BATON ROUGE, La. -- The corner drug store has converted the busy intersection of Main Street USA into Drug Store Corner USA, according to the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report. It is all part of a turf war designed to cash in on the aging of America.
Eckerd, Walgreens and Rite Aid are the big players in Baton Rouge--and elsewhere in the U.S.--with 32 stores among them in that market. They battle each other, often from across the street, at prime “hard corners” all over the city, said the report. Gasoline stations and convenience stores once dominated those spots, but no longer.
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