Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Nov 2021
The last drugstore: rural America is losing its pharmacies
10 November 2021 - Over 40 million rural Americans live in pharmacy deserts because of market consolidation.
Batson’s Drug Store seems like a throwback to a simpler time. The independently owned pharmacy in Howard, Kan., still runs an old-fashioned soda counter and hand-dips ice cream.
But the drugstore, the only one in the entire county, teeters on the edge between nostalgia and extinction.
