
{"id":27134,"date":"2012-07-26T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=27134"},"modified":"2012-07-26T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:19:05","slug":"letter-carrboro-doesnt-need-cvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/07\/26\/letter-carrboro-doesnt-need-cvs\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Carrboro doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need CVS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an ex-professor who spends a great deal of time enjoying\u00c2\u00a0downtown Carrboro, I venture to add one more perspective:<\/p>\n<p>1. Not only\u00c2\u00a0do 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.<\/p>\n<p>2. In addition, aesthetically speaking, they are characterless, adding nothing but ugly parking lots, etc.<\/p>\n<p>3. But most importantly, what does CVS offer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in the age of Vioxx, ad nauseam \u00e2\u20ac\u201covermedicated iatrogenesis.<\/p>\n<p>Who needs it? Not Carrboro.<\/p>\n<p>William Manson<br \/>\n<em>Durham<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an ex-professor who spends a great deal of time enjoying\u00c2\u00a0downtown Carrboro, I venture to add one more perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27135,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27134\/revisions\/27135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}