RCS 261 Intro to Consumer Retailing

CVS Pharmacy is a huge drug store seen on almost every main street in the United States, but also in other countries around the world. This particular retailer definitely falls under the category identity drug store or convenience store.

The particular CVS Pharmacy store I located and will talk about is the store in my home town of Concord, North Carolina. There are little disadvantages I see for this particular store when looking at the retailer as a whole. It does great business and I believe this store will be around for a long time.

Some advantages to this store are first off the location, as this is the most important thing to deciever when deciding how and when to put up any store. It is located right at a four-way stop light, with a growing area of small shopping stores, such as a Harris Teeter and Coffee Shops. The parking and entrance to the store is also great, with three ways to enter and exit in the same place.The neighborhoods that cohabitat are literally right down the road on the right and left, and this helps with business for all those family's needing quick convenience items, such as medicine and women's items. For me, this CVS has saved me more than one time, and I am extremely thankful to have such a clean, well-stocked store less than a mile from my house!

Some things that are troublesome to the location of this CVS store has to be the fact that there is a Walgreen's across the road from them, which happens often, but no one really knows the detremental effects is has on the store itself. I often get junk mail from both Walgreen's and CVS about the same promotional deals, and Walgreen's often outweighs CVS. I believe the location of this CVS Pharmacy is perfect, and without it I would definitely be lost in my little town of Concord!