https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/why_are_thousands_of_pharmacies_closing.html
Why are Thousands of Pharmacies Closing?
American Thinker, by James Stansbury
Posted By: DW626, 1/26/2024 5:32:35 AM
About five years ago the only pharmacy in my small town in rural Virginia closed. A year or so later a second county drugstore failed. Soon the owner of the last remaining drugstore in the county was unable to make a profit and had to sell. (These last two managed to reopen at a later date.) I was unaware the loss of our drugstores was a nationwide trend until reading an article by Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. She reported that mom-and-pop drugstores in rural areas were particularly hard hit, leaving about 630 rural communities with no pharmacy by 2018.
DIR fees and PBM’s have driven many independent pharmacists out of business.
There's open war on small businesses.