The conception of your pharmacy design is absolutely essential to the success of your pharmacy. So, there are a number of goals that you'll want to accomplish with the layout of your pharmacy:
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It once seemed as though the days of the "old time" independent pharmacy were fading, replaced by the convenience of the "big box" stores and mega marts that carried everything from bedding to beauty products, groceries to lawn mowers.
However, as a society, we’re finally starting to realize the importance of appreciating what really matters, which includes our health and wellness. Sure, the benefits of one-stop shopping are great. But what do you do there if you have questions? Can you really trust the staff to know as much about antibiotics as they do anti-freeze? Does the environment instill a feeling of camaraderie and trust? Or is it cold and merely efficient, making you feel isolated and rushed?
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Building a new pharmacy can be exciting and daunting at the same time. There are so many pieces and moving parts for you to consider and to make your best decision (and sometimes your best guess!) on.
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Harsh overhead lighting with a significant glare.
Fluorescent lighting "tubes" that create an uncomfortable, almost indiscernible "buzz" that can literally give your customers a headache
These were the pharmacy lighting options of old, but no more!
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You do everything you can to make your customers and patients comfortable so that their shopping experience is as pleasant and stress-free as possible. However, there's a new trend on the rise in pharmacy design, and it's something that you might even enjoy for yourself as well: Bringing the outdoors in.
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If you're in a building or expansion phase, your new pharmacy must seem exciting to you. This is the perfect opportunity to create just the right layout, fixtures, and function from scratch – no more making do with someone else's vision of what it should be.
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As an independent pharmacist, you serve your customers to the best of your ability. You fill prescriptions for your patients' medications and provide counsel on those medications, true, but at least part of your business probably also deals with selling merchandise.
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You have always done what is best for your customers, and that has set you apart from your most challenging competitors.
Today, however, it is not just about providing your customers stellar service, personalized attention, or even services like home delivery that most retail pharmacies don't even think to offer. Read MoreTopics: pharmacy design
Change is afoot in pharmacy today. New regulations, competition, and the need to intensify focus your customers have all changed how you must do business.
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Ideally, your pharmacy design should be set up to optimize customers' convenience and make their shopping experience as enjoyable as possible. By doing so, you are not only catering to (and caring for) your customers, but you're improving your bottom line.
Making the customers' shopping experience better naturally boosts your profits because if customers are comfortable, they will more often come in, relax, stay and shop longer, instead of "dashing in and dashing out" for bare-bones must have items like prescriptions. Take a look at some of the benefits of good pharmacy design:
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