Shoppers Drug Mart is no doubt an iconic brand here in
Canada. With over 1200 retail outlets
across the country, Canadians can count on this leading drug store retailer to
provide us with the vital medicines we all need to survive and flourish in the
modern age. Founder Murray Koffler’s
ambition was to “build a national organization of pharmacies without
sacrificing the personalized service of the local community pharmacist”. Yes, indeed, it’s that personal touch we get
from those community-oriented employees.
Never mind that these wages oftentimes prohibit them from living in the
very community they work in.
But that’s just the realities of the free market. We can’t
obstruct that which has provided us with so much good. As a
reputable, responsible company, they can’t go around paying people community
living wages and still benefit from sky high margins that come with pricing
well beyond their competitors. Where
else can you see discrepancies in prices as high as 40-50% range compared with
their competitors?
And it’s indeed the spirit of this free market we so hold
dear that brings us the many innovative and life-saving products that now
populate today’s Shoppers Drug Mart. Just
walking through the doors, consumers are instantaneously greeted with the light
aroma of toxic chemicals that pervade their cosmetics and beauty products section. And at one-third of the store’s footprint, you
can’t possibly miss it. And what about
all the wonderfully processed food that can wait months on shelves for us to
purchase them, topped off by a barrage of refined sugar and salt packed confectionery
products that together make up a second third of the store.
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What’s important here is that Shoppers Drug Mart is there to
provide you with all the health care products you need to cope with the irritated
eyes and skin, headache, heart disease, stomach ache, diabetes and obesity that
you’ll likely get as you consume the rest of the products in the store.
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