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They're physical retail locations zoned commercial which, by law, have to be staffed by people making 6 figures.
by patio11 10y ago
They're physical retail locations zoned commercial which, by law, have to be staffed by people making 6 figures.
- petra 10y agoSince going to the pharmacy is a monthly deal and an expensive one, won't people be willing to settle on retail locations and density, to save significant amount of money(Maybe doing a family purchase) ? So that takes care of all the store fixed costs. And such a store would get an high density of customers, so it could always sell them something else. And as for the cost of the pharmacists, in a well run pharmacy, with lower cost employees helping as much as they can, pharmacists can do their jobs very fast, a few short minutes per customer. And even if their salary salary is $1/min(six figures), that isn't much money. EDIT: and btw, in Israel, with our national healthcare, pharmacies are pressed on margins by government/HMO's - and they lose money on drugs(or so the newspapers claim), but profit by selling other stuff(OTC/herbal/cosmetics/etc).
- Fomite 10y agoBetween actually doing their jobs, helping patients and arguing with drug companies and/or doctors, I'd be astonished if the average time/patient for a pharmacist was a few short minutes. My guess is that has a very long tailed distribution.