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Pharmacy, Cosmetics, Health and Beauty Aids, General Merchandise, Snacks. Genovese Drug Stores was a pharmacy chain with stores in New York City, Long Island, northern New Jersey, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and Hartford County, Connecticut. It was acquired by JCPenney in 1998 and merged with its Eckerd Corporation subsidiary.
C. O. Bigelow was founded, as The Village Apothecary Shop, by Dr. Galen Hunter in 1838 in New York's Greenwich Village and is the oldest surviving apothecary–pharmacy in the United States. [1] In the late 1800's, the pharmacy was purchased by Clarence Otis Bigelow, who renamed the store after himself.
Duane Reade Inc. ( / dweɪn ˈriːd / dwayn REED) is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance. Its stores are primarily in New York (metropolitan New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, and Fairfield counties) and in New Jersey. They are known for high-volume, small store layouts in densely ...
The degree symbol (°), which is commonly used as an abbreviation for hours (e.g., "q 2-4°" for every 2–4 hours), should not be used, since it can be confused with a '0' (zero). Further, the use of the degree symbol for primary, secondary, and tertiary (1°, 2°, and 3°) is discouraged, since the former could be confused with quantities (i ...
Kinney Drugs is a chain of approximately 100 drugstores throughout central and northern New York and Vermont. [2] The company was founded in 1903 by Burt Orrin Kinney, a native of Gouverneur, New York. The first drugstore was opened in Gouverneur and is currently in operation. [3] In 1962, a distribution center was opened.
Rexall. Rexall was a chain of American drugstores, and the name of their store-branded products. The stores, having roots in the federation of United Drug Stores starting in 1903, licensed the Rexall brand name to as many as 12,000 drug stores across the United States from 1920 to 1977. The "Rex" in the name was derived from the name of Ellen M ...
The first "drugstores" in North America "appeared in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia," [11] with likely proto-drugstores—for example Gysbert van Imbroch ran a "general store" that sold drugs from 1663 to 1665 in Wildwyck, New Netherland, [12] today's Kingston, New York—preceding the dedicated apothecary shops of the 1700s, and providing a model.
The Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy, formerly known as the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, is a graduate school of the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University (LIU), a private university with two campuses in New York. The pharmacy school was founded in 1886 and is one of the oldest in the United States. It became affiliated with ...