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I mean, you might have a big safe, but it’s nothing like a built-in bank vault. Though the “we just do meds” pharmacies are dying out in Canada as the margin i
by Scoundreller 2y ago
I mean, you might have a big safe, but it’s nothing like a built-in bank vault.
Though the “we just do meds” pharmacies are dying out in Canada as the margin is increasingly in the unregulated (price) over-the-counter products and you increasingly need the buying power of being a part of a chain for both meds and over-the-counter stuff.
Sure if you can specialize in something you can survive against the chains, but it’s a slog.
- mandevil 2y agoMy wife (1) says that is largely true too here in the US, that independent pharmacies are getting hammered on reimbursement rates and dropping like flies. But the NYTimes article says that the total number of pharmacies has stayed relatively constant since 2018, but that the number of big box chain pharmacies has dropped by half, so there might be some weird NYC exception to the general behavior? 1: She works in a hospital now, so she's not directly exposed to this, but she's worked in retail before and has plenty of friends who still do.