Pharmaceutical Desert
Someone commented this would create a "Pharmaceutical Desert" on the west side. We couldn't stop laughing for about three minutes:
- Politicians are pushing back against the planned closing of a CVS pharmacy within the next month on the west side of Chicago.
[...] State Representative Melissa Conyears-Ervin and other elected officials stood in front of a CVS store at Madison and Kedzie Sunday morning to denounce the move. Her husband, Alderman Jason Ervin, said the case was a travesty and that it amounts to theft.
“We have enough challenges and problems in this community, and we don’t need to have the fact that our seniors cannot get their basic medicine anywhere in East or West Garfield Park,” he said.
Ervin said Chicago gave the drugstore $1 million in tax breaks to open at the East Garfield Park location about five years ago. He added that he’s having the city’s lawyers look at any reimbursement the company may owe Chicago.
We're pretty sure the corporate lawyers at CVS had some sort of "sunset" provision in the tax breaks - they do that sort of thing for a multi-billion dollar corporation. You know, like the lawyers probably did for the Whole Foods in Englewood. Once economic reality sets in, corporations are mostly profit/loss orientated. And when you're trying to run a business in the heart of murder/robbery/shoplifting capital of Chicago, it's difficult to justify sticking around.
Pharmaceutical Desert.....hahahahahahaha.
Pharmaceutical Desert.....hahahahahahaha.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
90 Comments:
LOL... CVS doesn't owe a dime after enduring all the crap from the peoples at the Madison Ave store
There goes a grape tumbleweed.....................
Doctors offices can set up home delivery for medication. Seniors don't need to go to the CVS to pick up meds.
Pulaski and Madison. Get whatever you need.
Is TaxWrinkle getting the shakes ,,Philadelphia started a 1.5 cent an Ounce tax on sugar drinks in 2017 .. Philly Soft drinks sales down 35 % -50 % .. many layoffs, salary cuts happening, stores cutting hours for employees ..LOL Crook County
Homan and Madison. Hydro. Homan and Monroe. Heroin. Homan and Harrison mores weed. Madison and Albany heroin. Let see. Where else.
Between the shoplifting and employee thefts how is CVS suppose to keep the store profitable? I'd close the damn store too!
And don't forget the Dominick's that was at Roosevelt and Kedzie and then the Starbucks in the same mall. All closed. Can't run your Link card scam at those places.
Shoplifting......but the police are the problem.
I wonder what their profit margin in comparison to loss margin is for that store? Mathematics and liberals don't make sense--- look at what liberal do to get voted--- they bring out the dead to vote. Everyone who is buried in Chicago for some magical reason votes democrat. I live in Chicago and I believe we have legitimate elections-- lol. When saddam Hussein ran for president of Iraq: he did not get the party margins these democrats get. And he had the people vote at gun point
Same ole lazy alderman!
Can't negotiate a damn thing with any real business by themselves that why the kiss RAHMS ass.
The fake revrun aint generating jobs,solving crime or building anything useful.
IT s give me cash and we can help drop outs, junkies, and teens who can't seem to take a pill not to get pregnant.
But these Alderman all seem to drive luxury autos and own multiple properties in their wards. They hire their sister or cousin to open a charity but never seem to fix any problem and go out of business once the Alderman is no longer in office.
Idiots it is your people doing the stealing let them wait in line at cc hospital
Go to the Walgreens where the BPP had their HQ and STFU.
Are you happy with Hollywood's Oscar "diversity"?
"De-Fun' da Po-leece an' give dey money to US!
We need more funding for grants an' programs an' shit!
Y'all got jobs an' shit so y'all gotta share with us
or else we finna git mad an' shit..."
The usual making of excuses as to why retail establishments
just cannot hang on in "The Community."
This CVS store is probably hemorrhaging more money than
all their stores from Madison to Fullerton and Western
to Cicero combined.
The "Community" has crashed head-on into the corporate
model and best business practices.
Political pandering be damned.
OTOH...
It's a good location for a drive-thru conuh-sto', funeral home,
rib shack, barbershop and nail art emporium.
Expansion possibilities for a dry cleaner too.
>Mistuh Heavy-Hittah leaves out with a pair of sheer
pimp socks draped over a pants hanger under a
clear plastic garment bag and jumps in his Olds
Aurora with the mismatched 28s and drives off<
Heh... Doing that Police stuff for too long
can rot your heart and poison your mind.
Hey we get our snacks from there. Don't always feel like hot Cheetos and grape soda from Falcon. So yeah when an employee gave me the scoop about this a couple months ago I wasn't too thrilled. It's a safer/ cleaner place in that shithole of 011 where we can count on items being sanitary, familiar, etc. Walgreens on Homan and Roosevelt is too far south and on 010s side.
Filmore guy.
was it ferguson or baltimore where the cvs was burned down and they promised to rebuild for "the community?"
I'm surprised cvs sold any prescriptions. Don't they all self medicate via the street corner pharmacists?
These...uh...politicians are really fucking stupid. Ha Ha pharma desert...what a crock of shit.
Store is in shambles and every product is under lock and key.
Walk to the County.......
It'll help you get in shape and need less meds.
When will certain citizens get tired of being served thru bulletproof glass. When acting like an animal is your normal why complain.
When Kim Foxx practically legalizes shoplifting and the state legislature passes laws instructing us to de-police, this is what happens. More to come.
Certain people don't get the profit motive, sit at home and get a check is all they know. Reverse evolution.
There are plenty of drugs on the west side. Every corner sells them.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Nobody wants to deal with your people Ervin, no matter how much money you throw at them.
Would like to know how much left the store via shoplifting, cost of guards, etc. that store probably thrived selling soda and chips, the west side food staple.
"Madison and Kedzie" ..... There's you're answer.
Yea they just can't figure it out ... It's like in LA during the King riots ... They had just rebuilt grocery stores in area after Watts riots... Paint wasn't even dry before they burned them ... Locally ( Wilkes Barre, PA) the all night Was-Mart closes at midnight ... Why ... Certain members of community would roll into place in wee hours of morning and loot it
They can sign up for a mail subscription program for their prescriptions. This world loves to find things to be outraged over.
I would love to know how the insurance rate of that pharmacy compares to ones in nicer areas. Maybe they need more tax incentives to stay or something. I'm betting they have huge problems with shoplifting etc. too.
I talked to a the security manager for a major store chain after a robbery. He explained that the store operated at a loss due to shoplifting, employee theft and the premium they had to pay employees to come from other neighborhoods to work the store. They could not find enough workers from the neighborhood the store was in and the the overwhelming majority of the employees from the neighborhood were fired for theft or not showing up. One employee walked up and quit while I was talking to the manager. He couldn't work another minute.
I asked the manager why they kept the store open and he explained that it would look bad if they did not keep a store open in this neighborhood. They did not want the Jacksons and Sharptons of the world at their door extorting them and it was the cost of doing business. Millions wasted on stores like this because of race baiting, blood sucking parasites like Jackson, Sharpton and Flager. The normal people pay extra so this company won't be black mailed. They ruin everything.
The travesty is the amount of theft done by the members of this community.
(OT) then over here the liberals uber rich (rahms friends where he attended high school and grew up) are upset about civil rights nonsense being shoved down their throats, these are the Same types that talk shit about Chicago and helping the children let's hope many of Chicago children can attend the elite new trier high school it would be great "for the children" right hypocrites? How about instead of building the section 8 building on the north side which alderman areana is allowing building it right next to this new trier high school would be fantastic hey rahm let's see you push your agenda of diversity here that would show your for total inclusion not exclusion due to race sir that would be "change rahm we could believe in!" This would show mayor you walk the walk and not just talk the talk! Wait a minute no marching outside this school protesting this no inclusion where is flaky Jackson and the rest! Dick durbin Tammy duckworth speak out the silence is deafening!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/27/outcry-after-chicago-public-school-plans-seminar-around-civil-rights-race.html
This is what the Socialist/Democrat Party is about; this is how they think! Capitalism made this country great, and created a Middle Class. CVS has stockholders, common everyday people who put their hard earned money into that company, hoping the company progresses and profits; then THEY TOO profit! And that hard earned cash that was invested was taxed when it was earned and will be Taxed Again when the investor sells his stock and takes his profit. Many of the most prominent Democrats enjoy those Profits on stocks. However, the Democrat Party of today is Progressive, which means they support the Underclass First, the Entitlement Class that wants money and does not understand it has to be earned before it can be given away. Remember Obama telling Joe the Plumber: "You didn't build this." So if a business opens in a neighborhood that cannot support it; well whose fault is that? But the "Entitled" think YOU owe them, for everything from Slavery to Lead Paint! Its All Your Fault; so Give More, even when you are losing your money, and Most of All Continue to Vote Democrat! Every one of those Moron Politicians on the news decrying the conditions on the West Side was a Democrat!Also note, Madison & Kedzie used to be a thriving community, of Legal Immigrants who built that neighborhood. Then when it "changed" it turned to shit! Whom do you blame for that? Do Absolutely nothing more than protect each other! Baby "G"
CVS just don't understand the folks needs, the community needs. Shame on them. They can afford a little minor shop lifting. Hell they can afford to give it away free.
I, as well as the the honorable state representative and her equally honorable husband, can
direct our citizens to any number of freelance pharmaceutical facilitators. Many of them work
directly for us or our close associates. We will ensure that a steady flow of drugs will not be
impeded even by law enforcement. You can depend on it.
Well what do you want? Just ask the media and the blacks themselves it's Trumps fault. Ask Hillary. The answer is to fix the police they are the root of all evil.
You can get prescriptions by mail. Once they are set up, they come regularly. They are cheaper, and the insurance companies save a little money too.
It just takes some planning on the part of the patient...there's the rub.
It's probably more politically self serving to slam bog box retailers, and put on a big show. It will be tied to racism somehow in the near future. Bank on it.
I was thinking about doing a home delivery service for seniors in the hood. But I don't want to get car jacked. You can't implement a business plan in the hood without high quality security assessment.
If it costs too much. It's not going to survive.
drug desert my ass. just have to know where to look missy.
I'm certain the local Undocumented Pharmacists in the area, will work overtime to take up the slack.
every neighborhood had grocery stores , department stores until the neighborhood changed .
Shoplifting , robbery , customer purse snatching , strong armed robbery , burglary and armed robbery caused stores to close and relocate .
it is cancer of large democratic cities in America .
same reason people sell homes cheap , survival .
If he is so concerned why don't his Fat Ass deliver the "seniors" medicine? If it was election time he would,but,like President Trump say's "they" only come around election time then see you again in 4 years..
We're pretty sure the corporate lawyers at CVS had some sort of "sunset" provision in the tax breaks - they do that sort of thing for a multi-billion dollar corporation. You know, like the lawyers probably did for the Whole Foods in Englewood.
You gotta pass it to see what's in it!
Drug prices are much cheaper on the street.
My guess is the tax breaks ran out and the theft rate at the store is so high that without the tax breaks it is not even close to being economical to operate.
I feel bad for people who need their meds but as others mentioned routine prescriptions are readily available by mail. Not real convenient for non-routine stuff but CVS can't take the loss forever.
Walgreens closed some ghetto stores back in about 1980. The locals chartered a bus and went up to the corporate HQ in Deerfield and marched around inside the building disrupting the place for a few hours one day in protest. Didn't change anything.
OT sort off. Read this article about the soda tax in Philly. The one that's coming here on July 1
Preckwinkle still has time to rescind the tax but won't
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-22/philadelphia-soda-tax-leads-30-50-plunge-sales-mass-layoffs
What should be an outrage is Erving's wife given the post of state Representative at the cost of tax payers expense. She slipped into that position when her predecessor retired.
The Walgreens at 63rd and King. Bunch of teens kept running in stealing stuff. So after the third time or so, they closed it the next day.
Too stupid to realize or too agenda driven to admit that turning your neighborhood into an ultra-violent, crime ridden third world shithole might cause intelligent, civilized human beings to withdraw to a safe distance.
Hey we get our snacks from there. Don't always feel like hot Cheetos and grape soda from Falcon. So yeah when an employee gave me the scoop about this a couple months ago I wasn't too thrilled. It's a safer/ cleaner place in that shithole of 011 where we can count on items being sanitary, familiar, etc. Walgreens on Homan and Roosevelt is too far south and on 010s side.
Filmore guy.
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CVS is on 12's side
Fillmore is spelled with 2 L's.
Do you FNG's ever shut up?
It's business. They do a cost benefit analysis including paying back the $1 million if they have to against the cost of doing business there. If they are losing money after the analysis, they shut the store down. What have our alder creatures done to make it attractive for businesses to stay in Chicago. The sales tax is the highest in the country which causes many to shop else where. The tax on water and pop. Not to mention property tax increases. Add in extra security and the shoplifting, that isn't even a crime any more. Why would they stay? They are not a not for profit charitable organization. They ar ein business to make money.
The real story:
Of that $1 mil tax break, how much is CVs putting into the mayors various campaign coffers along with Shakedown Ervin-Turdvin. That's the worry, not the seniors. This guys Ward has the highest murder by gun rate, hates police and does nothing about illegal drug trade, pretty much the way Rahm is handling the situation.
Sure, 10-15 people will lose a job or transfer but the loss prevention budget was higher than the payroll.
Maybe the Ervin Family is squawking because of the land CVS sits on is leased...perhaps owned by an unknown entity with ties to the Ward? Hmmmmmm.
Then there's the St.Rogers of CookCo Hospital & it's affiliates, complete with a pharmacy (and doctors), plus plenty of storefront MedicAid fraud clinics carry the usually dispensed pharms too. So what's the dill?
Where are the thugs and hypes going to shoplift now? Going south to 26th St. too risky, guessing the free CTA card will get'm northbound to Humboll Park and beyond. Managers are busy removing aspirin and baby formula.
Wonder if the rebuilt CVS from the Mosby-Baltimore Riots will close?
What is the "shrinkage" shoplifting losses? Come on alderman get with something else to bitch about, how about the lack of police hiring, how about complaining about the failed mayors ideas which are also your ideas while the blood flows freely shootings up, murder up police hiring low simple equation correct alderidiots?
Lets stop the racism talk lets talk "realism" why is it the nicer stores in black areas are open then quickly closed? Could it be massive theft? Violence?
was it ferguson or baltimore where the cvs was burned down and they promised to rebuild for "the community?"
2/27/2017 02:34:00 AM
Both
Hey the west side is full of undocumented pharmacists. Whats the problem?
When your customer base steals more than it buys it's time too go !!!!
Here's an idea. Make these stores a part of VRI and employ police in uniform to work there. Police get paid and stores stay in the community.
Yo'...alder-dipshit.
Cause meet effect. Who in their right mind would try to run a legit business in a crime-ridden hell hole? You want more businesses to move in? Or existing businesses to stay? Then clean up your own backyard first, dummy. The rest will take care of itself.
The Baltimore looting of the CVS during the BLM gameplaying has consequences.
Besides, it is just as 7:03 said, anyone with an address can have their meds mailed right to their homes.
It's called economics(AKA business for the idiots)you entitled fools. The store didn't make any money cause you didn't buy things. I'm sure there was a fair share of theft and scamming going on too.
There was constant Theft from that store at Madison and Kedzie!
How you expect to run a profitable business with theft like that!
Try that theft on your local street corner and the thugs will up with a gat and rat a tat tat!
Is anybody really surprised?
I thought the local drug dealer was an unauthorized pharmacist. Silly me.
Oh, hey, I can't let this go by. Latest radio honk from some unknown but authoritative-sounding "healthcare" bunch sez heroin addiction has quadrupled in last five years -- largest growth among 55-62 age group that has legitimate, diagnosed medical problems causing severe pain!
We have gone 180 degrees away from the "pain chart" posted on ER, DR's, etc walls 10 years back. Now you are making old people so desperate and exhausted with the "no refills" policy on mild -- MILD -- opioids that I guess they just goin in the hallway and shove over, put themselves at risk in contact with a side of the planet that decent people used to cross the street to avoid.
Got a huge lecture from a pharmacist t/other day about one day early on a Sched. 4 anxiolytic so I don't puke in my sleep all the time...how about my prescription mysteriously coming up 30 tablets short recently? Keep putting these teen "aides" behind the counter to save money for the stockholders and you suffer. The wall of white coats closes and they protect each other instinctively. Yibble-yabble from 20something "social workers" about "prescription drug abuse!"
Go across the shooting-range Ike and a couple blocks north on Independence from where you hide in Oak Park and see the real real...
...but they can bother an old guy about a mild trank. Him, they can find.
You can legalize pot 10X, 20X stronger than the stuff that fueled the '60s...but boy, will you go through hell trying to get a couple 5 mg Norco.
So how many "high-powered rifles" we roundin up in the real part of town????????????????
S__t.
"They can sign up for a mail subscription program for their prescriptions. This world loves to find things to be outraged over."
2/27/2017 07:03:00 AM
F__k you. Hard enough as it is, and Troll here wants additional uncontrollable variables introduced into what is already a nearly unworkable equation.
Don't EVER sign up for automatic refills either -- puts ANOTHER layer of computerized f__kups and confusion between you and your medication and no one will take responsibility. Been there, done that, cancelled it in a panic.
No, there is NOT a "good reason" for everything. A lot of things are just stupid.
BTW -- many BCBS plans esp. Medicaid will no longer allow you to fill at CVS. Got to go to the corner of happy and healthy. Guy whose wife is CPS, plan covers whole fambly, told me their plan is still fine anywhere. Some people ride fat & high.
These idiots slay me
Alder-people, do some reading.
"Lowered crime is a precondition to economic revival, not its consequence".
Heather Mac Donald
Costco does a way better job with prescriptions and mail it to your house for free!
That store pharmacy got robbed a gun point early in the year.
Dr. Feelgood's office on the west side is open 24/7/365.
Where does this amazing sense of entitlement come from? Also, can anyone name a black politician that has made life better for their people. Made them safer, better educated, employable and employed, more prosperous. I can't think of a single one that doesn't race bait for a living.
Just like the Dominicks that opened at Roosevelt & Spaulding many years ago. They could only last so long before the "community" and its theft and violence drove them out. Its too bad the "community" and its Reverends and elected representatives just blame others for the crime and poverty which they perpetuate by their own behavior. What ever happened to pulling ones self up by their own boot straps. The cycle continues and even worsens!
A relative is an Exec. at Walgreens, and their store at Roosevelt Rd. and Homan Ave. will be gone before the summer is. Theft and violence is out of control.
Rahm and Aldercreatures should stop throwing tax payer dollars trying to bribe companies to build in Chicago. Think of all the trees they could have planted with that money.
To my recollection...there's another pharmaceutical located across the street in those apartments. Of course you'll have to catch them when they're outside. When they see a squad car they typically run inside.
The Really Pissed-Off Neanderthal said...
"Oh, hey, I can't let this go by. Latest radio honk from some unknown but authoritative-sounding "healthcare" bunch sez heroin addiction has quadrupled in last five years -- largest growth among 55-62 age group that has legitimate, diagnosed medical problems causing severe pain!"
~Snip!~
2/27/2017 03:49:00 PM
Hmmm...
Trust and believe brother, you're not the only one
"feeling a certain way" about Rahm and his bullshit.
A Policeman in his mid 50's...
Right at the stage in life when your body starts
talking LOUDLY to you about tumbling down those concrete
stairs while battling with mouth-breathing jag-offs
in the projects and what-not..
Dislocated shoulder.
Broken/dislocated fingers.
Torn-up back.
Busted knee.
Bum hip because of the
busted knee and torn-up back.
In addition to...
Thyroid gone bad.
A heart issue because of the thyroid problem.
PTSD which doesn't help with the heart and thyroid issue.
And of course, the hearing loss because of unplanned for
flashy ka-blasty in enclosed spaces like stairwells,
breezeways and cars.
...And a little pissant like Rahm Emanuel fucking GLOATS
because he stripped retirees and widows of their
health insurance?
This twitchy, false-flagging twink has the nerve to
be pissed because he THINKS Chicago Policemen are
"responsible" for his political fortunes going sideways?
A malignant manling who has NEVER had to take ownership
for anything he's ever done.
He obviously doesn't plan on aging
or experiencing what so many of us are experiencing.
Chicago Policemen ARE old men by the time they hit
their mid 50's.
Hey Rahm!
Avail yourself to that mentoring bullshit you're
on about. Act Like a Man or whatever the fuck it's called.
Own your fuck-ups and stop using The Police as a scapegoat.
Oh wait... You blew into town back in 2010 determined
to pick a fight with Policemen...
That whole "We're gonna stick it in The Cops ear" nonsense.
F/U.
"let them eat cake." Heroin is not good enough for them all ? Been for 50 years in 011 !!
Maybe Rahm should move in to their neighborhood & plant some more trees to make the neighborhood look prettier.. seems all he wants to do is plants trees.. does he own the tree company?
It's bad enough at the drugstore today; the last thing you need is to add the U.S. Postal Service. Especially in "disadvantaged" neighborhoods, mail is often stolen from mailboxes that have been popped open about 80 times with a screwdriver, and/or those mailman keys that open all 8 boxes at the top are floating around the 'hood anyway.
024 we used to see mail carriers in uniform with their bags drinking pitchers from noon 'til 5 and you wonder why the mail didn't come until midnight if at all. Used to be constant "man slumped over the wheel" calls and it was a passed-out mail carrier in his car full of mail, so you had to call a postal inspector to take custody and then they'd find the guy's whole garage stuffed full of undelivered mail.
Not confidence inspiring.
We all know how FedEx, UPS, etc. drivers are getting constantly hit in bad areas too, and package stealing off porches and walks has gotten to be a big sport everywhere.
Yes, a lot of elderly people will be made to suffer -- it's not just the meds, they can buy some groceries (milk that isn't two weeks expired) and other necessities there too. It's always like that.
So "the communty polices it sef."
The whole situation is nuts, big clampdowns on legitimate prescription drug customers inside the store -- funny how some of these "aides" they employ today snap gum and have gang tats and access to all your personal information -- with stamp bags and needles blowing all over the parking lot outside, Steel Reserve cans rolling around in the wind...at least 75 tunnels found under the Mexican border so far with little dope railroads running back and forth in them, electric light...and now illegals and smugglers coming through our existing fences with cutting torches, making holes literally big enough to drive trucks through.
No wall, no problem! Trucks are caught on camera brazenly driving through a hole in a 10ft high US-Mexico border fence created by smugglers using blowtorches
* Footage from November 2016 showing a border breach on the Mexico/Douglas, Arizona line has emerged
* Trucks from Mexico reportedly pour through the fence into the small town daily
* Smugglers cut a large hole in the border fence using blowtorches and created a makeshift gate through which to cross the country line
* Border Patrol agents say they continue to grapple with security problems from the Obama years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4265790/Agents-daily-border-fence-battle.html
...so here we are at the corner of crazy and crazier.
** Maybe the Ervin Family is squawking because of the land CVS sits on is leased...perhaps owned by an unknown entity with ties to the Ward? Hmmmmmm.
**
Would you believe there are other groups of fine citizens renting corner property thru a reit? The shuggie shug tax is gonna kill 'em.
It's called business STUPID!
Can't lose money just to have a place in da thieving hood!
CVS was supposed to keep this store open and left every junkie thief come in and take what the want, these stores in the ghetto lose money and the company knows this when they operate them but have to please the minority community and Alderthiefs.
Civilized Behavior Deserts
I'm gonna flip that Candy counter, grab everything I can, including the shit in the safe. Some have the safe at CVS others ya gotta hit that cooperate Shit
Either way, my corner gonna be Kickin
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Maybe Rahm should move in to their neighborhood & plant some more trees to make the neighborhood look prettier.. seems all he wants to do is plants trees.. does he own the tree company?
2/28/2017 12:45:00
Funny!
U ever been in Walgreens at 95th and Cicero lately? The OLDP are much more often then they were 10 years ago. It's 55th and Kedzie now. Thugs, Homeless not asking, but TELLING U how much money they want. Is there such thing as a $10 cup of coffee? I don't drink coffee, but I think that's a bit steep.
It's a shit show just like 55th and Kedzie
Clifton Ray Lee said."If they shut down the dope house on 33 rd street them im all for changes a shooby do to doo."
I'm sure that the City lawyers are much sharper than CVS's.
Idiots.
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