Batson’s Drug Retailer looks as if a throwback to an easier time. The independently owned pharmacy in Howard, Kansas, nonetheless runs an old school soda counter and hand-dips ice cream. However the drugstore, the one one in the complete county, teeters on the sting between nostalgia and extinction.
Julie Perkins, pharmacist and proprietor of Batson’s, graduated from the native highschool and returned after pharmacy faculty to purchase the pharmacy greater than twenty years in the past. She and her husband purchased the grocery retailer subsequent door in 2006 to assist diversify income and put the pharmacy on firmer footing.
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