There’s a Walgreens on the corner I pass every morning between BART and the office. (There’s a Walgreens on most corners that haven’t already been occupied by a Starbucks.) And recently, every morning I have seen this sign, and every morning I experience a little twinge of awe.
All Walgreens are connected!
Are they like the Indian restaurants clustered on 6th street in New York’s East Village, long rumored to be connected via underground tunnel to one central kitchen?
Or is this connection more metaphysical — do the stores experience that oceanic feeling of connectedness that tells them, yes, they belong here, they are at home in the world?
I knew Walgreens was a chain. I didn’t know it was a great chain of being.
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Actually, this sign does solve a dilemma for me. What is the plural of Walgreens? I had considered such candidates as Walgreenses or Walgreensi, but now I know that Walgreens is like deer, which is the same in the singular and the plural.
I want to know if it’s true about those Indian kitchens or if you’re just slandering a lot of decent, sub-minimum wage kitchen slaves… No opinion on Walgreen’s, although it should be said that more than 50% of the pharmacists at my “neighborhood” Walgreen’s, CVS, Duane Reade, Rite-Aid etc. are of Indian origin. Anyway, I patronize only (the dwindling number of) local druggists.