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The entire point of a "modern drug store" is to fill prescriptions. All of those grocery items, etc. are there just to supplement the prescription business, whi
by Molitor5901 2y ago
The entire point of a "modern drug store" is to fill prescriptions. All of those grocery items, etc. are there just to supplement the prescription business, which far and away is the bulk of revenue for that location. It's like gas stations that sell food.
- deadbabe 2y agoWhy hasn’t someone created a pure prescription play with very small real estate and focused only on filling prescriptions?
- datadrivenangel 2y agoYou can't get a lease that small in most areas.
- esafak 2y agoWhy?
- rincebrain 2y agoBecause usually leases aren't new custom property sizes, they're of existing spaces, and if only your kind of thing will fit in there, why would they carve up their larger space to have spots that size?
- deadbabe 2y agoWhy not? Seems like there’d be a lot of use cases for it. Think small take-out only ghost kitchen setups.
- dreamcompiler 2y agoThese used to exist: Think of something like a drive-thru Starbucks that only dispenses prescriptions and you cannot walk inside. But I haven't seen one since the 80s.
- divbzero 2y agoYes, and it’s only baffling now because the “modern drug store” is no longer the only game in town when it comes to filling prescription. Grocery stores (Safeway), big box stores (Walmart), wholesalers (Costco), and online retailers (Amazon) are all in on the business.
- aworks 2y agoI switched my prescriptions from Walgreens to Safeway. Better service on medications and better selection of other stuff.
- Molitor5901 2y agoI did the same away from CVS.
- scarface_74 2y agoThere are a lot of drug store locations though that don’t have pharmacists and others where the pharmacists work limited hours compared to the rest of the store.
- teeray 2y agoThis is also why the pharmacy counter is at the back of the store. They are praying that in your journey back there you find that you needed some cosmetic, a quart of half-and-half, can of Pringles, etc.
- bongodongobob 2y agoThe gas station analogy is backwards. Gas stations exist to sell snacks, soda, and cigs. Gas is like 5% of profit.
- gottorf 2y ago> It's like gas stations that sell food. The bulk of the profit margin for gas stations come from things other than fuel sales, i.e. the convenience store.
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoHuh. No wonder. In .de that must have been because of their opening times, many of them 24/7. But that convenience stuff was always more expensive, and depending on your taste and preferences not especially desirable. Mostly tabac and alcoholics, I guess. That was pre-Covid. Post-covid full greedflation set in. Like two to five times more expensive, than the also more expensive stuff in supermarkets. Memories from about 1.5 years ago, for something on 'special sale' for €9,99(20 Deutsche Mark, Alder, Ey!), a 0,33L can of some whiskey-coke, which sells for about €2,50 to €3 normally. Bag of chips, €4,99(10 Mark!1!!), single candy bar, €3,99 WTF?! I don't see that to this level in the .us for comparable stuff.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoCVS retail prices for grocery and other miscellaneous items are so high that I want to stop everyone I see shopping there and lecture them about the math of buying elsewhere. Their membership offers a monthly store credit of $10 at a monthly cost of only $5 and it still barely feels worthwhile.