The thing about that CVS though is that, even though some of the cashiers socialize with each other more than doing the job they were paid to do, they are still somewhat decent to the customers. At the Rite Aid at 17th and Chestnut they are downright rude. I once went in there and not only was the cashier busy socializing with the one enxt to her but she kept on snapping at me because I put my credit card through the reader before it was ready. A simple "please wait until I'm finished" would have been fine. Instead she yelled "DON'T DO THAT!" and then turned back to telling the cashier next to her about the hot date she was on the night before. I filled out an on-line complaint on the Rite Aid site - never heard back.

I had a bad experience at that Rite Aid, too, about 18 months ago: There was one woman behind the counter and a LONG line. As I came to the front of the line, a woman who worked at the Rite Aid but wasn't on duty cut in front of me, grabbed a candy bar from the rack, and started bs'ing with the middle-aged woman who was working! "Can you put this on my tab, i'll pay it tomorrow, etc etc". FOR LIKE 2 MINUTES! Nothing but BS'ing back and forth! I finally said "Can you do this LATER?". The girl who was off duty gave me a dirty look and the woman who was working started giving me crap! Saying I didn't need to treat them like children, etc etc.

It's dissappointing to see that it hasn't changed much.

La Colombe all the way!

If you can put up with the pretentious Euro crowd, it's far and away the best cup of coffee on the East Coast. Drink it down!

check out the quotes that load at random at the top of this page here: http://www.lacolombe.com/business.html

If they're all legit, that's some impressive endorsement.

I'm not a big coffee drinker, prefer Chai myself, but I'd show your friends something totally different like a tour of the College of Physicians museum. Everyone is into CSI stuff it seems, and the museum is world class.

What's so wrong with Euro croud???( I'm from Europe myself)

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All CC staff seems to be that way..At least those who don't work on comission... I just got this feeling having moved from suburbs.... I do like family establishments here, though

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I actually go to La Columbe BECAUSE I like the Euro crowd. Where else in CC can you here french, german etc being spoken in the background? But it does seem that there are far fewer of them now that they banned smoking!

Nothing wrong with the Euro crowd. Note that it's the *pretentious* Euro crowd that's annoying. There are good Euros and there are annoying Euros. I'm sure you're the charming kind.

Thank god for the smoking ban, by the way. I now spend more money on coffee than on beer thanks to La Columbe's smoking ban!