You can pick up a hamburger at McDonald’s, your allergy pills at Walgreens, your extra foamy latte at Starbucks and the cash to pay for it at your bank all without leaving your car, thanks to an American invention called the drive-through.
But when it comes to weekly shopping, aside from regional convenience stores like the Dairy Barn, staying in your car hasn’t been an option. Until now.
During the past year, the Chicago area has turned into a retail test ground for mass merchants to experiment with drive-throughs. Sears Holdings Corp. started last spring by turning a Kmart store in Joliet into a drive-through warehouse, renaming the outpost MyGofer. Meijer Inc. followed suit with GroceryExpress drive-ups at stores in St. Charles and Aurora. And Wal-Mart Stores Inc. opened its first drive-through at a recently remodeled store in Mount Prospect.
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