It’s two weeks since my last post, and now there are two posters in the Rite Aid display windows that have come unglued from the displays’ back walls and are sagging sadly and unattractively against the glass. I am going to suggest to the neighborhood association there that they approach Rite Aid about putting some neighborhood history information and photographs in the display windows, so [a] the windows aren’t empty/barren/underutilized, and [b] that Rite Aid doesn’t respond to a request to fill the windows with a Pyramid of Pringles or Tower of Paper Towels…
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