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The South has kudzu and we have CVS

The Boston Real Estate Observer reports how the first-floor restaurant in some fancy-shmancy South End condo project is being replaced with a CVS.

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A CVS as my downstairs neighbor would be kind of cool. Run down whenever I need milk or a snack, very convenient. Plus, wouldn't decide to have a party at 11:30 on a weeknight.

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CVS is obviously trying to surpass Dunkin Donuts in a wreckless experiment to find out how many is too many. I only like the ones that are 24hrs. Otherwise, they're not offering anything unique at all. Like other drug store chains, their buildings, signs and facades are ugly. I wouldn't want one in my building.

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Starbucks was experimenting nationwide, CVS seems to be looking for the saturation point within a metro area.

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Well, I have heard that people are sicker in stressful times, and more people in MA have insurance now, and CVS can run medical clinics at some locations.

And also, in this economy, a concentration of numerous pharmacies makes it easier to obtain sufficient quantities of cold medicine for home cooking projects. Supporting cottage industry, if you will. How are they doing in the midwest? :)

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I think they have an evil plan to take business from the doctors with their clinics.

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The kind of business that doctors don't provide so well - such as flu shots and strep tests available during hours that working people can get them.

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What's wrong with the doctors at the CVS clinics taking away business from other (usually less cost-effective!) doctors in other settings? We still have a free market economy, right?

I'm not a physician, but am a healthcare provider, and I'm all for any sort of clinic that can get people in right away. The CVS clinic only deals with minor/routine stuff, which can take months to get treated at a regular doctor's office. In the case of my practice, I'd love it if there were walk-in psych/child development clinics where people could have their child checked out that same day and be told their kid was fine rather than waiting weeks for me to tell them the same. I'd still end up seeing the kids who have ongoing issues and need more specialized and long-term therapies.

The physicians I consult with say the same about wishing they weren't so bogged down with simple routine stuff that any nurse practitioner or physician could glance at and write a script for. This saves money too, especially with the stuff that one would normally visit an ER for. CVS Minute Clinic charges $62 to look over a sprained ankle and tell you to ice it and stay off it. The ER is going to charge thousands for this, and it will take hours to be seen. Again, free market economy.

List of services and prices: http://www.minuteclinic.com/en/USA/Treatment-and-C...

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in the long (or short, depending on who or what you ask) existence of human society there has never been such thing as a free market economy.

Except in Ayn Rand's novels--but they are classified under "fiction" for a reason.

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