When I was younger, my sister worked as a pharmacist at some drug store chain. She thought it fairly odd that they sold automobile tires there.
The last time I went to Walgreens, my debit card was compromised, and I had to get a new one, and the bank had to credit four charges to my old card.
I’ll never go back again.
There used to be (as late as the early 80’s) a large grocery store on Empire Way in Seattle (Now it’s MLK JR. Way) where they also had an auto parts counter. They also did brake and valve grinding.
Every now and then some guy would walk into the front doors of the grocery store pushing a grocery basket with the heads off his V8 in them.
The parking lot was a bit trashy.
Our society has been slowly cleaning up every year. If you could go back in time 40 years a lot of places you like now would seem like real dumps. Standards keep ratcheting up, but so slow we don’t really notice.