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LETTER: Carrboro doesn’t need CVS

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Staff

As an ex-professor who spends a great deal of time enjoying downtown Carrboro, I venture to add one more perspective:

1. Not only do big-box stores like CVS invariably bring with them problems like more traffic congestion, but they destroy small businesses owned and staffed by members of the town.

2. In addition, aesthetically speaking, they are characterless, adding nothing but ugly parking lots, etc.

3. But most importantly, what does CVS offer – to a community of real people? Superfluous, unnecessary trifles, for the most part: a huge aisle of hair conditioners, another of soft drinks, another of greeting cards. Consumer junk – really unworthy of a community that has a deservedly unique reputation. As for the pharmacy-part: Gone is the small, corner drugstore that offered maybe 50 needed drugs; instead, we’re in the age of Vioxx, ad nauseam –overmedicated iatrogenesis.

Who needs it? Not Carrboro.

William Manson
Durham

3 thoughts on “LETTER: Carrboro doesn’t need CVS”

  1. James Smith says:
    July 26, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    If CVS is going to offer “junk” that nobody will buy, then why not allow them to build the store and have it fail? It’d be a great space for someone to then lease at a substantially reduced rate (rather than build a building from scratch).

    Your “ex-professor” reasoning is flawed. CVS obviously believes that there’s enough business at it’s current location to warrant expanding; if it’s wrong, there’s no cost to the consumer for failing in it’s venture. Not only that, but Harris Teeter would probably expand its current operation in Carrboro, allowing more food and more diverse food to be stocked.

    It’s my belief that the author’s real gripe is seeing a successful business expand. Were you also against Weaver St Market expanding? If so, why?

  2. Stephanie Phillippi says:
    July 26, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    Carrboro DOES have a small,”corner”pharmacy exactly as Mr.Manson describes. Pharmacist Ben Cutrell is the best of what one might think is bye-gone. Carrboro Family Pharmacy is located in the Carrboro Plaza at NC 54 and W.Main Street,keeping local customers and the traditions of the “corner pharmacy” alive and well. I am not a paid spokesperson. I am a grateful, within walking distance, local customer.

  3. terri turner says:
    August 1, 2012 at 10:10 am

    Evidentally, the Carrboro CVS is one of the most heavily traveled store in the region, hence the need for expansion. What does that say about our citizenry? We say we support locally owned businesses, and we have a locally owned pharmacy, yet the CVS is so busy, they need to expand. I would much rather see the Carrboro Family Pharmacy expand.

    We are fortunate to have another option. Shift your shopping folks.

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