Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
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Walgreens didn’t respond to requests for comment. Sycamore declined to comment.
Tbh I’m not sure how the business model of “being on every single intersection corner across from our identical competitor, selling items at just above dollar store quality” was ever a profitable plan, for either of the two stupid companies.
We have the Walgreens/CVS corner competition near us, and this past summer, a guy walked into the CVS, poured gasoline everywhere, and set it on fire purposefully, and himself accidentally. Then he WALKED ACROSS THE STREET to the Walgreens, as the CVS was actively burning, and asked for BURN CREAM!
So, as you can see, having the stores across the street from each other worked out well for that psychopathic arsonist. Now don’t you feel silly criticizing their corporate location strategy?
(BTW, nobody was killed, but 3 people were injured, besides the idiot, and the CVS is still closed, so that Walgreens location is probably safe from closure for now.)
So, everyone in the building at the time.
No, actually there were quite a few people, it happened at about 3 PM. People started running out as soon as he started pouring gasoline, but some got trapped behind the flames.