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CityLab Daily: When Punks Fight ‘Pharmafication’
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Food fight: The pharmacy chain CVS has been furiously opening outposts in cities nationwide: About 82 percent of the U.S. population now lives within a 15-minute drive of one of its thousands of stores. These drugstore giants have a keen sniffer for real estate, and the threat they pose to small independent retailers as they march through a community could even be called “pharmafication.”