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[–]bmetoyer 2669 points2670 points  (135 children)

Walgreens in wicker park neighborhood in chicago

[–]theundercoverpapist 724 points725 points  (46 children)

Gotta protect that Vitamin D.

[–]Red_Dawn_2012 257 points258 points  (40 children)

From a nuclear winter?

[–]InsaneGenis 257 points258 points  (19 children)

From triflin hoes

[–]ReubenZWeiner 48 points49 points  (15 children)

Vitamins? Put the whole pharmacy in there. When the Smash and Grabs come, lock 'em in there.

[–]Ravenhaft 25 points26 points  (14 children)

With the pharmacists?

[–]Silent-Ad934 38 points39 points  (8 children)

I'm not trapped in here with Pharma-You. You're trapped in here with Pharma-Me.

[–]The_Racho 38 points39 points  (4 children)

They're bouta pharma-see

[–]Afelisk2 12 points13 points  (2 children)

How I lost my pharma-degree

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    [–]bobdude0987654321 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    When that door closes they take the P out of Pharmacist

    [–]MelonFancy 18 points19 points  (1 child)

    You’ll be wishing for one after patrolling the Mojave.

    [–]Boballistic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Can’t believe such a little amount of people got the fallout reference.

    [–]theundercoverpapist 43 points44 points  (16 children)

    Of course! That and rabid Karens who read an article on Facebook that Vitamin D inoculates you against COVID-19 better than the vaccines.

    [–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (6 children)

    Hey, as a person who lives mainly inside in a temperate climate, don't take my D3 away from me!!!

    [–]wrongbecause 16 points17 points  (0 children)

    When you make comments like this, it makes other ppl think vitamin D3 won’t help, which is wrong.

    [–]CrumbsAndCarrots 6 points7 points  (5 children)

    Vitamin D has shown some positive effects re: severity. Covid can obviously pick and choose who it’s going to kill regardless of D intake. But studies show some positive effects.

    [–]theundercoverpapist 2 points3 points  (4 children)

    Lol. Interesting. I pulled that out of my ass. I had no idea.

    [–]CrumbsAndCarrots 4 points5 points  (3 children)

    Ha. Yeah! I’m very pro science and anti-anti-vaxxers. But there’s at least some positive correlation to D and covid. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7385774/

    [–]kdar 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    Some call anti-anti-vaxxers "pro vax" and that's nothing to be ashamed about.

    [–]Southrn_Comfrt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    I hear patrolling the Chicago wasteland almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

    [–]Thisissomeshit2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I just use a cup

    [–]ManInBlack829 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    It's only open from 9am to 3pm Monday-Friday after which it is locked

    [–]IAmAnObvioustrollAMA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    They got raincoats in that vault?

    [–]Furyian13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    And the toilet paper & paper towels

    [–]Shoelesshobos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    I got some Vitamin D for ya.

    Right here!

    Points to vitamin bottles on shelf below

    [–]Ghost-Of-Nappa 69 points70 points  (16 children)

    there used to be a restaurant/club under a CVS on division called the Bedford. was also an old bank and the vault was the VIP lounge. loved that place. not sure why it closed down

    [–]junktrunk909 55 points56 points  (6 children)

    The service was abysmal. I usually don't complain about this stuff but it stands out as one of the worst nights I've had in the neighborhood.

    [–]londongastronaut 24 points25 points  (1 child)

    Wasn't always like that. Did you go near the end?

    When they opened the bartenders were awesome, could sit at the bar and shoot the shit and have great drinks. The food was good too.

    Eventually it became really popular, but I think maybe they couldn't scale because the food, drinks and service all got worse. It got to the point where it was difficult to even get in, but once you did the experience sucked anyway.

    Ironically, it seemed like a victim of its own success. Eventually they just shut down I guess.

    [–]Sp00mp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

    Only time I ever went it was free sponsored vodka all night and an Icelandic rock band. Bad ass bank vault bar. Never went again because I mean....top that

    [–]buffalocoinz 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Pft who went for the service? You went to sit and get drunk in a dimly lit vault!

    [–]alczervik 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    which cvs? i kid i kid, but weird that there are 2 on that block

    [–]BMoney8600 67 points68 points  (34 children)

    Fr?! I gotta go to this Walgreens!

    [–]Ltjenkins 54 points55 points  (13 children)

    North and damen

    [–]BMoney8600 8 points9 points  (9 children)

    I’ll check it out some day!

    [–]tokeyoh 14 points15 points  (8 children)

    When you do go also go have yourself a slice at Dimo's right down the street - it's my favorite pizza place in the city!

    [–]Guinness 6 points7 points  (3 children)

    Dimos or I also recommend Piece Pizza/Brewery. Their pizza is so damn good and also they’ve won a ton of awards for their beer.

    [–]Adolf_Titler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Then Lemmings to get hammered without a crowd.

    [–]bengibbardstoothpain 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    That Mac and Cheese pizza gives me something

    [–]StonedSquare 18 points19 points  (18 children)

    Aside from being in an old bank, it’s nothing special.

    [–]BMoney8600 48 points49 points  (6 children)

    I just like seeing new things. I have heard of so many cool places in Chicago that I haven’t been to yet which is ironic since I live in the west burbs and I go the city pretty often.

    [–]MrConfucius 40 points41 points  (2 children)

    May your wonder of existence never extinguish. I hope you find the strangest nooks and crannies throughout your life

    [–]SillyOldJack 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    I like your reply way more than the other guy.

    [–]MrConfucius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Some grow better; others... bitter.

    [–]Unlucky-Ad-6710 6 points7 points  (2 children)

    Theres a weed store in Mesa in a old bank, same thing, its neat for about 3 minutes.

    [–]CaptainTenneal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Ha, literally just went to that place.

    [–]zinklesmesh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Hey, neat for 3 minutes is better than neat for 0 minutes

    [–]WeddingOnWheels 11 points12 points  (5 children)

    Eh, the vitamin vault is kind of cool because it has some Walgreens artifacts from yesteryear.

    Source: went to check out the vitamin vault on my wedding day.

    [–]StonedSquare 12 points13 points  (4 children)

    You uhh… didn’t have anything better to do on that day? (͡•_ ͡• )

    [–]WeddingOnWheels 13 points14 points  (3 children)

    shrug

    Had a cold. Needed vitamin C. It was across the street from the hotel we were staying at.

    [–]buffalocoinz 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    They’ve got a decent beer/wine selection that’s cheaper than the liquor stores in the area 🤷‍♀️

    [–]AchillesDev 8 points9 points  (0 children)

    There's a Walgreens on Washington St. in Boston just like this. And in the next town over a dispensary in an old bank with much of their inventory in the vault, it's great.

    [–]jigglybitches 21 points22 points  (6 children)

    Chicago must like turning old banks into new things. I stayed at a hotel up there where the lobby was an old bank. It was pretty cool.

    EDIT: My bad folks, I just remembered that hotel was actually in St. Louis. It was still cool tho

    [–]chefhj 19 points20 points  (2 children)

    I would say that it is probably many many times cheaper to not remove the vault plus people find it fun and quirky so its a win win. Chicago having been a finance hub for most of its existence would ensure a plethora of old bank buildings to work from.

    [–]223454 7 points8 points  (1 child)

    I've heard that the vaults are basically tied in to the structure of the buildings, so removal isn't really practical.

    [–]chefhj 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    That would make sense to me they were almost certainly put into the building with a crane when pouring the foundations. I imagine the only practical way to remove would be to completely raze the structure.

    [–]Ianl951 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Do you mean the Old Post Office?

    That place is awesome, I DJ’d a very swanky wedding there.

    [–]jigglybitches 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    No. I can't remember the name of the hotel but it was kind of swanky. I got my room through a discount site. The used the actual vault (pretty small) as a commissary.

    [–]Lightpink87wagon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    I used to go there pretty much daily on my way to the blue line.

    [–]BRAX7ON 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    A good place to spend the zombie invasion as long as you get there first. If you’re second, you’re probably already dead

    [–]finalremix 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Better dead than zed...

    [–]IGetItCrackin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Not at all for any child of any age.

    [–]zhdx54 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Hey hey! I took a trip to Chicago and just so happened to stumble upon this place! I can’t believe I’m seeing it here but yeah I live in SC

    [–]zero_clues 916 points917 points  (19 children)

    deep voice

    Walgreens. Walgreens never changes.

    [–]IWasMisinformed 155 points156 points  (9 children)

    "Prescriptions are non-negotiable!"

    [–]MomoBawk 35 points36 points  (8 children)

    If this is a ref to something that is cool but this just makes me think of a doctor angrily shoving pills into someones mouth because they keep forgetting them.

    [–]Darmug 35 points36 points  (1 child)

    It's from the Fallout franchise and it's a Liberty Prime line.

    [–]MomoBawk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Ty for the insight!

    [–]Volltern 2 points3 points  (5 children)

    1k+ per pill bottle.

    [–]MomoBawk 1 point2 points  (4 children)

    In which currency?

    [–]RE4PER_ 113 points114 points  (4 children)

    In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons, Vitamin D and Penicillin. For these resources, CVS would invade Alaska, Walgreens would annex Canada, and the European Pharma industry would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining Vitamins on Earth.

    In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.

    A few were able to reach the relative safety of the large underground Vaults. Your family was part of that group that entered the Walgreens Vitamin Vault . Imprisoned safely behind the large Vault door, under a city of stone, a generation has lived without knowledge of the outside world.

    Life in the Vault is about to change. The Prep H is running out....

    [–]mcm0313 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    I wish I had something to give you, because this is epic.

    [–]RE4PER_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Your nice comment will do :)

    [–]zero_clues 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Underrated comment

    [–]Csmbug22 10 points11 points  (0 children)

    Manager: Another customer needs our help. Here, I'll mark it on your Pip-Boy.

    [–]Mysterious-Owl-890 1001 points1002 points  (51 children)

    I would have trust issues walking into that

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      [–]RaVashaan 257 points258 points  (18 children)

      There used to be a video rental store near me that did the same thing. I always thought it funny that they put the kids movies in the vault area.

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        [–]jakedasnake1 189 points190 points  (13 children)

        10x cooler for kids than us as adults. Walking into a bank vault to look at the kids movies seems like one of those small things a kid might remember for the rest of their life. I still remember a gift shop I went to into on vacation as a 5-6 year old that had a sharks head for an entrance.

        [–]Marmalade_Shaws 37 points38 points  (3 children)

        Sharky's in Ocean Shores? I loved that shark head when I was little, I haven't forgotten it since.

        [–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (2 children)

        WOAH. Just got like a bazillion flashbacks from that place!! I was actually just there last year and the shark mouth is still going strong.

        [–]Marmalade_Shaws 2 points3 points  (1 child)

        Damn... Last I was there was my two year anniversary with my boyfriend. I got a body board and one of those hats with the shark bite out of the bill. It was great, plus the guy working there was awesome.

        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        I learned to drive on the beach behind Sharkys. I'm from Seattle so it's only a few hours away. The coast is a magical place man

        [–]l3rN 9 points10 points  (3 children)

        Souvenir City in Gulf Shores AL?

        Judging by the other comment it's apparently more common than I thought

        [–]jakedasnake1 3 points4 points  (1 child)

        Yep for sure this one because I think that was where we went!

        [–]CappyKnuckey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Souvenir City in Biloxi MS has a gator head for the entrance IIRC.

        [–]WhimsicalLaze 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Yeah stuff like that sticks. I remember when I was a little kid - when I was at my grandparent’s, we sometimes went shopping at a nearby supermarket that had enormous 3D models of animals hanging from the ceiling in the meat/fish section. Distinctively remember a giant cow and a giant shrimp hanging from the ceiling and I thought it was so damn cool lol. They removed them when they remodeled several years later though

        [–]marsasagirl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        I remember going to some museum as a kid and they had a new exhibit where they found a bricked off bank vault or something. I can’t remember which state I lived in but holy fuck it was cool to see it. It blew my tiny child lizard brain.

        [–]Tetragonos 9 points10 points  (0 children)

        So I remember reading about an ex bank where they didn't disable the door and a kid swung it shut. There was at least 3 hour delay in getting the door open again and the people inside back out. I always check to make sure the door is disabled if I pass by an inactive vault.

        [–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

        Same thing for a building I used to work at. We where told that nobody alive knew the combo/unlock details so we where to never step foot in it.

        [–]b1ack1323 6 points7 points  (2 children)

        Brewery near me said they got nearly a grand in scrap for theirs.

        Just put it on Craigslist!

        [–]longliveHIM 9 points10 points  (1 child)

        Some dude in a Toyota pickup is gonna try to haul that thing and blow out his suspension

        [–]Virkungstreffer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        You could say he sent his pickup into ta-coma...

        [–]88Ghost88 46 points47 points  (9 children)

        I worked at a bar that was built in an old bank, they used the vault for storage, and it had a massive sign near the door saying “DO NOT CLOSE DOOR, KEEP OPEN”. I asked the owner about it and apparently if the vault door shuts then it locks, and they didn’t have the key, so you’d be stuck in there.

        [–]cheftlp1221 30 points31 points  (1 child)

        Worked at restaurant that was a former bank. The actual vault was turned into the walk-in refrigerator. The vault room itself was naturally insulated. The contractors just put up some RFP on the walls and some vinyl on the floors. The door jambs were roughly the size of a standard walk-in door, so it only needed some slight modifications to hang the door. The biggest challenge was hanging the refrigeration unit as they had to drill though almost 2 feet of reinforced wall to run pipes and electrical.

        The original vault door ended up as a cool wall decoration in the dining room.

        [–]Mysterious-Owl-890 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        That’s actually a great repurposing idea for old vaults.

        [–]CyberGrandma69 10 points11 points  (0 children)

        Yeah that's a big fuck no from me

        [–]ngwoo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

        That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. It'd be trivial to have someone come in for a few minutes to weld the hinges open.

        [–]ATragedyOfSorts 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        I'd have nightmares about that door even if I was off the clock. Jesus Christ.

        [–]Particular-Informal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

        There's one in Boston, the vault has tables for drinking though, so doubt the vault door would lock permanently (probably)

        [–]Teledildonic 2 points3 points  (1 child)

        if the vault door shuts then it locks, and they didn’t have the key, so you’d be stuck in there.

        This is a massive liability, what idiot would just say "I think a sign will do"?

        [–]the-shit-poster 19 points20 points  (2 children)

        I have have trust issues just looking at the picture...

        [–]Mysterious-Owl-890 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        People are saying it stays open and all but it’s the whole feel of it, the idea of it. This is not a Walgreens for those with phobias. I guess I’m soft.

        [–]robinlovesrain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        I'm claustrophobic and there is no way I would go in there. I don't need vitamins that badly thanks.

        [–]Jive_turkeeze 25 points26 points  (1 child)

        Lock picking lawyer would have it open in two minutes.

        [–]Edythir 7 points8 points  (0 children)

        If you want a good chuckle, look into the life and accomplishments of Alfred C. Hobbs.

        [–]ngeloh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

        This is my local Walgreens. The door, as well as all the safety deposit boxes, have been welded so they don’t move.

        [–]Boring-Bed-Bug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        As someone who is scared of being stuck I wouldn't want to enter

        [–]dullmonkey1988 270 points271 points  (13 children)

        "Hey boss, quote came back for the safe removal" "Fuck that! Tell Walgreens it's now a feature"

        [–]cbjohnson73 99 points100 points  (10 children)

        I'd like to seem them try removing a bank vault. FWIU the bank vaults are there first, and then the building is constructed around it.

        [–]Fandragon 66 points67 points  (3 children)

        Yep, those things are incredibly hard to remove. My church used to be in a building that was formerly a bank; we used the vault as storage and would joke about how well-protected our Christmas decorations and priest's robes were. (The locking mechanism was permanently disabled to the point that the door wouldn't close fully, so no chance of someone accidentally getting locked in.)

        [–]JusticeRain5 29 points30 points  (1 child)

        You're the second person i've seen in this thread who went to a church made out of an old bank vault.

        I'd assume it was the same one, but apparently they prevented the door from closing in different ways.

        [–]Tetragonos 12 points13 points  (0 children)

        I went somewhere and the ex bank was a restaurant. I was on a date and when they said "do you want to be seated inside the vault?" she said yes and I had to go along with it or be a stick in the mud. I did check and make sure the door wasn't going to be able to swing.

        [–]ratfink1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

        I own a concrete cutting and demolition company, I can confirm that bank vaults are indeed very difficult to remove!

        18” thick fiber mesh reinforced concrete with multiple mats of #5 bar.

        [–]cheftlp1221 12 points13 points  (0 children)

        A restaurant I worked for in the 90's turned the vault room into a walk-in refrigerator and took the vault door and made it a wall decoration in the dining room. I always thought it was a clever use of a space whose footprint was never going to change.

        [–]Dood71 2 points3 points  (2 children)

        What does FWIU mean

        [–]cbjohnson73 2 points3 points  (1 child)

        From what I understand

        [–]Dood71 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Thank you

        [–]pawn_guy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Ya, I watched them build the local DEA building behind my store, and the vault was constructed in the center of the building before any of the exterior walls went up. Then of course a 10' high steel fence with those outward facing spikes around the building. Can imagine there ends up being a lot of drugs, weapons, and cash in there sometimes. Only reason I even know that's what the building houses is because DEA agents like having a gun store within walking distance of work. There's nothing more than a 3 digit street number on the whole exterior of the building.

        [–]Kumquatelvis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        After an EF5 tornado several years ago the only thing left standing in its path was a bank vault.

        [–]this_place_stinks 23 points24 points  (0 children)

        I work for a bank on the real estate side. Removal of a vault is basically a deal breaker for any type of repurposing.

        It’s either work around it or scrape and rebuild. Those things are a bitch.

        Also fun fact, in spite of what many think vaults are not officially fire proof

        [–]SuchCoolBrandon 8 points9 points  (0 children)

        I worked in a building next door to a bank they were removing. They had a massive jackhammer thing that banged on the safe for what felt like weeks. It was awfully noisy.

        [–]TheCandleInTheWind 208 points209 points  (33 children)

        That’s cool where is this at?

        [–]acol0mbian[S] 196 points197 points  (31 children)

        Chicago!

        [–]swilliamspost 76 points77 points  (21 children)

        There's a Walgreens in a former bank with a big vault in Boston as well!

        [–]Fuzakenaideyo 17 points18 points  (5 children)

        I just got done saying that lol but you beat me by like 39 minutes

        [–]swilliamspost 2 points3 points  (4 children)

        Hahahha, great minds!

        [–]Gogogofootballgo 5 points6 points  (6 children)

        Same situation in Seattle as well.

        [–]MikeJones07 4 points5 points  (2 children)

        Fun fact, I worked in that Walgreens on 5th and Denny back in 2017. My great great grandfather was the president of the bank when it was still a bank too! (SeaFirst Natl.) It was a trip to see old pictures of the bank in our photo books compared with what I saw everyday working. I love the fact that they renovated the bldg and built inside instead of tearing it down.

        [–]Gogogofootballgo 2 points3 points  (1 child)

        Cool. I worked there when it was a Bank of America.
        The nuclear fallout shelter in the basement was trippy. Well, the whole basement was like a time portal to the 50s? 60s? (not sure exactly the time period, whenever they had hand crank operated vending machines and everything was orange and green).

        [–]swilliamspost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Clearly Walgreens has a type!

        [–]baloonatic 9 points10 points  (2 children)

        And here i thought people were making a looting joke

        [–]i_suckatjavascript 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        I mean the Walgreens at San Francisco could definitely benefit if they made a vault door.

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          [–]Dizpassion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          I know where I’ll be buying my gun then. Preesh!

          [–]greg-maddux 25 points26 points  (0 children)

          Wicker Park baby!

          [–]Rhodehouse93 23 points24 points  (1 child)

          We had a coffee shop in my college town that was set up in an old bank! You could reserve the vault for events and I hosted more than one bank-heist DnD game in there over the course of my 4 years. Great memories.

          [–]Bleu_Jackets 4 points5 points  (0 children)

          That’s awesome! We had a restaurant (closed now) in Cleveland that was in an old bank and the vault was a room specifically for like large parties

          [–]debbynha 20 points21 points  (0 children)

          another vault tec test

          [–]Trintard 17 points18 points  (2 children)

          WAR, WAR NEVER CHANGES

          [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          THE FUCKING DRILL IS JAMMED

          [–]23baseball3 10 points11 points  (2 children)

          [–]a_brick_canvas 3 points4 points  (1 child)

          Really cool place to tour around if you're from out of state, but the prices are absolutely trash for locals, probably because of their high rent.

          [–]sroop1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

          That was my grocery store for 4 years - it's just the normal Heinen's prices but interestingly enough, that store actually operates at a loss with the groceries yet makes it mostly back on the lunch/ready to go crowd.

          [–]PaperPlaytYT 8 points9 points  (0 children)

          Fallout 4 stores be like:

          [–]SirCalzone42 9 points10 points  (0 children)

          I love the absolute genius that named it the vitamin vault

          [–]Fuzakenaideyo 6 points7 points  (3 children)

          There is a wahlgreens like this in Boston

          [–]nephelokokkygia 1 point2 points  (1 child)

          Hoboken too

          [–]spartanreborn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          Yah, was looking to see if anyone mentioned Hoboken, since I've been in that one.

          [–]jayemadd 6 points7 points  (1 child)

          This whole Walgreens is cool. Been there plenty of times buying snacks after leaving the surrounding bars.

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            [–]Dropped_Rock 2 points3 points  (3 children)

            Massachusetts by chance?

            [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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              [–]towrofterra 1 point2 points  (1 child)

              So overpriced, even for BOS

              [–]AtomicPickles92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              Seriously though, Maine accepts MA medical cards and their weed is like 1/2 the price of MA. And they have crazy sells and great discounts. It’s kind of insane, but in a good way.

              [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

              I knew theft was getting bad but damn

              [–]THcB 8 points9 points  (0 children)

              Scrooge McDuck went vegan.

              [–]Krepitis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

              Ahh Vitamin vault 111....

              But theres enough vitamins for my whole family, right?

              [–]poppa_smurf_killa 13 points14 points  (17 children)

              It’s all fun and games till a kid closes the door so they can make a stupid tik Tok video.

              [–]Hefty_Woodpecker_230 13 points14 points  (11 children)

              This looks quite heavy, I'd be surprised if a kid can close this.

              [–]UnseenPlatypus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              It’s most probably stuck in place

              [–]macheezer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              Hey fellow Chicagoan! I posted the same thing a few years ago. Have an upvote for finding the same thing mildly interesting!

              [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              They need these in San Francisco

              [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

              This Walgreens won Todd Barry’s first annual best Walgreens award.

              [–]dsaddons 1 point2 points  (1 child)

              Y'know a guy got shot in there

              [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

              What do you want him to do, take back the comment about the award?

              [–]CrudelyAnimated 3 points4 points  (3 children)

              I am completely surprised this isn't where they keep the opioids. I mean, the Family Planning section would be hilarious. Have them squeak open the giant vault door so Frank can go browse the XXL condom shelf. But this just seems like exactly where a pharmacy would put the Fentanyl.

              [–]jruschme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              Don't you mean the razor cartridges? :-)

              [–]MeaninglessTime 6 points7 points  (0 children)

              Lmao why does this look like a high end shitpost

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                [–]acol0mbian[S] 3 points4 points  (6 children)

                Lol I was just there yesterday and thought “this is mildly interesting” … of course everything has already been posted before

                [–]PeyroniesCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                “Gotta keep that krill oil safe!”

                [–]Isolat_3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                So do y’all pronounce it vitamin or vitamin?

                [–]sergeantpickle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                All of our stores will look like this soon.

                [–]Princess_Minou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                "Due to the depletion of the soil, almost all foods are random mixtures and synthetic foods. Since the year 2074 researchers have proven the clear deficiency of these foods to guarantee a correct vitality. The global life expectancy has dropped by 30% and the world population is estimated to be between 10-20 billion, some continental areas have not been counted for a long time.

                In half a century, the number of stillbirths has multiplied by 18, and demographers fear that only 7% of the current population can produce a new generation.

                The cause: a cruel lack of vitamin.

                Indeed, the laboratories all manufacture synthetic meat and very little medicine, extremely expensive to make. The price of gold has collapsed, a bag of vitamin pills is worth the equivalent of 1 month of food. The international vitamin reserves are called "VV" :"Vitamin Vault", and are reserved for a lucky few.""

                [–]nontimebomala67 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                I love how they call it the vitamin vault

                [–]lemurrhino 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                If only it were something more interesting then vitamins.

                [–]gapball 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                The Walgreens on Denny Way in Downtown Seattle by the Space Needle used to be a bank but they don't have a cool vault and it legit just looks like a Walgreens.

                At least I never saw a vault anywhere there the several years I was a vendor there.

                [–]MrThird312 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                Fun fact, I got my Covid vaccinations at this very Walgreens, recognized this instantly.

                [–]browncoat_girl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                There's a target like that in New York City.

                [–]escaping-reality 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                This is so cool, reminds me of Fallout lol

                [–]VenialAJ144 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                I have a Walgreens or CVS that looks like a cathedral. I think it was an old time theater but ya

                [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                Is that walgreens ran by goblins by any chance?

                [–]Rosstafari 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                For a Walgreens, it’s a pretty cool building. They have little displays inside about historical medications, and the lobby is about as impressive as a drugstore can be.

                [–]hondoford 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                New San Francisco Walgreens opened today…

                [–]Giocri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                Bank vaul always feels so eccessive and scenic like does it really matter if the door has 32 or 16 cilinders in their locking mechanism I doubt anyone could successfully break in regardless. I wonder how much of what is in a bank is more about the sense of security rather than dealing with a concrete threat.

                [–]tooterfish_popkin 7 points8 points  (2 children)

                [–]BrokenWhimsy3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                I’m not sure what you’re trying to accomplish with that. I hadn’t seen this before and found it interesting.

                Furthermore, the top five links had ages between 2 and 5 years old.

                [–]mackinator3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                I saw this picture a few weeks ago. Or a substantially similar one at the exact same location.

                [–]Ardothbey 4 points5 points  (6 children)

                that's really cool. Might be necessary in Chicago though.

                [–]rockshow4070 7 points8 points  (2 children)

                It’s really not. Even if this particular Walgreens wasn’t in a nice neighborhood no one is staging a vitamin heist.

                [–]Raj_from_queens 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                It's the pharmacy right behind the vitamins that would get looted.............

                [–]croussore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                yep been there