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{ Amazon, Target, Walmart } happened. In the 80s the local pharmacy was your primary source of sundries, towns and cities alike. Everything from hardware to to
by donnachangstein 2y ago
{ Amazon, Target, Walmart } happened.
In the 80s the local pharmacy was your primary source of sundries, towns and cities alike. Everything from hardware to toys to medicine. If the local pharmacy didn't have it, you didn't buy it.
Now with hoards of Chinese shit available at your fingertips to order with same-day delivery, pharmacies couldn't survive on selling medicine alone, of which there are very small margins.
San Francisco and other cities making widespread theft and shoplifting de facto legal didn't help either. Local mom & pop pharmacies can't afford to put the entire store behind glass.
- shermantanktop 2y agoRural resentment of cities is as old as the hills. I don’t know what the solution is. Price supports to keep small pharmacies alive? Heavy regulation of e-commerce? I’m no free-market zealot, but it’s hard to see how you blunt this impact in a non-heavy-handed way.
- throwawaysleep 2y agoWait for them to actually care about it. Where I live, rural areas are supposedly desperately short of doctors but the rural people can’t stop whining about them always wanting more money and to not be berated for being brown or gay. Why is a solution needed if the people it supposedly impacts hardly care?