I know that there were petitions floating around at various meetings in December and some individuals took some of the petition sheets but it wasn't really organized and making sure that the petitions all got gathered, letters sent to all the powers that be and all those organizing activities that should have taken place around this Walgreen's closing. And besides, it was too late by then.
Oh well, an opportunity lost for the entire Phillips neighborhood and a good example of probably a case of where the four Districts, regions or whatever you want to call them should have come back together to work on this common cause.
I love community organizing and although I am busy in different avenues of life these days - I am really sorry I didn't take some "more" action than just signing a petition. I feel a great loss in a battle I think maybe we could have won. At least until we found an alternative to meet the daily medical needs of many in our community.
Annie Young
East Phillips
At 09:40 PM 1/2/03 +0000, Eric Oines wrote:
From what I understand, the company said they weren't making enough money from prescriptions, which seems crazy to me. I was in that store 3-4 times a week and there were ALWAYS half a dozen folks waiting for prescriptions to be filled.
There is a "pharmacy only" in the building between Children's and Abbott-Northwestern on Chicago, but that's it for Phillips. That's an awful big area to have only one pharmacy.
Contrary to what Jim Mork postulated, my understanding is that shrinkage is a bigger problem in Walgreen's type stores in more suburban and rural settings, the primary target items being makeup and Metabo-Life type diet pills (teen girls), condoms (teen boys) and pseudophed (for making crystal meth). That info comes from someone I know who was a regional manager for Rite-Aid Drugs on the east coast.
Anyway, it certainly sucks that they closed.
Eric Oines
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