Talk:Pharmacy (shop)

Stub
This stub needs some work. I imagine that most supermarket pharmacies are owned by the supermarkets themselves (e.g., Kroger), which are large corporations. --128.104.112.159 (talk) 21:53, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Merger proposal

 * Merge Duplicate articles. Safiel (talk) 01:53, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Bad article??
What is "FIP'? Parts of this article need to be internationalized WP:PCR and elaborated upon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.64.161.55 (talk) 03:15, 22 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Also, point 14 (about Australian pharmacies) is a bizarre sentence that doesn't seem to make any sense. 49.183.55.244 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 16:57, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

GOCEreviewed
Stream-of-consciousness essay, mainly backgrounding (definitions & other prerequitistes) rather than on-topic description, with no citations. Needs rewriting as an encyclopedia entry, with sources. --Stfg (talk) 14:50, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Rewrite completed
I have removed the material that was off-topic and provided descriptions of some aspects of community pharmacists and pharmacies, with references. Drchriswilliams (talk) 08:30, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Name change - "Community pharmacy" to "Pharmacy (shop)"
At I asked where the article was for the typical sort of pharmacy which a typical person might visit to get their personal medication. There was some uncertainty. This article existed as "community pharmacy", but that term was not familiar to me as an American and also some aspects of the article made me question whether this was about something European. I looked around and there was no international general article on a community retail shop providing prescription drugs. I adapted this article to be that.

As part of the adaptation I changed the name of this article from "Community pharmacy" to "Pharmacy (shop)". I also listed various other English language names for this concept. Unfortunately I was unable to find sources for any explanation of the different terms used - if anyone has any then please cite something.

Also, I changed the image in the lead from a rather unusual looking Polish storefront to a more common looking typical pharmacy storefront in India. I added a gallery section to community other concepts of pharmacies. I was unable to identify good contemporary pharmacy interior images, so those are lacking. My hope is that a gallery would express in images that this article is about a retail concept that I think is familiar to everyone in some form.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  21:51, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * You participated in this discussion a month ago. The page move is the update.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  21:56, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Merge "drugstore" here
A pharmacy provides prescription drugs and a "drugstore" is a type of store which sells over-the-counter drugs, and might be a convenience store, and might also include a pharmacy.

"Drugstore" might conceivably be its own article but right now, the drugstore article is in poor shape. There are no reliable sources cited. I think that article should be merged here. I just posted a "merge" proposal notice on both articles to check for comment.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  22:03, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * You developed the drugstore article more than anyone else - do you have any opinion on merging "drugstore" to "pharmacy"?  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  22:07, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I executed the merge. Drugstore now redirects to Pharmacy (shop). There was some poorly cited content at "drugstore" which talked about drugstores as a United States cultural institution between 1870-1950, when these places were known for selling soft drinks and providing a social meeting place. I do think that is a distinct idea from a pharmacy, but for this to be in Wikipedia, someone needs to establish notability and cite some sources. Nowadays the terms "drugstore" and "pharmacy" are equivalent, so that plus lack of evidence otherwise led me to do the merge.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  19:56, 15 May 2017 (UTC)