{"id":21923,"date":"2023-06-06T22:27:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T02:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21923"},"modified":"2023-06-06T22:28:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T02:28:23","slug":"wallgreens-pharmacy-2300-decker-boulevard-spring-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21923","title":{"rendered":"Wallgreens Pharmacy, 2300 Decker Boulevard: Spring 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/06\/p1590083.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/06\/p1590083_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1590083_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1590083_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/06\/p1590084.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/06\/p1590084_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1590084_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1590084_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/06\/p1590085.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/06\/p1590085_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1590085_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1590085_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/06\/p1590086.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/06\/p1590086_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1590086_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1590086_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880472.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880472_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880472_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880472_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880473.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880473_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880473_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880473_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880474.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880474_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880474_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880474_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880475.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880475_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880475_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880475_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880476.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880476_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880476_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880476_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880477.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880477_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880477_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880477_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880478.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880478_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880478_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880478_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880479.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880479_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880479_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880479_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880480_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880480_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880480_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880481.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/06\/p1880481_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880481_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880481_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <i>Walgreens<\/i> was perhaps the least <i>Wallgreens<\/i>-looking store in the Columbia area, having been an <i>Eckerd<\/i> and then a <i>Rite Aid<\/i> until <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15855\">2018<\/a>.  I had been in there a few times in each incarnation and it was fine, but it wasn't one of my go-to drugstores.<\/p>\n<p>Commenter Andrew speculates that the issue here was the lack of a drive-through, but it's a corner spot, so I think they could have put one in somehow (though I did not think to look at the side area of the store).  At any rate, the issue wasn't <i>Walgreens<\/i> oversaturation -- I believe the nearest one to here is either at <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=spring-valley-commons\">Spring Valley Commons<\/a>, or on <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15242\">Forest Drive<\/a>, neither of which is particularly close.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to Mr. Guy)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2300+Decker+Blvd,+Columbia,+SC+29206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Walgreens was perhaps the least Wallgreens-looking store in the Columbia area, having been an Eckerd and then a Rite Aid until 2018. I had been in there a few times in each incarnation and it was fine, but it wasn't one of my go-to drugstores. Commenter Andrew speculates that the issue here was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1815,576,92,1817,3754,3553,2525],"class_list":["post-21923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2300-decker-boulevard","tag-brookfield-road","tag-decker-boulevard","tag-decker-village","tag-drug-stores","tag-pharmacies","tag-walgreens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}