Drugstore Quotations

There's an opportunity for the corner drugstore to play a much greater role. Pharmacists have been extremely well respected - they're one of the top two or three most-trusted professionals in opinion polls year after year.

I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.

As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.

The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought out of the drugstore once. The thing that struck me about it was that the ending wasn't an ending. It was essentially a cliffhanger. It was the first time I had ever read anything like that, where you read a book, but the book isn't the book.

My favorite drugstore product is Clean and Clear makeup removing cleanser. It gets the makeup off in one wash - not three or four.

From a strategic standpoint, this transaction will strengthen our presence in many of our existing markets across the country -- particularly in Northern and Southern California and the Southwest -- and enables us to enter important urban markets like Chicago and Philadelphia for the first time. Additionally, we will enter the stand-alone drugstore business for the first time.

My routine definitely starts with brows. I do add a little bit of mascara - even to the gym. I have to! I love Maybelline and Covergirl, just drugstore brands. I'm telling you, they're the best.

Penney offered a benign set of comments about Eckerd. While its department stores are doing a little better, Eckerd is deteriorating. The speculation is that Penney's first choice is to sell its drugstore business.

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.

Even though Albertson's down and the index is down from the 52-week high. Year to date, both the grocery industry and the drugstore industry are actually up. Year to date the grocery industry is up 9 percent and the drugstore industry is up about 12 percent and we've been seeing a lot of fear in the marketplace concerning interest rates and impact this will have on consumer spending. Consequently, there's been a lot of money that's been moving over to some of the staple companies like grocery chains and drugstore retailers.

There are lots of good products in the luxury lines at department stores and there are lots of junk. The same with the drugstore brands.

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.

I want to emphasize that Rite Aid is one of the top three drugstore chains in the U.S. and is fundamentally a very solid company.

His drugstore reminds me of those old apothecaries I'd visit as a kid. Everyone behind the counter knows you. You're more than just a number in a computer.

Canada cannot be the drugstore for the United States,

You will have people ... falling back on this idea we'll all just go to the drugstore in the morning and get a morning-after pill.

It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.

We have a lot of great vintage stores. I like shopping, in general, so I can simply go to a drugstore and shop.