Posted on 04/01/2005 4:38:31 PM PST by traderrob6
Wanted to know if you really understood small town reality. Since you grew up in a small town, it would appear that you should. A lot of people don't.
Heck, that town may no longer even have that drugstore! I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the Wal-Marts and other big chains in the neighboring towns have absorbed all that business.
Chains have absorbed much of the business. Really small towns is about the only place that you can find an owner-operated drugstore anymore. I just shifted my business to a drugstore in the local grocery store because I was exasperated w/ Shopko thinking I had to shop for at least 30 minutes before I could pick up my prescription. Not a smart business practice when the customer is there to pick up antibiotics & pain medication that their doctor phoned in. Is it too much to expect the pharmacist to look at a prescription & determine that the customer probably doesn't feel like trying on shoes?
The people who [you] want to control everything from whether you can get drug x to whether you have to sell that drug are the problem.
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Yeah I tend toward your position. I am not sure why the government should control so many substances whether for medical purposes or not. I was merely pointing out what I viewed as a little hypocracy on this. If you are willing to make your money selling what the government controls and we know that control may create economic rents, then you have less room to complain if the government says you then must sell all of the substances they control. But I personally favor less government intrusion in this and most areas.
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