Anonymous wrote:Did someone press a red button that activated the AU defense force? Pretty incredible series of defensive posts.

What does AU have to do with this?

Did someone press a red button that activated the AU defense force? Pretty incredible series of defensive posts.

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Anonymous wrote:A trade of Pleasant Pops for a CVS is a bad trade for the area. For workers and for consumers.

And CVS also has another unfair advantage over pleasant pops- most of CVS’ profit comes from their prescription drug business, and most of the goods they sell are just loss leaders.

So our messed up insurance system, which funnels profit to big health companies, also advantages CVS unfairly over local businesses.

I always thought of CVS as essentially being a large convenience store that only happens to have a pharmacy counter. And CVS stores often seem not even as clean as the average WaWa.

CVS was famously sued by the DC AG because they chronically sold expired food. Just did not care and did it for years and years and years.

Not sure why an 8-month-old popville post that literally (and lazily) just copies and pastes someone else's social media post and calls it news is noteworthy now. I mean, if Dan had followed up this post with some actual reporting, that would be one thing. But as usual he didn't so we're just speculating about a closed business 8 months after the fact?

Anonymous wrote:A trade of Pleasant Pops for a CVS is a bad trade for the area. For workers and for consumers.

And CVS also has another unfair advantage over pleasant pops- most of CVS’ profit comes from their prescription drug business, and most of the goods they sell are just loss leaders.

So our messed up insurance system, which funnels profit to big health companies, also advantages CVS unfairly over local businesses.

I always thought of CVS as essentially being a large convenience store that only happens to have a pharmacy counter. And CVS stores often seem not even as clean as the average WaWa.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A trade of Pleasant Pops for a CVS is a bad trade for the area. For workers and for consumers.

And CVS also has another unfair advantage over pleasant pops- most of CVS’ profit comes from their prescription drug business, and most of the goods they sell are just loss leaders.

So our messed up insurance system, which funnels profit to big health companies, also advantages CVS unfairly over local businesses.

It cannot possibly be anything other than market urbanism at work.

Smart Growth favors national chains over small independently owned businesses.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s just really too bad that Pleasant Pops in particular was forced out by their landlord.

They are the epitomization of what we should want in our neighborhoods— a small business, providing a social space, serving cool unique desserts, kid-friendly, with a small play area even.

Does anyone know the Pleasant Pops owners? What we should do is lobby the landlord to restore their lease at a fair rate.

Let’s take this a step further: we can pool our money together, buy the building from the current landlord, and lease it to Pleasant Pops at a fair rate

Or we could let Pleasant Pops move keep the space for free!

I think structural economic solutions to fix our unfair bias towards large corporations would be better.

We’d probably be better off showing up at the FTC and asking them to refocus on real antitrust to level the playing field for all businesses.

Anonymous wrote:It’s just really too bad that Pleasant Pops in particular was forced out by their landlord.

They are the epitomization of what we should want in our neighborhoods— a small business, providing a social space, serving cool unique desserts, kid-friendly, with a small play area even.

Does anyone know the Pleasant Pops owners? What we should do is lobby the landlord to restore their lease at a fair rate.

Let’s take this a step further: we can pool our money together, buy the building from the current landlord, and lease it to Pleasant Pops at a fair rate

Or we could let Pleasant Pops move keep the space for free!

It’s just really too bad that Pleasant Pops in particular was forced out by their landlord.

They are the epitomization of what we should want in our neighborhoods— a small business, providing a social space, serving cool unique desserts, kid-friendly, with a small play area even.

Does anyone know the Pleasant Pops owners? What we should do is lobby the landlord to restore their lease at a fair rate.

Anonymous wrote:CVS needs to be boycotted and picketed until they shut down.

Are you boycotting CVS? Are you picketing at CVSes?

CVS needs to be boycotted and picketed until they shut down.

It’s just crony capitalism — huge corporations have advantages local businesses don’t have, because huge corporations buy politicians and change the tax code to benefit them.

I think Mount Pleasant chased out a CVS. This area should do so too.

Anonymous wrote:A trade of Pleasant Pops for a CVS is a bad trade for the area. For workers and for consumers.

And CVS also has another unfair advantage over pleasant pops- most of CVS’ profit comes from their prescription drug business, and most of the goods they sell are just loss leaders.

So our messed up insurance system, which funnels profit to big health companies, also advantages CVS unfairly over local businesses.

It cannot possibly be anything other than market urbanism at work.

A trade of Pleasant Pops for a CVS is a bad trade for the area. For workers and for consumers.

And CVS also has another unfair advantage over pleasant pops- most of CVS’ profit comes from their prescription drug business, and most of the goods they sell are just loss leaders.

So our messed up insurance system, which funnels profit to big health companies, also advantages CVS unfairly over local businesses.

Sad news: Pleasant Pops in Adams Morgan/ Dupont closed a few months ago.

https://www.popville.com/2020/11/pleasant-pops-closing-adams-morgan/

The other businesses on the ground floor of the building are also closing or have closed, including Red White and Basil. But Mint Fitness is still operating on the top floor.

We heard from the Pleasant Pops owners that the owners of the building wanted to terminate the Pleasant Pops lease.

And I recently heard that a CVS is going in there. Makes sense: the owners don’t seem to be tearing down the building, and CVS would use the whole first floor.

Terrible news. There are CVS’s everywhere around DC— one is just five blocks away at 14th and W.
And big national corporations have an unfair advantage over local businesses, not least because of corrupt tax advantages that they gain via lobbying.