin said Chicago gave the drugstore $1 million in tax breaks to open at the East Garfield Park location about five years ago. He added that hes having the citys lawyers look at any reimbursement the company may owe Chicago.
Conyears-Ervin said its unacceptable that CVS has not informed customers of its plans to close within a month. She also said a family-owned pharmacy that used to be located across the street closed after CVS moved in. That means seniors and other customers will have to travel farther to fill prescriptions.
Because CVS opened, it pushed out our Ma and Pa pharmacy, she said.
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What are they going to do, force the business to stay open with threats of jail time? I’ll bet they are robbed constantly and have a big problem with shoplifting. If I owned a business, there’s no way I’d open a store in that city.
Unbelievable.
I am sorry. I know there are seniors in that area that need their meds, but if you want a CVS to operate profitably in that area, they need a secure workplace.
These scummy a-holes have worked hand-in-hand with community organizer types so hard to demonize law enforcement and prosecute them for doing their damned hard jobs, and now they raise a stink because the costs of security and other overhead costs have forced CVS to close.
They gave money to CVS to open the store, and are pissed that the “mom and pop” pharmacy (seems like one pharmacy, if it was even that) had to close. I’ll bet those people weren’t going to be in business much longer with or without CVS moving in.
All you drug stores belong us.
Nor the losses from shoplifting.
That is my thinking in all of these tax breaks - what you said, or, to my liking, a small break for each year and then a balloon break the last year. If it is all up front, then, as mentioned elsewhere, they take the money and then run the second year.
You never know what was slipped under the lawyers' table though.
Oh, yeah. Loss control is out of control. Count on it.
Businesses put their stores where they make profit, not where they have to lose money to provide a service to a less than grateful clientele. And gubmint can’t dictate for a business to remain open to provide a service in a location that runs at a loss.
Just how much COOLAID do these people drink?!?
Wow, the hood rats are stealing that store blind to the tune of over a million?! DAAAAYYYYUUUUMMMMM!!!!
One less place to get pain pills. Hurts the community.
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