[Phoenix11]

*This is my first posted topic. Please forgive me if I did not do something correctly. :)

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Maybe CVS managers consulted with Pizza Hut owners in Riviera Beach.

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[WayneS]

Wait.

You mean corporations are no longer allowed to decide for themselves where to open their places of business?

What COUNTRY do we live in?

[Hoodlum91]

Lemme guess - they don’t want to put stores full of costly drugs in neighborhood where they will likely be robbed at least once a week for said drugs.

Didn’t read the article - am I right?

[laotzu]

failing to provide customers equal access to stores and services in Philadelphia

I live in south Texas. They have much better access to Philadelphia stores than I do.

[popdonnelly]

Why should CVS lose money in poor neighborhoods?

[CholeraJoe]

Less affluent areas are also high crime areas. I doubt CVS wants to locate a store carrying tobacco, narcotics and alcohol in a crime-ridden area, endangering employees.

[laotzu]

Good morning, & welcome.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Well, I guess since the NAALCP said it, then it must be true.

[Tribune7]

Ping.

[old and tired]

The sharks must smell blood in the water. CVS is nothing compared to Wawa in terms of store location and Philly neighborhoods. I hope CVS holds their ground.

[angkor]

>>>>>”Drugstore red-lining is a real problem,” Mondesire said.<<<<<<<

Money quote.

It’s just another fake “redlining” shakedown.

[Ouderkirk]

Did they post signs that said “Whites Only”?

I didn’t think so.

So they didn’t want to build stores in blighted neighborhoods where their property would be covered with graffiti before the store opened, the construction site would be vandalized and robbed, and the final store property vandalized, robbed and taxed to high heaven.

[G.Mason]

Interesting.

It ought to get real interesting when folks in the country are told they have to move to the cities because the "minorities" don't have enough victims left.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

No matter what you do, it can be spun as racism.

[econjack]

When I was teaching econ to MBA students at Creighton University in Omaha, I had them determine if price differentials existed between urban versus suburban stores for chains that operated in both places. As I recall, most of the students either studied grocery or drug stores. The consistent result across store type was that urban prices were higher. Interviews with store managers after the numbers were crunched determined that the overwhelming reason was higher insurance costs, mainly because of shop lifting.

If the NAACP wants to make an cogent issue of this, they need to examine the underlying cost of doing business in predominately black neighborhoods and compare it to suburban costs. To me, if the cost structures are different, it isn't discrimination.

[ScottinVA]

Well, after they’re done walking the pit bulls and cashing welfare checks, they can hop into their Cadillacs and drive to their nearest store location. WTF is the problem??

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Let them go to Rite-Aid.” (Apologies to Marie Antoinette).

[Red_Devil 232]

If you read the article it looks like CVS is not unionized (correct me if I am wrong).

The company (CVS) said that since 2007, Change to Win "has attempted to pressure CVS to deny our employees the full benefit of voting rights afforded to them under federal law. This 'report' and the accompanying media outreach is the latest attempt by CTW to achieve this objective." Change to Win is a coalition of seven major unions established in 2005. It consists of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Laborers International Union of North America, Service Employees International, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, United Farm Workers of America, United Food and Commercial Workers International and Unite Here.

[chrisser]

Instead of all this blustering, why doesn’t the NAACP open its own drug store in these neighborhoods?

Surely, from all the fuss, they must think a drug store in this neighborhood would be very profitable, otherwise the charge of racism falls flat on its face.