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| - Liquor... On The Side Below?
Going in here was a purely fact finding, prime directivey type mission. I had to observe, I even put my shades on at night.
I have seen the flow chart of alcohol questions to clerks on the strip faar too many times. It goes like this: "Is there any store we can buy booze like the way we do back home?" (It's called buying package liquor.)
"What about-" "no, casino shops are too expensive." "Well then-" "We don't want to gamble to get one." "Well, there's-" "We want booze cheaper than a casino bar."
And then there's Walgreen's, recently gaining another location on the strip every few months, to go for their cut of casino booze business. "But they're more expensive than back home?! Or even off-Strip locations!"
Yes, they are. Your liquor store back home sits on a piece of land whose entire county isn't as valuable as a retail space on the Las Vegas Strip. And this mother's a duplex! This is what you have to pay if you didn't plan front loading a cooler for your vehicle or room before you went to the Strip.
Believe it or not, the messenger is often verbally berated as so many exit ports of mammals, instead of their CEO preying on casino guests, or casinos themselves being the "chosen predators" of their patrons. Comes with the territory of The Strip I say. A bottle of water is $3, just like a beer off strip not even 2 miles away. Locals be all front loading! Yes. All you gotta do is plan a little.
I checked out the register staff, there were no people stocking. So I went to my browsing, to see what they had. If you know me, you know my love hate relationship with this chain. If not, it's best told over drinks with pieces of fruit skewered by novelty swordpicks.
The store was busy and in disarray when I was there. They arrange the checkout lines that Fry's Electronics made popular. Retail had sex with a bank by the dumpster and spawned this type of line. It does herd cattle thru a lot faster. And nothing puts me in a red seeing rage like watching a long line progress faster than the 1 person in front of us style check outs.
For a pharmacy, there are a few new novelties they're trying out. I know that the busiest locations in the chain are in fact those on The Strip, so they get all the flagship-y experimental frills. This location has a walk in beer/ wine cooler that's pretty coo. They also have a bartender type information screen, so you can find out what's in a drink or what you can make with their (not necessarily in stock) selection.
They do have one thing that tugs at my nostalgia strings: Icees! I grew up on Icee Bear, saving all the coupons to get logo stuff in the mail. Most of their locations disappeared with K-Marts. To me, I can always count on those in Walgs as much as the ice cream @ Thrifty's.
They got all the basics that may in fact still cheaper than Strip casino stores. Definitely a bigger selection in a pinch. People debate this chain with CVS. Basically, it all boils down to what we're closest to when we need birth con- uh, sundries. Every pharmacy on the strip has the same problems from what I've seen, for over a decade. Personally, given a choice I actually prefer ABC over both. They have a cooler (Hawaiian influenced) selection in most categories.
I saw what I needed to see. I didn't find who I was looking for, so I was off to Twin Boobs. Uh perkys. Uh, Titty Peaks. Uh. To get a beer. More expensively. In the week I went, I got 2 of the best news I had in years. Surprisingly it was not from a busty bartender, but another customer..
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