Several dozen customers visited Winchester Pharmacy, which opened on Monday at the former Winchester Drug space at 568 Main St.
Several dozen customers visited Winchester Pharmacy on Monday for the store's opening at the former Winchester Drug space at 568 Main St. "The first day has been great. We've seen a lot more people come in than I had expected to see," said Steve MacNeill, president and co-owner of Winchester Pharmacy. "The stories we've gotten about this location and people just telling us about the history of the town...this town is just unbelievable. I could not ask for a better location and a better situation for us to get started." While the outside of the building still has the Winchester Drug sign, there have been some changes made to the location. "We actually renovated the space by putting a hardwood floor down, pulled the pharmacy out and added …
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With careful attention to customers' needs, Winchester Drug has cultivated a loyal following, but still finds itself struggling to hang on.
On a recent weekday afternoon, Winchester Drug is quiet for a moment. The store seems to have been frozen in time decades ago, with its small scale and its wood-paneled back wall spelling out "pharmacy" in '50s-style script. Then, just when pharmacy manager and tech Syd Anderson thinks there’s a lull, she is suddenly called to the phone. Customers trickle in steadily and wait until she’s off her call. Anderson greets each one by name, retrieving prescriptions for one customer, checking insurance coverage for another whose plan has changed. Anderson has worked at the store for 44 years. When she was 15-years-old, she started out working at the soda counter, back when Winchester Drug was located down the street. The soda counter closed by …
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JT
12:42 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
It's great to see Winchester Drugstore open for business again as the new Winchester Pharmacy. Our family has been in to welcome the new owners and we look forward to patronizing the new store with its friendly owners/staff who are ready to serve the community's health needs. It's a bonus to see "Syd" working there again--and also to anticipate free medication delivery in the future--something … more ›