Word: cvs
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Several businesses with prime Mass. Ave. storefronts such as C’est Bon and CVS have expanded their locations, along with Bob Slate, Cambridgeport Bank and Fleet Bank...
...takes a certain kind of person to use a cell phone in public—that is, a loud, ballsy and shameless kind of person. I, sadly, possess none of these characteristics. I once listened to a girl on a cell phone at CVS describe, in great detail, her epic quest to purchase the right deodorant. Is this the kind of intimate moment that cell phones allow us to share? I can’t help but feel that people are talking more, but saying less. When I see Cingular’s commercial for their new 5,300-minute...
...were up only about 3% compared with the same period last year--at the low end of its expectations. But many other retailers were hurt much worse. Wal-Mart just keeps gaining market share, not only from bankrupt discounter Kmart but also from grocers like Kroger, drugstore chains like CVS and electronics sellers like RadioShack...
This is why I have found trips to CVS so traumatic in recent weeks. I will half-recognize the songs that are playing—will hum absently as I compare the merits of various shampoos, will think, “Now where do I know this from?” as I give the cashier my ExtraCare card. But I will not be able to place the song until I step out into the December chill and realize with a start that the song was “What Child Is This?” rendered unrecognizeable...
...hate hearing “What Child Is This?” in CVS because it is a selfish rendition of a song that’s meant to be shared. Folk musician Pete Seeger says that singing has only recently become the province of professionals and stopped being an everyday way of expressing oneself. Christmas carols played in CVS worry me because they challenge the populism the song has retained in the Rooster Church in December, and thus the spirit of Christmas itself...