ch-ch-ch-chainges

My neighborhood drugstore, the very one they rob at the beginning of Drugstore Cowboy , is closing. It was a little, independent, family-owned kinda place that had been there for years and years, of course. I called to get a prescription refilled, and the number had been disconnected. I went by, and it's all desolate and almost empty as they're cleaning out, and the sign on the door says all their prescription records have been transferred to Walgreens. So that's it, nothing left but the corporate chains. I find it depressing beyond all reason.