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Neighbors frustrated by Rochester Rite Aid's upcoming closure
WHAM radio ^ | 5/4/2023 | Cheyanne Walker

Posted on 05/06/2023 4:25:04 PM PDT by fhayek

Scott Winkler, who lives in the area, has been a loyal customer of the Rite Aid store for three years. He recently found out the pharmacy was closing, leaving him and other residents in the neighborhood without easy access to essential medications.

"Somebody has to stand up for what's right, and that is a pharmacy that is an intricate part of this area," Winkler said. "Now it's gone, and the only thing we have left is Family Dollar — and hopefully they won't close."

With the pharmacy closing, Winkler will no longer be able to walk over to get his medications. Instead, he will have to take two buses and go to a nearby Walmart to fill his prescriptions.

Winkler is particularly concerned about the impact on the elderly residents in the community who may have difficulty traveling to get their medication.

Mayor Malik Evans expressed his disappointment with Rite Aid's decision to close the pharmacy. He said that the city had been working to keep such stores open and was caught off guard by the announcement.

"It's still shameful that in this day and age we still have stores that have been supported by the city of Rochester for hundreds of years, but they have no problem turning their back on our city," Evans said.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: crime; newyork; newyorkisacraphole; pharmacy; retail; riteaid; rochester; theft
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To: fhayek

when a business closes because of rampant crime, it’s always the business’ fault and not the application of laws against the criminals.


21 posted on 05/06/2023 4:39:10 PM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: GOPJ

It’s those darn digital cameras to blame [and fuel injection].


22 posted on 05/06/2023 4:39:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: fhayek

The concepts of cause and effect is just too difficult for some people.


23 posted on 05/06/2023 4:41:14 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: fhayek

Drug deserts. Democrats just love the desert.


24 posted on 05/06/2023 4:41:40 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: fhayek
did any of these customers help stop the stealing?...did they report their kids or their neighbors for doing this?....

they can cry all they want, but they allowed this to happen....

all would have taken is for some of them to stop the thieves or at least get their description and car license plates....

25 posted on 05/06/2023 4:43:06 PM PDT by cherry
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To: fhayek

RE: “...a pharmacy that is an intricate part of this area,” Winkler said. “Now it’s gone, and the only thing we have left is Family Dollar....”


Guy leaning against a limo in the middle school parking lot.
“I is leaping into the gap when the man’s capitalism fails us. I gots the pharmaceuticals in stock y’all need right now.”

https://www.ebay.com/itm/302135259483?chn=ps&var=600957139998&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290


26 posted on 05/06/2023 4:46:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: fhayek

walmart has mail order deliveries.


27 posted on 05/06/2023 4:46:52 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: fhayek

It’s racist to demand law and order. Profits are also racist.


28 posted on 05/06/2023 4:49:46 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Sacajaweau

our local rite-aid closed, too...and it’s not in a crappy neighborhood. i think the store is in trouble. we have 3 cvs close by..and target...and wegman...and walmart. that area is store poor.


29 posted on 05/06/2023 4:50:56 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: GOPJ

My family has history in Rochester. German immigrants 1848-1868, Nagels, Ihrigs, Helmstaeters, Franks, from Wurttemberg and the Palatinate, worked as butchers, tradesmen and Lutheran clergy, wound up with a lot of property which has of course become worthless.

My Dad’s Aunt lived there in a big old house, died there in 2008 age 97.

Thank God she didn’t live to see what her city became.


30 posted on 05/06/2023 4:51:34 PM PDT by Jim Noble (It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government)
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To: fhayek

If private business decides to fill an open gap, it will do so. Likewise they will leave when they can’t do well in an area.

These people don’t have a right to anything from a private business. They don’t make decisions because Fred over there is upset.


31 posted on 05/06/2023 4:55:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: fhayek

“Somebody has to stand up for what’s right...”

OK, let it start with you. Recruit a bunch of neighbors to take shifts in the store watching for and reporting shoplifters. Help the business have a reason to stay.


32 posted on 05/06/2023 4:57:10 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: peggybac

Rochester Zings Jack Benny——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXRblykmgMI

Guess it was the other Rochester.


33 posted on 05/06/2023 5:00:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: fhayek

Idiot black mayor: “Where my peeps gone do dey shoplifting now mang?”


34 posted on 05/06/2023 5:04:35 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: fhayek

#NewYorkStateofAnarchy…


35 posted on 05/06/2023 5:04:58 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: GOPJ

Eventually, the federal government will attempt to force stores into black areas by claiming that it is a civil rights issue.


36 posted on 05/06/2023 5:06:59 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: fhayek
races-Rochester-NY
37 posted on 05/06/2023 5:08:34 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: fhayek
Malik Evans

Lemme guess . . .

38 posted on 05/06/2023 5:14:29 PM PDT by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: thegagline

Let the FEDS find out first hand what is happening, then.


39 posted on 05/06/2023 5:14:43 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

40 posted on 05/06/2023 5:16:25 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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