[pepsionice]

This strategy is basically what I’d call ‘Detroit-ize’ a neighborhood enough....that no commercial activity exists, and you wake up needing aspirin/toilet paper one day....instead of walking three minutes to get it....you drive six miles to get it.

If I were a Walgreens...I’d open a new operation with a window pick-up site....you order via the internet, and some kid bags everything for you to walk over and pick it up at the window. Keep the customers out of the store entirely.

[mad_as_he$$]

“If I were a Walgreens...I'd open a new operation with a window pick-up site....you order via the internet, and some kid bags everything for you to walk over and pick it up at the window. Keep the customers out of the store entirely.”

I would also do that if I were in position to do so - after the business model studies were complete. I suspect that it wouldn't be profitable. Oh and it would have to be done in a manner that keeps employees physically separate from the “customers”.

[alexander_busek]

If I were a Walgreens...I’d open a new operation with a window pick-up site....you order via the internet, and some kid bags everything for you to walk over and pick it up at the window. Keep the customers out of the store entirely.

Kinda like liquor stores do? But they've gotten heat for installing "racist" cages to protect their clerks from hold-up men.

Regards,

[Hambone 1934]

That walk up idea is a good one

[zeugma]

// If I were a Walgreens...I’d open a new operation with a window pick-up site....you order via the internet, and some kid bags everything for you to walk over and pick it up at the window. Keep the customers out of the store entirely.

...and everything at that location would cost 10%-20% more than other stores. They’d complain about that too. Not that anyone sane would care.