from a local blog: " CVS - Fortress or Pharmacy?"

[yorkiemommie1]

http://theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/fortresspharm.html

In a police state, one of the first signs that things are going seriously wrong is when the government starts building fortresses in the heart of populated areas. The giant cement edifices can serve a number of purposes – prisons, police stations, military bases, arms storage – but in the end they all end up conveying a single message. This is the government telling you, in the language of architecture, that you have no chance against the iron will of the state. And every time another one of these buildings go up near a school, by a shopping center, on a major highway or near a tract of homes and apartment buildings, that message is made even clearer.

So, already aware that the big buildings had been going up all over Los Angeles and the South Bay for the last few years, I wondered what to think when construction started on one just a few blocks from my home. Was the government closing in? Was this a place to stockpile weapons for the civil war? Would troops stomp out the front door of this place and march in the streets? Was this a prison to house dissidents from my neighborhood?

Actually, it meant none of these things. It was just a new CVS drugstore going in.

Of course, I'm exaggerating my state of panic, but one has to admit that there is an oddly consistent aesthetic at play with the new chain drugstores, one that is nothing short of ... totalitarian. These don't look like buildings where one can buy toothpaste, greeting cards, batteries and birth control pills. No, they look like the kind of places where people are taken after men with dark masks break into their homes and drag them away.....

[TlalocW]

1. So that's a CVS

My sister in Kansas City robs those places blind with her coupons. I think she's bought $5000 woth of stuff this year for less than $800.

TlalocW

[yorkiemommie1]

3. i'm going to check out those ads!

we used to have a CVS years ago and now they're coming back.

[SharonAnn]

2. Here someone broke in one recently. Through the brick wall in back,

to steal drugs.

The reason they're so "unfiendly" is because of the drugs. That's the reason.

[InsultComicDog]

4. lol

CVS is my favorite drugstore

[Berry Cool]

5. It's gotta be like a fortress these days.

Gotta keep all those people from stealing that pseudoephedrine you now have to ask for because it's part of the meth-making recipe.

One of my sisters was sick a while back, and had to buy Sudafed or something like it. She was surprised they would only sell her two boxes at a time. I told her, that's why. Any more and they think you're setting up a meth lab. Insane.