October 21, 2024 • 23 mins
Why are pharmacies closing? Whats your go-to pharmacy / Big Retail stores closing. Citadel Outlet Christmas tree arrives. Powerball winner in Lake Elsinore / Birthday Alerts. Last Kmart Store closing because of shrinkage
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. All right, Dodgers,
I think we're done with them. We've been talking about
them for an hour. First game is Friday. You'll enjoy that.
Here's some bad news for pharmacy lovers. Maybe you're a
Walgreens guy or gal. Maybe you're a right Aid CVS.
(00:23):
That's another big one. A lot of more closing though,
going out of business. What's going on is Amazon putting
everybody out of business? Are people going to Walmart?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Costco? I think you can. I'm pretty sure. I'm positive.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Actually, even if you're not a member at Costco, you
can use the pharmacy for free. I think that's still there.
The rule of thumb over there. So I think they're
drawing a lot of business away and these poor pharmacies.
And I've been going since I was a kid. It
was save on drug store, thrifty drug store maybe remember
that he used to be one on Balboa and ventur
(00:59):
We used to go to all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Huge, huge store thrifty.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
There's another Thrifty on Laurel Canyon and Ventura another big
one there, but they're all disappearing, and it's sad because
I'm a big Walgreens right aid CVS fan.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I love them all.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I love to just go in there and mostly clothes
shopping at CVS. I bought myself a couple of nice
shirts at CVS. They don't fit like you know shirts
you buy at Macy's or Nordstroms, but they're less expensive.
That's key. But let's find out what's going on with
(01:36):
these pharmacies. They're going out of business.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Man a major shakeup at CVS Health not CEO Karen
Lynch suddenly replaced at the nation's biggest pharmacy chain.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Healthcare so personal to you and me. Yeah, that you
can't lose sight of that human connection facing financial struggles
under her leadership.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Wait wait, wait, let's go back here.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
At the nation's biggest pharmacy change.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Okay, the biggest pharmer chain pharmacy chain is CVS.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Now what did she say about it?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Healthcare so personal to you and may.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Okay, I don't know that CBS has the dock in
a box. You can go in there and you know,
have them look at a boil or I don't know,
maybe you got a rash, maybe you're not feeling well.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And what is that?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The CVS has a minutic clinic, I think they call it,
and there you go. Yeah, and if it's for people
who don't really have a lot of time to spend
on their health, you know you got well, you got
a minute, that's all you really have. You've locked off
a minute out of your schedule to go see if
you have a brain cancer.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And so when she said.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Healthcare so personal to you and me, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I don't know how personal it is when you're going
into a drug store to see if you're dying.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
It's odd that you can't lose sight of that human connection.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Facing financial struggles under her leadership.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
By the way, this woman.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Healthcare so personal to you and me that you can't
lost site of that human connection.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, I would go back to the pharmacy and see
if they've got a jug of those antidepressants. Darling, I
think you're on the verge of wild depression if you're
not already in it already. This sounds like bedridden, white
heat depression.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
That you can't lost site of that human connection.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Bang, she's down facing financial struggles under her leadership. CVS
is on track to close nine hundred of its nearly
ten thousand locations.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No way, I know Burbank is going to be a
victim because we got CVS's that are too close to
each other. We've got one on Olive and for Dugo
and another one on for Dugo and Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Way.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I guarantee you one of them's going away. I don't
know which one, but one of them is going away.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
In its three year plan and cut about three thousand
corporate jobs.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh that's horrible. We got to save these cvss somehow.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't know. I don't know how to save them.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Maybe I take carpet out of the cold and flu aisle.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I always found that odd.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know, people are going there who are really sick
to buy their own flu and cold medication, and there's
carpet on the floor.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yikes.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Industry wide and estimated seven thousand pharmacies here.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Do you ever do that? When you go to a
belly you're a big fan?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
What do you have?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Walgreens? Right aid, CBS kind of gal Where do you hang?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
I am a CVS Walgreens rotationer. Oh you are yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
thank you? I enjoy both all right, do you I
do this?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I purposely avoid the cold and flu aisle. Do you
do that?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I don't know if you can.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You should, I don't know if you can. That's where
the sickest people in there are going.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh, that's where the lingers lay at.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Yeah, sometimes cold and flu family members that are picking
it up for the sick.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
So you're okay.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Sometimes sometimes go for it. I wouldn't go for it.
I would avoid those aisles. Like you can go into footwear.
You know where your bunions or your boils, whatever you
got working.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can go into that area.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You're not going to get bunions or boils from shifting
through the doctor's shoals.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Crap.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But if you go over to flu and cold, that's
where all the germs are in that place, that's where
the germs live.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
And you don't think that I avoid old people are
walking through the doctor's shoals.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
No no, no, no, they walk through. They don't linger.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
They linger in the flu and cold asle because they
look at prices on everything.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Ah, that's too much. I don't know about this. What
does this have? Is this ampm?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I can't tell what this thing. And while they hang there.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
All their flu and cold germs are flying around that area.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Avoid those aisles. Be safe.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Industry wide and estimated seven thousand pharmacies have already shuddered
in the last five years.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Seven thousand, seven thousand. And these are beautiful people in
beautiful pharmacies. I love Walgreens, I love Write eight and CVS.
I'm a big fan. And I don't know how to
save them.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Walgreens just this week announced a twelve hundred of its
remaining stores could soon close. Oh what, Walgreens just this
week announced twelve hundred of its remaining stores could soon close.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
They used to have two women who are cashiers at
the one on Hollywood Way and for Dugo, both in
their eighties, beautiful women. One of them was Betty, I
canmemeber the other. I think Anne was the other one.
And they used to argue all the time, kind of
the attraction and going. You know, two ladies arguing with
one another. And then I think your name was Betty
or Beatrice, and you would pay for something. Let's say
(06:46):
you're buying something for sixteen dollars, you give her a
twenty and then she would give you four ones back,
but that thumb, Betty's thumb, went into Betty's mouth, licked
that thumb and then peeled off four ones to you,
And you're like, yo.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You just wow, sweetie.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
There are twelve thousand bottles of stuff in this store
that were made for that exact ailment, which is dryness.
This story, CBS is filled with lotions and potions and
ointments and salvs for dry skin.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's what you got. You got dry skin? God, dang,
you need a salve.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh man, I don't pay for I don't pay for
anything in cash anymore because I can't stand getting those
dollars back after they stick that thumb in the mouth
and peel off four four dollars for you. Oh, I
don't know. A lot of people are stopped paying cash.
There's feces on I think it was ninety six percent
of dollar bills. Feces, actual human feces a ninety six
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percent of dollar bills.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
That changes at all based on the the denomination of
the bill.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I think there's probably less species on one hundred. Oh
who knows. Rich people are a holes doll.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
They're more likely to white with a bill that's right
and right.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Aid filed for bankruptcy last year.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Older demographics they want to sit down with the pharmacists,
understand the medicine.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Younger demographics they.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Don't want to interact with farmsis.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
They want their medicine and get out, and they want
it cheap and they want to hit their doorstep.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
What does a pharmacy look like when it comes to
getting your medication? In five years, you could have potentially
twenty five thirty percent less pharmacies in the next two
to three years than are today.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's over, it's over.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The retail closures are creating even more drug store deserts.
That has Amazon.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I've never heard that term before. Drug store desert.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
The retail closures are creating even more drug store desert.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Drug store desert comes after we started hearing food door deserts.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, yeah, drug store deserts. That has Amazon Pharmacy taking
flights testing prescription drone delivery in Texas with plans to
open pharmacies in twenty more cities next year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You know, eventually it just coulda be all Amazons. So
get used to it. That's where we're going and I'm
it's sorry, sorry, I We'll only tell our great grandkids
what drug stores were like, because there won't be any.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
When you could actually walk up to someone and talk
to them about an issue you're having. Yeah, that's the
best part of having the pharmacists there when you walk
in there is you can get a little bit of
advice about what's better than what.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, but they're always on that stage. They're always on
a platform like they're better than I am.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I don't like that.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Oh, you're you're a different one than I go to.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You only get pharmacists and guys who work at porno
stores on that platform.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You know, they think they're better than you. Threw the
curtain in the back well.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
The guy in the porno store, he's got to keep
an eye on everybody. You know, guys stealing wangs in
Aisle three, but the pharmacist.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
On the library put it down. The pharmacist, the porno guy.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Oh, both on stage, different backgrounds, all creditator accreditations, but
on stage, all.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Dealing with people that just want to feel better.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I guess so, I guess. So I'm gonna miss them.
I'm gonna miss them when they leave. Oh yeah, especially
the guys that work at these stores.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty. We're back, baby, Ah.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
We've had some computer problems here at home. Maybe you
noticed where we were off the air for ten minutes
and then we started playing old shows.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So we're back. What was the problem, Robin?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You know more than I do about computers and radio stations.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
What happened? Next Gen busted up?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
It was first it was next Gen, and then it
was the computer, and then it was the whole entire thing.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Was everything anything caught on fire. I saw the smoke
coming out of there. I thought we were in.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Trouble, something about an essays card.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Okay, all right, is the the the fan is now
blowing my way?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Can you turn it back the other way? Because that
smoke is toxic.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I don't know what the hell happened in there, but
got almighty. Smells like somebody's cooking in there.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
All right, we're back. We're back, baby, dig dog.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's the first time that's happened since I've worked here KFI.
We've never been off the air for you, but for me,
we've never been off the air since I've worked at KFI,
not once, not a single time. And we're back back
in time to see the big Christmas tree being dropped
off of the citadel.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I love it. Did you see that on the news?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yes, it's so excited.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's like a seventy foot tree that gave up its
life or cheap shoppers.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Oh, don't put it that way.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Well how else to put it?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I don't know, you know, but that that tree gave
up its life and now we get to go look
at it. You've been a citadel for holiday shopping? Yes, Oh,
isn't spectacular.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Do you know they have like it's snows.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I think they do it nightly for a certain amount
of time where they'll have snow once the holiday season kicks.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Is a right?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Oh wow, all right. I didn't know that, but man,
that's citadel. They do it right. And they got a
lot of parking, a lot of different shops. I do
get lost in there though, I can't find out, Like
I never have my bearings in there. I'm like, I
don't know where I'm parked, and did I go to
this shop or not?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But I do like that citadel and they got the
Christmas tree arrived last night. I think it's a seventy
footer man, that's a big ass tree. And how'd they
get it down here? Where they get it?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And how do you get it? Do you helicopter it
out of the place where they cut it down? I
don't know. I don't know the details, but i'd like
to know. I'd like to find out. All Right, we're
back on the air. Sorry for the delay. We are
back though. We're back baby, and you actually are in
great shape because we have a powerball story for you here.
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Powerball is powerball ticket in Lake Elsinor. If you bought
a ticket in Lake Elsinor, somebody is walking around with
a ticket where two hundred and forty three thousand dollars.
As the jackpot grows, it's a lot of dough to find.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Marl's Powerball drackpot has jumped to a whopping four hundred
and fifty six million dollars wow pty one yesterday's drawing.
But someone in Lake Elsinor bought a winning ticket with
five numbers with more than two hundred and forty three
thousand dollars. Those winning numbers seven, sixteen, nineteen, forty five,
sixty four. The powerball was twenty five. The odds of
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matching all five numbers, and the power BALLZ remains one
in about two hundred and ninety three million.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You know what this is?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
A number five the odds, the number that a lot
of people play for the power ball twenty five. You
know why people play number twenty five? Bell, you have
any idea why people play number five? Number twenty five?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Because it's my birthday?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Ooh?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Is it really?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Twenty fifth of one April. Okay, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I didn't know your birthday.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I didn't. No, I didn't know. It's gonna be the
greatest birthday ever. Love birthday. I know the twenty five
people play for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's Jesus Christ's birthday since Yeah, December twenty fifth, Jesus Christ, Yeah,
December twenty fifth, yours April twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yes, okay, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No, you won't. That's okay.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Do you have an alert in your phone for people's birthdays?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Yeah, it's called I text you and tell you it's
myth No, I do, but for some reason they for
it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I'm doing it wrong.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I've missed a lot of people's birthdays, and I'm like,
I said, an alarm for that?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Facebook?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh? Facebook, does that.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Wait, you can have a Facebook alert like you It'll
pop up and say, Hey, it's John's birthday or Steve's birthday.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yeah, that's how I do it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Is that right kind of cheating?
Speaker 6 (14:49):
I guess yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I keep forgetting my best friend's birthday.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So yeah, but you know, you know what I think
is pretty vacant, and I'm not a big fan of
is when it pops up on Facebook that it's someone's
birthday and you send them a text and they send
you a text thank you. It seems flat. It seems
like there's no feeling or emotion there. You're just going
through the you know, the motions and the moves. You
(15:15):
heard it on Facebook. Send them a text, Maybe you
send them a Facebook post happy birthday. Hey I heard
on Facebook it's your birthday. Oh thanks for the Facebook acknowledgment.
Happy birthday to you two.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I appreciate that they took that extra step. Is something
to them that they took the extra step?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Do you do you mind it when people attack you
with gifts?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Not at all.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
You don't, but you know what they don't. So it's
a wait, I get attacked. I know you do.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, for some reason, you don't want to get attacked,
and yet you get attacked. And I wouldn't mind being attacked.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
But I can't, am I the only guy you know
that finds getting a gift is an attack? The only
really you've never heard that before ever, is that right?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So never in your life, in your you know, thirty
forty whatever you know you're rolling this week? Yeah, whatever
your whatever your age is, you've never heard of anybody saying, oh,
I got attacked for my birthday.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
What happened? Oh somebody gave me a gift? Attack?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
No, you were the first and only person that does.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, it's odd, it's odd, all right, But I've been
I was attacked by a couple of people, and I
immediately attacked back.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I attack back. I find it offensive, and I attack
right back. All right? Today, this weekend's the birthday though, Bellyo.
You always enjoyed Marongo.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I love Marina. Yes, we're excited.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
We're gonna have so much fun, and you're gonna be
down there early. John want to be watching college football.
He wake up on Sunday watch more.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Football, but he has to go to the poker room. First.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Oh, that's right. He loves poker.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yes, yeah, right, what's your first stop.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I try to put the all the luggage in the room,
and I hit the slots pretty hard.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, you do like the slots.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And and then when the party's over, I like wandering
off on my own to hit the slots.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
We know, yeah, we'll stay away from me.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Okay. I didn't ask for it. This day with me,
I just enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I told you last year, was it? Last year? We
were walking.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
A bunch of us were walking through the main room
and I saw you. A couple of us saw you
over on a slot machine, and they started to go
over there.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
And I grabbed their jack.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Leave them alone. It's the one night I can get
out and gamble. I got one night man, one night.
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Dodgers are the big story here in Los Angeles, huge,
huge story going to the World Series starting Friday, and
you can hear all the games on AM five seventy.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
All the games are.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
We talked a little bit about grocery stores, not grocery stores,
drug stores closing. You got your CVS's, Walgreens right Aids,
And before then it was save on drug store, thrifty
drug store, and they all seem to be going away.
But it's not just drug stores, major retailers closing up
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shop and a lot of people, maybe you're one of them.
You thought, well, people stealing is no big deal, so
you didn't report it, you didn't do anything about it.
I don't blame you. You know, why should you get killed
over some guys stealing a rake? You shouldn't, but because nobody,
not enough people did anything about it. One of the
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reasons why these stores are closing is shrinkage.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well they call that. You just call it, you know,
people stealing.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Now they call it shrinkage, people stealing, people getting a
better deal online. People uh, you know, not thrilled to
go out anymore because of crime. A lot of things
are adding up here in the wrong direction, and so
a lot of these stores are going to close down.
And it saddens me because there's nobody on this station
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and maybe nobody in radio who likes these stores more
than I do. I'm a consumer. I'm a consumer. I
love consuming. I love going into the stores looking around.
I do that with my wife, my daughter. We go
to Target, and that's like a highlight of my of
my week. It's a weird thing. I'll admit that. I
get in the car, my wife gets in the car,
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and we go to the Target, the Empire Center, and
when they go into Target, I go to Low's for
a half hour look around, and I meet them up
at Target and we finish shopping up at Target. You know,
sometimes you don't get a lot. Sometimes we get, you know,
plenty of stuff. But I just love walking around the stores.
I don't know what it is. Maybe my grandparents, we're
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big fans of doing that. They used to love K Mart.
My grandma used to call it K Marx. I don't
know why. Let's got a K Marx. How do you
spell it? K M A r x K. Yeah, it's
got a K marks. And we'd loved going to Kmart.
We used to sit in Kmart at their little coffee
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shop in the back, you know, French fries, coke. I
don't know, maybe split a burger and wait for that
blue Light special to come on. And they would announce
blue light special now on Aisle five men's socks, like, oh,
let's go take a look at that. And we'd walk
over to the blue Light Special and for you people
who are too young to remember what a blue light
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special was. They had a blue light that looked like
they had the light you'd see on top of a
police car, old fashioned cop car. They and it would
be on wheels and they would tow it around the
store in every half hour, every twenty minutes, they'd say
blue light special in sporting goods, and then you would go.
You'd see the blue light from where you were eating
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at the coffee shop, and you'd walk towards the blue light.
And for while that blue light was going on, there
was a special on whatever product it was next to,
and sometimes it's twenty thirty forty percent off. Great idea,
and why they got rid of it.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
You know what's really funny is they got rid of
it for a while. And I just put in blue
light special in Google and one of the articles news
articles that came up was from twenty to fifteen, but
back nine years ago, where it said Kmart brings back
the blue light special back in twenty nineteen, twenty fifteen,
So apparently it didn't work.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I enjoyed it, but a lot of retailers shutting down
over the weekend.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
You may have heard the last full sized kmart, Superstar
closed forever. Goodbye blue light specials, Hello, empty parking lots.
Hello that sad outline of the giant red k that
used to hang on buildings all over America. There used
to be more than two thousand kmarts in America, used
to be.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
But what happened?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Because it's not only km arts that have been closing,
a lot of stories have been closing.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Consider some of these other big names.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Dollar Tree, nearly one thousand stores, big lots, around five
hundred stores.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I love all these stories.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I'm a freak for these stores, these dollar stores, Dollar General,
Dollar Store, ninety nine cent store, Dollar King.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Five below, Oh, five below is a little pricey for me,
is it? Yeah? Out of your budget?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I think five below is more for kids.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
You know, you don't see a lot of good like
hardware there or I don't know, it's a weird thing.
I can't figure it out. But five below seems kitchy
or yeah, I guess there's like a I don't even
know what it is, but.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It's a great store for stocking stuffers.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, Temu store basically, yes, yes, I think Bellio nailed it.
Stocking stuffers. Yeah, but I'm not stuffing stocking.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
But they do have some cleaning supplies as well.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, but not as not like the Dollar King or
Dollar General.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
You know the dollar you know the ninety nine cent
stores on Victory and Buena Vista. They went out of business,
but guess what opened Dollar store? Dollar Stores. We're back
in business. We're back in the game, back in the game.
Or we'll come back and finish on why these stores
are closing. It's a really bad time for retail in
the United States. Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
I am six forty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. All right, Dodgers,
I think we're done with them. We've been talking about
them for an hour. First game is Friday. You'll enjoy that.
Here's some bad news for pharmacy lovers. Maybe you're a
Walgreens guy or gal. Maybe you're a right Aid CVS.
(00:23):
That's another big one. A lot of more closing though,
going out of business. What's going on is Amazon putting
everybody out of business? Are people going to Walmart?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Costco? I think you can. I'm pretty sure. I'm positive.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Actually, even if you're not a member at Costco, you
can use the pharmacy for free. I think that's still there.
The rule of thumb over there. So I think they're
drawing a lot of business away and these poor pharmacies.
And I've been going since I was a kid. It
was save on drug store, thrifty drug store maybe remember
that he used to be one on Balboa and ventur
(00:59):
We used to go to all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Huge, huge store thrifty.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
There's another Thrifty on Laurel Canyon and Ventura another big
one there, but they're all disappearing, and it's sad because
I'm a big Walgreens right aid CVS fan.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I love them all.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I love to just go in there and mostly clothes
shopping at CVS. I bought myself a couple of nice
shirts at CVS. They don't fit like you know shirts
you buy at Macy's or Nordstroms, but they're less expensive.
That's key. But let's find out what's going on with
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these pharmacies. They're going out of business.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Man a major shakeup at CVS Health not CEO Karen
Lynch suddenly replaced at the nation's biggest pharmacy chain.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Healthcare so personal to you and me. Yeah, that you
can't lose sight of that human connection facing financial struggles
under her leadership.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Wait wait, wait, let's go back here.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
At the nation's biggest pharmacy change.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Okay, the biggest pharmer chain pharmacy chain is CVS.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Now what did she say about it?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Healthcare so personal to you and may.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Okay, I don't know that CBS has the dock in
a box. You can go in there and you know,
have them look at a boil or I don't know,
maybe you got a rash, maybe you're not feeling well.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And what is that?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
The CVS has a minutic clinic, I think they call it,
and there you go. Yeah, and if it's for people
who don't really have a lot of time to spend
on their health, you know you got well, you got
a minute, that's all you really have. You've locked off
a minute out of your schedule to go see if
you have a brain cancer.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And so when she said.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Healthcare so personal to you and me, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I don't know how personal it is when you're going
into a drug store to see if you're dying.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
It's odd that you can't lose sight of that human connection.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Facing financial struggles under her leadership.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
By the way, this woman.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Healthcare so personal to you and me that you can't
lost site of that human connection.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, I would go back to the pharmacy and see
if they've got a jug of those antidepressants. Darling, I
think you're on the verge of wild depression if you're
not already in it already. This sounds like bedridden, white
heat depression.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
That you can't lost site of that human connection.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Bang, she's down facing financial struggles under her leadership. CVS
is on track to close nine hundred of its nearly
ten thousand locations.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No way, I know Burbank is going to be a
victim because we got CVS's that are too close to
each other. We've got one on Olive and for Dugo
and another one on for Dugo and Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Way.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I guarantee you one of them's going away. I don't
know which one, but one of them is going away.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
In its three year plan and cut about three thousand
corporate jobs.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh that's horrible. We got to save these cvss somehow.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't know. I don't know how to save them.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Maybe I take carpet out of the cold and flu aisle.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I always found that odd.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You know, people are going there who are really sick
to buy their own flu and cold medication, and there's
carpet on the floor.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yikes.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Industry wide and estimated seven thousand pharmacies here.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Do you ever do that? When you go to a
belly you're a big fan?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
What do you have?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Walgreens? Right aid, CBS kind of gal Where do you hang?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
I am a CVS Walgreens rotationer. Oh you are yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
thank you? I enjoy both all right, do you I
do this?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I purposely avoid the cold and flu aisle. Do you
do that?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I don't know if you can.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You should, I don't know if you can. That's where
the sickest people in there are going.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh, that's where the lingers lay at.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Yeah, sometimes cold and flu family members that are picking
it up for the sick.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
So you're okay.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Sometimes sometimes go for it. I wouldn't go for it.
I would avoid those aisles. Like you can go into footwear.
You know where your bunions or your boils, whatever you
got working.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You can go into that area.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You're not going to get bunions or boils from shifting
through the doctor's shoals.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Crap.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But if you go over to flu and cold, that's
where all the germs are in that place, that's where
the germs live.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
And you don't think that I avoid old people are
walking through the doctor's shoals.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
No no, no, no, they walk through. They don't linger.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
They linger in the flu and cold asle because they
look at prices on everything.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Ah, that's too much. I don't know about this. What
does this have? Is this ampm?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I can't tell what this thing. And while they hang there.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
All their flu and cold germs are flying around that area.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Avoid those aisles. Be safe.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Industry wide and estimated seven thousand pharmacies have already shuddered
in the last five years.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Seven thousand, seven thousand. And these are beautiful people in
beautiful pharmacies. I love Walgreens, I love Write eight and CVS.
I'm a big fan. And I don't know how to
save them.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Walgreens just this week announced a twelve hundred of its
remaining stores could soon close. Oh what, Walgreens just this
week announced twelve hundred of its remaining stores could soon close.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
They used to have two women who are cashiers at
the one on Hollywood Way and for Dugo, both in
their eighties, beautiful women. One of them was Betty, I
canmemeber the other. I think Anne was the other one.
And they used to argue all the time, kind of
the attraction and going. You know, two ladies arguing with
one another. And then I think your name was Betty
or Beatrice, and you would pay for something. Let's say
(06:46):
you're buying something for sixteen dollars, you give her a
twenty and then she would give you four ones back,
but that thumb, Betty's thumb, went into Betty's mouth, licked
that thumb and then peeled off four ones to you,
And you're like, yo.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You just wow, sweetie.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
There are twelve thousand bottles of stuff in this store
that were made for that exact ailment, which is dryness.
This story, CBS is filled with lotions and potions and
ointments and salvs for dry skin.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's what you got. You got dry skin? God, dang,
you need a salve.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh man, I don't pay for I don't pay for
anything in cash anymore because I can't stand getting those
dollars back after they stick that thumb in the mouth
and peel off four four dollars for you. Oh, I
don't know. A lot of people are stopped paying cash.
There's feces on I think it was ninety six percent
of dollar bills. Feces, actual human feces a ninety six
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percent of dollar bills.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
That changes at all based on the the denomination of
the bill.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I think there's probably less species on one hundred. Oh
who knows. Rich people are a holes doll.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
They're more likely to white with a bill that's right
and right.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Aid filed for bankruptcy last year.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Older demographics they want to sit down with the pharmacists,
understand the medicine.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Younger demographics they.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Don't want to interact with farmsis.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
They want their medicine and get out, and they want
it cheap and they want to hit their doorstep.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
What does a pharmacy look like when it comes to
getting your medication? In five years, you could have potentially
twenty five thirty percent less pharmacies in the next two
to three years than are today.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's over, it's over.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The retail closures are creating even more drug store deserts.
That has Amazon.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I've never heard that term before. Drug store desert.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
The retail closures are creating even more drug store desert.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Drug store desert comes after we started hearing food door deserts.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, yeah, drug store deserts. That has Amazon Pharmacy taking
flights testing prescription drone delivery in Texas with plans to
open pharmacies in twenty more cities next year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You know, eventually it just coulda be all Amazons. So
get used to it. That's where we're going and I'm
it's sorry, sorry, I We'll only tell our great grandkids
what drug stores were like, because there won't be any.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
When you could actually walk up to someone and talk
to them about an issue you're having. Yeah, that's the
best part of having the pharmacists there when you walk
in there is you can get a little bit of
advice about what's better than what.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, but they're always on that stage. They're always on
a platform like they're better than I am.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I don't like that.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Oh, you're you're a different one than I go to.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You only get pharmacists and guys who work at porno
stores on that platform.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You know, they think they're better than you. Threw the
curtain in the back well.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
The guy in the porno store, he's got to keep
an eye on everybody. You know, guys stealing wangs in
Aisle three, but the pharmacist.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
On the library put it down. The pharmacist, the porno guy.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Oh, both on stage, different backgrounds, all creditator accreditations, but
on stage, all.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Dealing with people that just want to feel better.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I guess so, I guess. So I'm gonna miss them.
I'm gonna miss them when they leave. Oh yeah, especially
the guys that work at these stores.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty. We're back, baby, Ah.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
We've had some computer problems here at home. Maybe you
noticed where we were off the air for ten minutes
and then we started playing old shows.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
So we're back. What was the problem, Robin?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You know more than I do about computers and radio stations.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
What happened? Next Gen busted up?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
It was first it was next Gen, and then it
was the computer, and then it was the whole entire thing.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Was everything anything caught on fire. I saw the smoke
coming out of there. I thought we were in.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Trouble, something about an essays card.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Okay, all right, is the the the fan is now
blowing my way?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Can you turn it back the other way? Because that
smoke is toxic.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I don't know what the hell happened in there, but
got almighty. Smells like somebody's cooking in there.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
All right, we're back. We're back, baby, dig dog.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's the first time that's happened since I've worked here KFI.
We've never been off the air for you, but for me,
we've never been off the air since I've worked at KFI,
not once, not a single time. And we're back back
in time to see the big Christmas tree being dropped
off of the citadel.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I love it. Did you see that on the news?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yes, it's so excited.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's like a seventy foot tree that gave up its
life or cheap shoppers.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Oh, don't put it that way.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Well how else to put it?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I don't know, you know, but that that tree gave
up its life and now we get to go look
at it. You've been a citadel for holiday shopping? Yes, Oh,
isn't spectacular.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Do you know they have like it's snows.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I think they do it nightly for a certain amount
of time where they'll have snow once the holiday season kicks.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Is a right?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Oh wow, all right. I didn't know that, but man,
that's citadel. They do it right. And they got a
lot of parking, a lot of different shops. I do
get lost in there though, I can't find out, Like
I never have my bearings in there. I'm like, I
don't know where I'm parked, and did I go to
this shop or not?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But I do like that citadel and they got the
Christmas tree arrived last night. I think it's a seventy
footer man, that's a big ass tree. And how'd they
get it down here? Where they get it?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And how do you get it? Do you helicopter it
out of the place where they cut it down? I
don't know. I don't know the details, but i'd like
to know. I'd like to find out. All Right, we're
back on the air. Sorry for the delay. We are
back though. We're back baby, and you actually are in
great shape because we have a powerball story for you here.
(13:00):
Powerball is powerball ticket in Lake Elsinor. If you bought
a ticket in Lake Elsinor, somebody is walking around with
a ticket where two hundred and forty three thousand dollars.
As the jackpot grows, it's a lot of dough to find.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Marl's Powerball drackpot has jumped to a whopping four hundred
and fifty six million dollars wow pty one yesterday's drawing.
But someone in Lake Elsinor bought a winning ticket with
five numbers with more than two hundred and forty three
thousand dollars. Those winning numbers seven, sixteen, nineteen, forty five,
sixty four. The powerball was twenty five. The odds of
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matching all five numbers, and the power BALLZ remains one
in about two hundred and ninety three million.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You know what this is?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
A number five the odds, the number that a lot
of people play for the power ball twenty five. You
know why people play number twenty five? Bell, you have
any idea why people play number five? Number twenty five?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Because it's my birthday?
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Ooh?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Is it really?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Twenty fifth of one April. Okay, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
I didn't know your birthday.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I didn't. No, I didn't know. It's gonna be the
greatest birthday ever. Love birthday. I know the twenty five
people play for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's Jesus Christ's birthday since Yeah, December twenty fifth, Jesus Christ, Yeah,
December twenty fifth, yours April twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yes, okay, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No, you won't. That's okay.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Do you have an alert in your phone for people's birthdays?
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Yeah, it's called I text you and tell you it's
myth No, I do, but for some reason they for
it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I'm doing it wrong.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
I've missed a lot of people's birthdays, and I'm like,
I said, an alarm for that?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Facebook?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Oh? Facebook, does that.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Wait, you can have a Facebook alert like you It'll
pop up and say, Hey, it's John's birthday or Steve's birthday.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yeah, that's how I do it.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Is that right kind of cheating?
Speaker 6 (14:49):
I guess yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I keep forgetting my best friend's birthday.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So yeah, but you know, you know what I think
is pretty vacant, and I'm not a big fan of
is when it pops up on Facebook that it's someone's
birthday and you send them a text and they send
you a text thank you. It seems flat. It seems
like there's no feeling or emotion there. You're just going
through the you know, the motions and the moves. You
(15:15):
heard it on Facebook. Send them a text, Maybe you
send them a Facebook post happy birthday. Hey I heard
on Facebook it's your birthday. Oh thanks for the Facebook acknowledgment.
Happy birthday to you two.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I appreciate that they took that extra step. Is something
to them that they took the extra step?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Do you do you mind it when people attack you
with gifts?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Not at all.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
You don't, but you know what they don't. So it's
a wait, I get attacked. I know you do.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, for some reason, you don't want to get attacked,
and yet you get attacked. And I wouldn't mind being attacked.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
But I can't, am I the only guy you know
that finds getting a gift is an attack? The only
really you've never heard that before ever, is that right?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So never in your life, in your you know, thirty
forty whatever you know you're rolling this week? Yeah, whatever
your whatever your age is, you've never heard of anybody saying, oh,
I got attacked for my birthday.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
What happened? Oh somebody gave me a gift? Attack?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
No, you were the first and only person that does.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, it's odd, it's odd, all right, But I've been
I was attacked by a couple of people, and I
immediately attacked back.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I attack back. I find it offensive, and I attack
right back. All right? Today, this weekend's the birthday though, Bellyo.
You always enjoyed Marongo.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I love Marina. Yes, we're excited.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
We're gonna have so much fun, and you're gonna be
down there early. John want to be watching college football.
He wake up on Sunday watch more.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Football, but he has to go to the poker room. First.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Oh, that's right. He loves poker.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Yes, yeah, right, what's your first stop.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I try to put the all the luggage in the room,
and I hit the slots pretty hard.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, you do like the slots.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And and then when the party's over, I like wandering
off on my own to hit the slots.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
We know, yeah, we'll stay away from me.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Okay. I didn't ask for it. This day with me,
I just enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
I told you last year, was it? Last year? We
were walking.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
A bunch of us were walking through the main room
and I saw you. A couple of us saw you
over on a slot machine, and they started to go
over there.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
And I grabbed their jack.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Leave them alone. It's the one night I can get
out and gamble. I got one night man, one night.
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Dodgers are the big story here in Los Angeles, huge,
huge story going to the World Series starting Friday, and
you can hear all the games on AM five seventy.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
All the games are.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
We talked a little bit about grocery stores, not grocery stores,
drug stores closing. You got your CVS's, Walgreens right Aids,
And before then it was save on drug store, thrifty
drug store, and they all seem to be going away.
But it's not just drug stores, major retailers closing up
(18:13):
shop and a lot of people, maybe you're one of them.
You thought, well, people stealing is no big deal, so
you didn't report it, you didn't do anything about it.
I don't blame you. You know, why should you get killed
over some guys stealing a rake? You shouldn't, but because nobody,
not enough people did anything about it. One of the
(18:36):
reasons why these stores are closing is shrinkage.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Well they call that. You just call it, you know,
people stealing.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Now they call it shrinkage, people stealing, people getting a
better deal online. People uh, you know, not thrilled to
go out anymore because of crime. A lot of things
are adding up here in the wrong direction, and so
a lot of these stores are going to close down.
And it saddens me because there's nobody on this station
(19:04):
and maybe nobody in radio who likes these stores more
than I do. I'm a consumer. I'm a consumer. I
love consuming. I love going into the stores looking around.
I do that with my wife, my daughter. We go
to Target, and that's like a highlight of my of
my week. It's a weird thing. I'll admit that. I
get in the car, my wife gets in the car,
(19:26):
and we go to the Target, the Empire Center, and
when they go into Target, I go to Low's for
a half hour look around, and I meet them up
at Target and we finish shopping up at Target. You know,
sometimes you don't get a lot. Sometimes we get, you know,
plenty of stuff. But I just love walking around the stores.
I don't know what it is. Maybe my grandparents, we're
(19:47):
big fans of doing that. They used to love K Mart.
My grandma used to call it K Marx. I don't
know why. Let's got a K Marx. How do you
spell it? K M A r x K. Yeah, it's
got a K marks. And we'd loved going to Kmart.
We used to sit in Kmart at their little coffee
(20:07):
shop in the back, you know, French fries, coke. I
don't know, maybe split a burger and wait for that
blue Light special to come on. And they would announce
blue light special now on Aisle five men's socks, like, oh,
let's go take a look at that. And we'd walk
over to the blue Light Special and for you people
who are too young to remember what a blue light
(20:29):
special was. They had a blue light that looked like
they had the light you'd see on top of a
police car, old fashioned cop car. They and it would
be on wheels and they would tow it around the
store in every half hour, every twenty minutes, they'd say
blue light special in sporting goods, and then you would go.
You'd see the blue light from where you were eating
(20:52):
at the coffee shop, and you'd walk towards the blue light.
And for while that blue light was going on, there
was a special on whatever product it was next to,
and sometimes it's twenty thirty forty percent off. Great idea,
and why they got rid of it.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
You know what's really funny is they got rid of
it for a while. And I just put in blue
light special in Google and one of the articles news
articles that came up was from twenty to fifteen, but
back nine years ago, where it said Kmart brings back
the blue light special back in twenty nineteen, twenty fifteen,
So apparently it didn't work.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I enjoyed it, but a lot of retailers shutting down
over the weekend.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
You may have heard the last full sized kmart, Superstar
closed forever. Goodbye blue light specials, Hello, empty parking lots.
Hello that sad outline of the giant red k that
used to hang on buildings all over America. There used
to be more than two thousand kmarts in America, used
to be.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
But what happened?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Because it's not only km arts that have been closing,
a lot of stories have been closing.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Consider some of these other big names.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Dollar Tree, nearly one thousand stores, big lots, around five
hundred stores.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I love all these stories.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I'm a freak for these stores, these dollar stores, Dollar General,
Dollar Store, ninety nine cent store, Dollar King.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Five below, Oh, five below is a little pricey for me,
is it? Yeah? Out of your budget?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I think five below is more for kids.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
You know, you don't see a lot of good like
hardware there or I don't know, it's a weird thing.
I can't figure it out. But five below seems kitchy
or yeah, I guess there's like a I don't even
know what it is, but.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It's a great store for stocking stuffers.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, Temu store basically, yes, yes, I think Bellio nailed it.
Stocking stuffers. Yeah, but I'm not stuffing stocking.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
But they do have some cleaning supplies as well.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, but not as not like the Dollar King or
Dollar General.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
You know the dollar you know the ninety nine cent
stores on Victory and Buena Vista. They went out of business,
but guess what opened Dollar store? Dollar Stores. We're back
in business. We're back in the game, back in the game.
Or we'll come back and finish on why these stores
are closing. It's a really bad time for retail in
the United States. Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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