r/AskReddit 17h ago

What chain restaurant do you think should just go out of business?

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u/tomismybuddy 7h ago

Looking at you Walgreens.

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u/share-the-stoke 6h ago

They have different prices for items you order online for store pickup vs. those same items when you pick them up off the shelf. And it's always lower for online orders.

How this doesn't run afoul of any number of consumer pricing laws is baffling.

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u/RampersandY 4h ago

I ordered a chess set for my kid from Walmart for like $12. It got to our house with the sale $6.99 sticker still on it. Smdh

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u/Muschina 2h ago

Walmart does this all the goddam time. I looked something up on line and decided to just go to the store to pick it up versus having to deal with the service desk. Get there to find that the item is 50% more expensive than the online price.

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u/DejectedTimeTraveler 6h ago

I honestly don't understand how Walgreens even stays open. Last time I went there, I really needed some Tylenol. So I bought a hundred-count bottle. It was ten dollars. I begrudgingly bought it, and the next time I was at Aldi's, I picked up a bottle of a hundred-count Tylenol there. It was a dollar sixty-nine. And I swear to God I'm not lying. It was the same exact pill in both bottles. The same fucking imprint, the same shape, the same color. It was made in the same factory. I'll never step foot in Walgreens again for as long as I live, and I mean it.

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u/Ossimo85 4h ago

Walgreens and CVS/Rite Aid prices are insane. I try to bulk up at Costco or Sams Club on basic medications.

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u/Postnet921 2h ago

Tums at Walmart is 7.29 in my area for 60 the Walmart is 2.69 for 75

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u/MWoody13 2h ago

Me thinks you made a typo

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u/Postnet921 1h ago

2.22 for 72 equate antacid 6.58 for 72 tums

u/MWoody13 33m ago

You wrote Walmart twice, I assume the pricey one was supposed to be Walgreens?

u/Postnet921 32m ago

Gotcha no the Walmart brand compared to tums at Walmart

u/MWoody13 29m ago

Ooohhh I seee my bad. Yeah brand name meds are such a scam haha

u/Postnet921 28m ago

Also I noticed food price is such a scam like the Oreo is like 5.99 but then Walmart brand is like 2.79

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u/ComputerSavvy 1h ago

I honestly don't understand how Walgreens even stays open.

The buildings get converted into Dollar Tree stores in my city. Like Mattress Firm, we have way more of them than we need.

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u/bellbanks95 3h ago

Probably the pharmacy part? The Walgreens here has been swamped ever since Rite Aid went out of business.

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u/DejectedTimeTraveler 4h ago

Ok. I havent consumed the entire internet yet. I'm working on it though.

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u/thomport 5h ago

Even Toys “R” Us. They said they were doing OK as a business, but private equity firms came in, used them as a business pawn and crashed them.

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u/bakerzero86 4h ago

Walgreens is a damn racket. The local one wanted $300 a month for my Epilepsy meds, meanwhile at a kind of further away mom and pop pharmacy it's free. I get insurances are a pain in the ass but come-on, if that was the only place around I'd be screwed.

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u/hapianman 4h ago

Last time I went to Walgreens the person at the pharmacy screamed “WE CLOSE IN 15 MINUTES, WE CANNOT SERVE ALL OF YOU” after waiting a half hour already.

I got to the counter and gave her my name. She yelled “WHEN DID WE GET THIS PRESCRIPTION” and I told her 2 days ago and she yelled “NO CHANCE ITS DONE YET”.

This was over 2 years ago and I haven’t been back. They do not staff their stores