They won't be there in 10 years. Most independent drugstores have given up and gone as the big drugstores come into town. ... It's kind of the end of an era.
Quotes about drugstores (10 Quotes)
We think the overall pressures on pharmacy sales at the drugstores may continue as Medicare Part D begins amidst challenging comparisons from a late coldflu season last year.
When I was a kid, there were no comic shops anywhere, ... I used to walk all over downtown Greensboro with the money from my paper route, going from the newsstands to the drugstores and hotels, looking for comics. I used to dream that just around the next corner I would find a store that sold nothing but comics.
Still, Miller was upbeat about Rite Aid's future. We had two big events (the restatement and the sale of its PCS Health Systems unit) that we got behind us that will allow us now to spend 100 percent of our time working on running good drugstores and taking care of our customers, ... and we're confident we can be successful doing that.
These are also the people who want health and comfort establishments near their homes -- drugstores, grocery stores, nice gas stations, dry cleaners. These things are not yet available in the Downtown area.
Mr. and Mrs. Baker were consummate professionals who taught us a lot that we didn't get through our classroom training. Mr. Baker was a father figure to me, and he was an inspiration to a lot of graduates who went on to own their own drugstores in Florida and throughout the nation.
You have drug addicts that are now walking around this city looking for a fix, and that's the reason why they were breaking in hospitals and drugstores. They're looking for something to take the edge off of their jones, if you will.
We've seen all of the drugstores have softer results so the flu season appears to be part of it. There certainly can be some noise surrounding Medicare implementation, and that may be having a little bit of an impact on (prescription) volumes on the near term, but I don't know that it's anything more than that.
It probably won't mean much lower prices. It's going to obviously give consumers greater convenience, and that's what consumers want with drugstores.
Every year we see our prescription sales increase ... up to 63 percent of our sales now. At the same time, people are living longer, well into their 80s and approaching 100. So we're getting drugstores in place to meet the current demand but also looking ahead 5, 10, 20 years from now to make sure we have stores in place to meet that demand.