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Article: Drug stores must change with the times.
- Article from:
- Chain Drug Review
- Article date:
- June 20, 1994
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I love drug stores. I love the way they look. I love the way they smell. I love the mix of merchandise that they sell. (I used to love drug store soda fountains and cigar bull pens, but those unique features belong to the past.)
When I speak with people who grew up working in drug stores, I feel as if I am engaging in a whimsical reminiscing session with former school chums.
At the recent National Association of Chain Drug Stores Annual Meeting the incoming chairman and Pathmark Stores Inc. chairman and chief executive officer Jack Futterman gave a moving speech in which he spoke of working in his uncle's independent drug store in Columbus, Ohio. It was that ...