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Retail pharmacies in the US are dying dozens a day. I have a lot of pharmacist relatives. This is news to them.

• Scoundreller 2mo ago
  Store count seems to have peaked in 2018. Yes that data goes to 2021 but I doubt it got better after that. https://schaeffer.usc.edu/research/pharmacy-closures-united-states-health-affairs/ https://schaeffer.usc.edu/research/pharmacy-closures-united-... The bigger thing is consolidation and independents being replaced by bigger fish because their leverage is very very low.
  • gamblor956 2mo ago
    If you read the data you would have observed that a large chunk of those store closures were by the big retail pharmacy chains, which blows your central thesis out of the water.
    • Scoundreller 2mo ago
      Maybe in absolute numbers but the situation for the ma and pa operations is worse: “Independent pharmacies, often excluded from networks by pharmacy benefit managers, were more than twice as likely to face closure compared to chain pharmacies.”