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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
Shoppers Dog Fart? Ugliest signage in Canada, save for Jean-Coutu (where you will find it all; even a friend!!).
I also hate the obligatory detour through the cosmetics department. |
I call that detour the Shoppers Drug Mart Loop. While most locations have that setup, the one closest to me does not - they have the grocery department up front and the cosmetics is off to the side. You have to go through the grocery area to get to the pharmacy counter or the Canada Post counter.
About the cosmetics department. A neighbour of mine back in London worked for Big V, which was a pharmacy chain in Southwestern Ontario that operated for many years and was bought by Shoppers Drug Mart in 1997 (long before Loblaws got their hands on it). Big V was a pharmacy first and foremost, but they also had substantial gift departments. The stores were independently run and had much local management control, and were responsive to the neighbourhoods they were located in. When Shoppers moved in, their central management wanted to control what the local stores were selling, without any regard to the needs of neighbourhoods. My neighbour had to push hard to keep the gift department, but they kept reducing it to make room for more and more cosmetics. This store was located in an area with a large senior population, and the gift department was popular with the regulars who shopped there, but cosmetics weren't what they were looking for. Eventually my neighbour retired and the gift department was eliminated entirely - and a year later, Pharma Plus opened a pharmacy next door, substantially expanding only a couple years later.
I've always resented the Shoppers Drug Mart Loop because of how it was used to force my neighbour out of the company after they bought Big V.
Also, I don't understand why they added the blue oval thingy behind the logo. It seems so pointless.