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Originally Posted by Swarly
so because of this they either have to stop the pharmacy, large % of profit, or selling smokes, i'm guessing a nearly equal % profit.
I really do hope some places shut down the pharmacy part, I'd love to see the situation reversed. see the public outcry and the store simply saying we cant have a pharmacy in a place that sells smokes.
I think this will hurt places like shoppers more than you think and wouldnt be surprised if they shut down the pharmacy. I dont see anyone going grocery shopping there. Most of that stuff is only sold if someone is in shoppers anyway for a pack of smokes or picking up prescriptions. If you are in desparate need of milk or eggs then there are countless more macs and 7/11s around that are much more convienient. So either way they are going to see a huge hit to their bottom line.
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People argued that banning smoking in bars would wipe out hundreds of bars...well, they haven't. The local place down the street which cried foul because of the VLT traffic that came into to veg and smoke and play VLT's at 11am on a Tuesday, is still around and still making money.
Shoppers Drug Mart may have too have to adjust to become more then a smoke shop for those who use it as such, but given the diversity of product that they now carry, I'd be surprised if cig sales were its lifeline (no pun intended). Without knowing a lot about the pharmacy side of things, given the price on drugs and perscriptions, eased by the factor that health plans cover the cost of most perscriptions, the markup is are pretty significant. And, those markups I am thinking are a bigger percentage then go into Shoppers coffers then the percentage that they get from every pack of cig sales.