Drug stores on every block

A Walgreens on every block is pretty common in larger cities, so it's not surprising that we're seeing it here.

The new ShopKo Express store in Darboy does offer a few things that Walgreens doesn't:
-They sell prescription eyeglasses
-They have a medical clinic onsite
-The offer a decent selection of beer and wine

We switched a couple of prescriptions from Walgreens to ShopKo Express because the store is more convenient to where we live and they gave us a $25 ShopKo giftcard for doing it. But I drive by the SkopKo Express in Darboy every day and they don't seem to ever have any where near the number of cars in their parking lot that the nearby Walgreens does, so I'm not sure how long they'll be in business. (I can also recommend the ShopKo Express prescription eyeglass service too- decent prices and quick service.)

I am somewhat disappointed in the transformation over the last few years of Darboy from a community on the outskirts of Appleton into a typical city suburb, but it beats the alternative- I lived in a small town in Wisconsin for a couple of years that had a bunch of zoning laws in place that prohibited almost any new businesses from opening and it was a pain having to drive 10 miles or more each way in order to go out to eat at a decent restaurant or 20 miles each way to shop at a competitively priced grocery store.