What this neighborhood needs is another drug store!
This morning I spoke to my pal who works at Key Foods and he said the rumour is true, CVS is taking over the Key Foods space. I asked him when this was supposed to happen and he said in a couple of months.
Please note that this is not a Key Foods official response, just a conversation with a worker bee.
I also noticed that the new Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins sign is affixed to the building. I guess it won’t be long until they open.
February 3rd, 2006 at 2:57 pm
When did the world start to suck?
February 3rd, 2006 at 3:46 pm
It has always sucked like a big vacuum! At least I’ll be able to get my meds at the new CVS. That will make life so much more fitter, happier, more productive…
ahh…Thom Yorke…I love you and your googly eye…why won’t you marry me?
February 3rd, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Why am I not surprised? That store is as money hungry as they come and they don’t care about their customers. Have you seen how filthy the store is? It is a shame for all the older residents and those who cannot drive that rely on this store. There aren’t many other options for people to shop.
February 3rd, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Did anyone else notice how there are about 4 other CVS/Duane Reade/Eckerd type stores in the neighborhood. Is there really a demand for more? Are the others that crowded? And after this change-over there will be only be 3 grocery stores.
February 3rd, 2006 at 7:35 pm
I also have no idea how all of these big ugly-ass pharmacies can survive. The mom and pop ones I can see because they were neighborhood driven, used to have low overhead, etc. But criminy, the Eckerd is two effing blocks away!!
Still, as we all know, that Key Food is a nightmare.
Also, a practical warning re: Dunkin Donuts — under no condition should anyone try their marshmallow-flavored coffee. YIKES.
February 3rd, 2006 at 10:15 pm
Frank’s corner store - my new supermarket.
February 4th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
I had also heard the rumor at some point that Met was potentially going to take Key Food over, which would be at least a marginal improvement. But, having a CVS going in there is absolutely pointless. I think we should hijack the whole thing and put a decent grocery store in there - or at least find someone who will.
February 4th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
I vote for a trader joes! Its a chain, i know, but not quite the neighborhood changing power of wholefoods.
February 7th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
I was in the Key food yesterday and they said they are closing by the end of February.
This is ridiculous. A huge drugstore? We don’t need it!! Where will people food shop on that end of CG? Unless you have a car to go to Pathmark, it really leaves everyone south of 1st Place in a lurch.
February 7th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
There are two Met Food stores in the area: Henry St and Degraw and Smith & Baltic, both of them clean and well-stocked. I regularly go there for my shopping and I live two blocks from Key Food (which I absolutely avoid like the plague)…and I don’t have a car. The new CVS will give Eckerd a run for their money. Eckerd is terrible. One cashier open at the evening rush hour with dozens of people going in there to shop as they exit the subway, and it’s no better during the day. Their weekly sales are a farce. Corporate Eckerd allots a limited supply of a product for a sale, and when that supply is spent, the sale is over, even though the sale doesn’t end until Saturday and there’s more product in the stockroom. The pharmacy is way overpriced, and they gouge senior citizens on their prescriptions. The same prescription at Eckerd for $71 cost $21 at Renaissance Pharmacy on Court. Maybe a little competition will force them to clean up their act.
February 10th, 2006 at 12:57 am
The Met on Smith & Baltic isn’t clean - it always smells of cat pee. I’ve regularly bought cheese/yougurt that’s turned out to be spoiled, and producethat’s turned out to be rotten (pre-packaged so you can’t tell) from there. Perhaps it’s better than the key foods, but that isn’t saying much. I always do much better when I shop at sahadis and the produce market next door. They’re cheaper and the quality is much much better.
February 18th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
We need a supermarket! Eating first, hair products second. I don’t have a car and will find it very inconvenient to walk to pathmark
February 21st, 2006 at 5:10 pm
I don’t have a car either and find no hardship in walking to Met on Henry or on Smith. I also walk to Atlantic Ave to Sahadi and to the greengrocer between Court & Clinton when I can’t find anything to my liking at Met. Good exercise.
June 16th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
It is really too bad that this area of Brooklyn does not have a really good grocery store. Am so distrustful of the meat here that I prefer to shop in my old neighborhood in Manhattan as I know the quality of the meats there and the quality of many of their other products as well.
Also, as there are so few other supermarkets, the ones here - except for the occasional loss leader - have extremely high prices.
And, if you people who live here insist on purchasing at those huge chain pharmacies here , our lovely neighborhood will be riddled with homogenous pharmacies, banks, etc. and you yourself will be the cause of the complete loss of character of the neighborhood you love. If there is no market for them, the huge pharmacies will not locate here. Instead patronize the local pharmacies - there is one right on Wykoff.
August 26th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
absolutely! I go to the little drug store on Wyckoff street and I am greeted personally by the pharmacist and since I have insurance it doesn’t matter where I go it will always be $10, $20 or $30 depending on what medicine it is. if i need soap or shampoo or whatever I try to buy from him. my first day of ever going into his shop, I was short $2 for the tylenol I was buying. it was a $10 minimum for using a credit card so he told me I could take the tylenol and come back with the $2 some other day. he didn’t even know me! so I made sure I returned the money to him as soon as I could, and he was so appreciative that I came back with it and I felt so good about it that I decided I would only by my drugs and other sundries from him. too bad that the huge corporate chains will price this honest mom&pop shop out of business…