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- Drugstore disasters. American pharmacies are facing a national crisis—as you may have noticed at your local drugstore.
Pharmacists are overworked and fleeing the industry. Big chains are closing hundreds of stores and responding to retail crime fears by locking up the deodorant. Meanwhile, the small independent pharmacies trying to serve their local communities are getting forced out of business as their margins for filling prescriptions get squeezed. For the new issue of Fortune, I dug into why this is all happening, as seen through the story of Bartell’s, a beloved—and slowly dying—Seattle drugstore now owned by Rite Aid.
