Word: stores
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ‘68, who used to shop at Leavitt and Peirce as an undergraduate, remembers that his roommate, a member of the crew team, would refer to the store for rowing practice schedules...
...Lewis, who says he dabbled in cigarettes and pipes in college, stopped smoking shortly thereafter. But he says he continues to shop at the store for non-tobacco products and recently purchased political playing cards as Christmas stocking stuffers...
...exactly the same, with the same pipe, sign, and logo outside,” says Reed, a regular smoker. She adds that “it’s a great store, for smokers and non-smokers, because you can get stuff you cannot get anywhere else in a regular CVS,” noting the store’s unique lighters, pipes, and ashtrays...
...Landlords get greedy, and they make it really impossible for a neat individually owned store to make a go of it,” MacDonald says. “So you get corporate chains that come in and are backed by corporate money, and they probably don’t even make a profit...
...Nevertheless, MacDonald says his store is “doing okay,” and that his revenue may be less affected by the economic slump than by daily weather conditions and tourism in the Square. He also notes that in recent years, Square landlords have started taking into account the long-term diversity of the community when choosing tenants, rather than simply looking for the biggest profit...