On 9/9/2019 12:46 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 12:22:50 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 07:50:32 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 6:54:43 PM UTC-4, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Sat, 07 Sep 2019 20:30:12 -0400, micky
wrote:

OT Big increase in the number of drugstores


Is it just Baltimore or is it the whole country, or something in between
that, 10 or 20 years ago, had a big increase in the number of
drugstores?

All of a sudden they were building them everywhere. Tearing down other
stores to build branches of national chains.

Did this happen where you are?

How many years ago?

Why? Does anyone know why?

It's not likely there were suddently so many more people getting medical
care.
To a large extent because "pharmacies" were allowed to open longer
hours and on holidays because they were "essential"


Where? Canada? In the vast majority of the US pharmacies could be
open whenever they please. A few places might have blue laws that
force them to close on Sunday or something, but why would govt want
to tell pharmacies that they can't be open?





- and they started
sellin non=pharmaceuticals (like food) in response to grocery stores
and supermarkets selling THEIR products.

The drugstore has become the new "corner store" in North America.

That's true, they have more food and other stuff today than in days
gone by.

There is nothing new there.

MAybe not where you are, but it's different here and seems to be
different wherever I've traveled. Forty years ago drug stores were
mostly mom and pop, smaller and they didn't have many of the things
that they have today, eg wide assortment of food, frozen foods,
soups, prepared foods, etc.
Today they are much bigger, they are mostly chains, more of them and
they are full of food and other products.


A friend of a friend owned a mom & pop drugstore about 40 years ago. He
made a living, but he was made an offer he could not refuse. One of the
chains offered to buy him out and they would close the store, but they
also offered him a job at the chain store that was a huge increase over
what he was making and working less hours. He could not lock the store
and turn out the lights fast enough.

IIRC it is five years, maybe six now, of schooling to become a
pharmacist but they do make a good wage.