We're all used to mega-stores at this point, but there's something novel (and a bit quaint) about a drugstore-sized store where you can also buy a giant TV and mail a letter. Well, you can't do that last part right now since their postal service has been on strike for weeks (making it appropriate that it's closed in this picture), but that's not the point. I imagine London Drugs would have had a more elaborate TV display back in the 90s, but they still have a fairly decent selection.
Actually, the Canadian labour minister ordered Canada Post employees to return to work yesterday so I reckon this postal desk will be open if it is still around. I'm sure there will be a large dose of animosity though!
ReplyDeleteI spot some CDs for sale in this image! It isn't much, but it is probably still way more than what you'd find at CVS or Walgreens. In fact, those two probably don't have any CDs at all, aside from blank CD-Rs, because I don't think they sold music even back in the 1990s.
I know that Kroger's SupeRx and other 1970s drug chains did have small electronics departments, even those were nothing like what this London Drugs has now, much less what they had some years ago. Drug stores certainly did have large camera departments back in the day when film photography was still really the only way to take photos, but London Drugs goes well beyond that even. It is neat to see, and sad that we don't have anything similar here!
Oops -- I guess I was one day out of date! I did look for updates, but I guess I missed it.
DeleteBy 2020s standards, London Drugs does have a decent physical media section (by which I mean they sell any sort of physical media at all, something that's getting harder to find at non-specialty stores!). I don't remember drugstores around here ever having significant physical media beyond a few books and magazines, and perhaps the occasional DVD, but I suppose it makes more sense for London Drugs to have this stuff since they sell you the devices to play them!
It sounds like there will still be a hearing before Canada Post employees are ordered to return back to work, but the expectation is that they'll be ordered to return back this week sometime, probably towards the beginning of the week.
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