Blog

Notes on the economics of independent pharmacy.

Why running a pharmacy has gotten harder, which new service lines actually pay, and how travel medicine fits. Written plainly, with the real numbers where we have them.

Pharmacy economics

The margin squeeze

Loans, shrinking reimbursements, and the three financial seasons every pharmacy owner lives through — and why the math keeps getting tighter.

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Pharmacy economics

The rollercoaster

How pharmacy economics went from the golden years to now — the policy and reimbursement shifts that changed the business under owners' feet.

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Pharmacy economics

The respect gap

Being treated as a dispenser rather than a clinician — and why owning a clinical service line is what actually changes how patients see you.

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Service lines

The most profitable services a pharmacy can add, ranked

A frank ranking of the new service lines worth building — and the case for why travel medicine lands at number one.

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Travel medicine

The Passport Health playbook

How the biggest travel-clinic chain keeps its calendar full — and how our pilot borrows the same strategy for independent clinics.

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Data

We mapped all 321 licensed Yellow Fever centres in Canada

What the public directory of Canada's Yellow Fever vaccination centres actually shows when you put every one of them on a map.

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The pilot

The pilot, explained

Invite-only, we fund it, 10 inquiries, and one honest review. Exactly what the pilot is, who it's for, and where the catch would be if there were one.

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The short version is the pilot.

If you'd rather skip the reading, the pilot page lays out the whole thing on one screen.

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