http://www.frugalyankee.com/node/446 Comments for "Rite-Aid, Way Wrong" en http://www.frugalyankee.com/node/446 <!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>There are many positive things about living in a small New Hampshire town. Rural life is enjoyable. The changing seasons add variety to life. Stress is the tension on a rope. People know you.</p> <p><img src="http://www.frugalyankee.com/files/Rite_Aid.jpg" align="left" hspace="10" width="120" height="120"></p> <p>ON the downside, people know you. There a smaller choices. This is particularly true when it comes to shopping. Sometimes you have to drive tens of miles to find a store. In my town there is one pharmacy. It is a Rite-Aid. It used to be a Brooks, but I guess they got bought out.</p> <p>As I have gotten older, but not wiser, I have started taking drugs. Hypertension, Type II diabetes have taken their toll. So my has me popping pills a couple of times a day. Rite-Aid fills them out.</p> <p>About a month ago, I got a package from Rite-Aid. It was all about my diabetes and the products and services they were offering. All neatly packages with a variety of strategic relationships. Glucose monitors, new drugs and all sorts of stuff being hawked to me.<br /> <img src="http://www.frugalyankee.com/files/pharmacy_tech.gif" align="right" hspace="10" width="120" height="120"><br /> What? </p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><p><a href="http://www.frugalyankee.com/node/446">read more</a></p> http://www.frugalyankee.com/node/446#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:23:51 -0400 Garen Daly 446 at http://www.frugalyankee.com