Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Boston residents concerned of ‘pharmacy desert’ as closure of another Walgreens nears
Boston25news.com ^ | 01/11/2024 | Katie Brace

Posted on 01/11/2024 7:24:56 AM PST by massmike

BOSTON — A major drugstore chain is shutting down another location in Boston in just a matter of days and people who live in the area are concerned that they are now living in a “pharmacy desert.”

The Walgreens at 416 Warren Street in Roxbury will shut its doors for good come Martin Luther King Jr. Day, becoming the chain’s fourth city location to close in a little over a year.

In late 2022, Walgreens suddenly shuttered locations in Mattapan, Hyde Park, and on Washington Street in Roxbury.

Some Boston City Councilors have blasted the company for closing stores in predominantly Black, Brown, and working-class communities.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston25news.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; closure; isitthemagainyogi; mlkdayobservation; pharmacy; retail
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-82 next last
To: Harmless Teddy Bear

[Even places in video games shut down if you continually raid them.]

Even NPCs will take only so much abuse.


41 posted on 01/11/2024 7:55:20 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: massmike

“The Walgreens at 416 Warren Street in Roxbury will shut its doors for good come Martin Luther King Jr. Day”
How aprapos.


42 posted on 01/11/2024 7:57:08 AM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

“Ever notice how nice the cars are in the hood?”

Always shiny.

Had black neighbors that were always in trouble with our HOA because they didn’t take care of their yard.

Once the bank repossessed the house a flipper bought it.
In talking to him he stated that house was in the worst shape of any home he had ever rehabbed.....how do you lose a kitchen drawer???

But her Infiniti and his SUV with the fancy wheels were always clean......priorities man!


43 posted on 01/11/2024 7:59:38 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: massmike

The folks there need to stop fouling their own nest and then they can have nice things. They have not only deprived themselves of pharmacy services, but also of another place to shop for other things, since about 90% of the stuff in a Walgreens is not medical.


44 posted on 01/11/2024 8:06:05 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: massmike

Boston is a bastion of hypocrisy. The slave trade was their bread and butter and once they got cheap Irish labor they sold their slaves to the South they became abolitionists. They then kept blacks in neighborhoods where they didn’t have to live with them and when bussing was forced upon them, long after it had been shoved down southerners throats, they rioted to keep the blacks out of their neighborhood schools. Now they are whining that some aspects of their Utopian society is unruly because they have stripped the LE of their power they no longer have businessmen wanting to be soft targets for the animals. SMH....And don’t mention their acceptance of plagiarism long before this Harvard episode...(ie the allowance of MLK,Jr. to plagiarize his doctoral thesis and award it to him)


45 posted on 01/11/2024 8:06:45 AM PST by vetvetdoug
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dforest

Yes they do. Your card / plan becomes part of your profile.


46 posted on 01/11/2024 8:07:02 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: eyeamok

Also agreed. I also buy direct from India.


47 posted on 01/11/2024 8:07:44 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: massmike
Some Boston City Councilors have blasted the company for closing stores in predominantly Black, Brown, and working-class communities.

Maybe they ought to try and figure out a way to reduce shoplifting in predominantly Black, Brown, and working-class communities.

48 posted on 01/11/2024 8:08:56 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: massmike

Nobody wants to have a business in a location where their product gets stolen and their employees are in fear of their lives. This is not a difficult concept to grasp.


49 posted on 01/11/2024 8:09:48 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Vigilanteman

Some Boston City Councilors


how many and what are their names.


50 posted on 01/11/2024 8:10:27 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: massmike

Looks like a great opportunity for the Christian Scientist church to seek out new members.


51 posted on 01/11/2024 8:12:40 AM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: massmike

Stop robbing the stores and they might stay in business and open.


52 posted on 01/11/2024 8:12:41 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: eyeamok

Would you, please, post any links re: online ordering from Canada. Thank you in advance.


53 posted on 01/11/2024 8:13:13 AM PST by leopud
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: bigbob

Clearly, the answer is city government run pharmacies. /off SARC


54 posted on 01/11/2024 8:16:28 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: eyeamok
Still way cheaper online from Canada than Amazon

My I have the link?

55 posted on 01/11/2024 8:19:10 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: massmike

my local cupcake shop closed and we are worried about a dessert desert.


56 posted on 01/11/2024 8:22:09 AM PST by Kenny500c ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: massmike

You fools voted for it. Embrace the suck


57 posted on 01/11/2024 8:24:16 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: massmike

Let’s see...

There are food deserts, nike shoe store deserts pharmacy deserts, apple store deserts, even Walmart deserts.

And all those deserts are all in the same places. I wonder what causes that?


58 posted on 01/11/2024 8:27:54 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeganC

They’re genetically incapable of connecting dots.


59 posted on 01/11/2024 8:29:24 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: PeterPrinciple

You do realize that you are a racist for asking, don’t you? ;-}


60 posted on 01/11/2024 8:30:09 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-82 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson