Walgreens

Mm-hmm.

I had not heard this song at a CVS, Duane Reade, Walgreens-

Mm-hmm

... or the supermarket.

then I'm going to send you an invoice for that bill.

And then I'm going to go to, well, I'm actually going to go to Walgreens first to take a picture.

That's why my hair is done today.

For my passport.

They were delivering faked, highly inaccurate medical data to real, unsuspecting patients.

They were lying to Walgreens, they were lying to their heavyweight investors, and they were lying to federal regulators.

It took the incredible, tenacious investigative work of John Kerry Roo at the Wall Street Journal, aided by extremely brave whistleblowers inside the company, to finally tear the facade down.

In 2022, Holmes was found guilty of massive wire fraud and sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison.

I want to ask you a little bit about something that you have written in an essay that's kind of been stuck in my mind.

You wrote about something you experienced at a Walgreens when you observed a security guard apprehending a man for shoplifting.

And you wrote that observing that scene brought up a phrase that really strikes me, which is awakened trauma.

Like the idea that trauma is there, dormant, and a situation unbeknownst to us can just pop up and bring that up.

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to the Walgreens, the CVS, get it developed.

Are you ready for this? I bought, because I thought I was a cool mom, Amelia, actually all my kids, but Amelia, who's the most, disposable cameras for the summer.

So I'm like, take some.

I had like six and I was like, I bought them off Amazon.

And Amelia brought two of them to DC when we went on a trip this summer to DC.

So I take them to Walgreens, George, to get them developed.

Guess how long it takes now to get a disposable camera.

And I'm like in a panic.

And so I jumped from not going to the Walgreens and getting cortisone.

I went right to Dermataza.

I need a script.

And I'm like in a panic.

And so I jumped from not going to the Walgreens and getting cortisone.

I went right to Dermataza.

I need a script.

When I think back actually to my candy company, one of the things we did right was we were very intentional with our distribution.

And so, for instance, we were approached by Walgreens when they started to build out a natural candy set.

And they said that, you know, they wanted us in store.

And we were very unsure about the drug channel.

they're always trying to work in noon games, quality noon games to counter, um, the competition.

Why does one wrestling promotion run a show at the same time as the other wrestling promotion? Why does a Walgreens go up across the street from CVS? I mean, it's all the same.

I mean, you're trying to cut into the competition's success.

And Big Noon Kickoff on Fox with the Big Ten has been very successful.