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[push-stars.livejournal.com]

Wow, Score one for Mom and Pop! Apparently, it is now cheaper to get prescription drugs from a neighborhood pharmacy vrs a large chain store. click here for a recent study Does anyone have any experience with Drug stores nearby that they really like? Are there any around here? I know there is one by my place in Inman that I am going to try out, I miss having people know my name and it does'nt hurt to save a few bucks. Click here to see how a little ground work paved the way for this, maybe other communities can do stuff like this at the municipal level for their local favorites?

 

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[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

what is up with your formatting dude?

[ron_newman]

I don't think Somerville has any Mom and Pop pharmacies left -- just CVS, Brooks, and Walgreens. If I'm wrong, please correct me.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

I've used inman since i moved to boston 5 years ago with only one complaint in 5 years. (They filled a prescription for something that the FDA recently put out a HUGE warning about without including the HUGE warning. Of course, I gave the doc. who wrote the prescription a big talking to about writing the scrip to begin with...)

[magid.livejournal.com]

There's Skendarian Apothecary on Cambridge St. in Cambridge, though that's not particularly close to Davis. They've impressed me any number of times, so they get my business.

Plus, they've got a cool skeleton mural on the side of their building :-).

[ron_newman]

There used to be a couple of non-chain pharmacies in Harvard Square, but I think they've either gone out of business or become non-pharmacies. (For a while, one of them became just a soda fountain.)

Also, Kendall Drug in Kendall Square closed last year. I wish a chain pharmacy had moved in to replace it; what good is a Fidelity Investments office in a student neighborhood?

Sadly....

[mattdm [typekey.com] (from livejournal.com)]

This is not really a win. It just means that the large chains have strangled the little ones to the point where they don't need to use predatory pricing to compete anymore. It's pretty much the standard form -- large chain moves in, everyone thinks "wow, so much better prices than the outdated old local store", and then when the local store goes out of business, up go the prices. Right now, we're at the point where the local stores are fighting tooth and nail to not die out, and the big chains are doing so well they don't even have to care.