‘My son likes a pancake syrup that...

‘My son likes a pancake syrup that is carried locally by a Longs Drug store. My guess is that in the future I’ll have to ask some store to special order it for me because CVS won’t carry it. Bigger is better only for the owners.’

-- Warren

Cereghino,

Pacific Palisades,

on Wednesday’s story about CVS Caremark Corp.’s $2.6-billion bid to buy Longs Drug Stores Corp.