Think about shopping locally
Thompson Falls | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 15 years AGO
“Thank You” to our friends, Margaret at Bearly Read Books and Lisa at Auntie Pamela’s Antiques for urging all of us to shop locally.
Especially consider our local Doug’s Drug and Plains Drug Store. As Medicare gets more expensive, along with the increased cost of mandated insurance, penalties etc, big businesses are rewarded, offering lower prices than our local pharmacies are able to provide. Big Businesses are also urging us to buy all of our medications from them by mail order. How backward and shortsighted is that? Our local pharmacies could easily join the ranks of the endangered species along with many other small businesses, were we to deny them our support. We will not mail order anything available locally.
Remember too, that smiling face behind the counter in a local store just might some day be that smiling, skilled volunteer ambulance attendant in your future.
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Share records
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