The following is an article that appeared online on the Lahaina News website last week.
For those of you that were hearing about the competition between rival drug store chains Walgreens and CVS earlier this year to acquire Longs Drugs (which CVS did), you might remember some of the hoopla that was going on around it. With Walgreens losing out on the big prize, they settled for acquiring a few local pharmacies, include 4 on Maui.
According to the Lahaina News article, the first of those Walgreens-acquired pharmacies was to open its doors under its new name yesterday, in the Old Lahaina Center. The Lahaina Pharmacy, which was owned by Sheldon Zimmerman and who was interviewed in the article, was serving local residents for the past 17 years. Zimmerman, now 75, talks in the article about his first arrival to Maui some 38 years ago.
Putting the business aspect aside for a moment, I really enjoyed the interview in this article and about how Mr. Zimmerman summarizes all the changes he’s seen to the Lahaina area since 1970, and how happy he was to raise his family there. Hearing him recall a different time for West Maui, before all the shopping centers, resorts, and even the parking on Front Street back then, all stirs up ideas of what it would have been like to see Lahaina back then.
While it didn’t get the attention that the Longs Drugs story did, I think it is a nice story, and felt it was worth sharing. Feel free to share your thoughts.
Mahalo.
Tags: Lahaina
Just a quick follow up, the Maui News also ran this article today covering the story:
Walgreens settles into first local location.
I am trying to find your phone number for the Lahaina location, no luck. Not in the phone book or on this site as far as I can tell.
I would have enjoyed finding it as I want to see if you have an item I want to buy.
What is the site address of the new Walgreens? I will be in the area in January and will need to have prescriptions filled. Thanks you