Owner Of Pharmacy Moving Into Solo Will Offer Coke Floats, Doesn’t Mince Words

If you’ve been wondering why someone would choose to open a third pharmacy on Cortelyou between Marlborough and E 16th, the Brooklyn Paper has your answer–owner Julie Khenkin, who owns Sav-Morx on Avenue U, says they’ll be offering products and services that Greenfield and Duane Reade down the block just can’t match. In addition to organic products (that surely nowhere else around here carries), the pharmacy will have a soda fountain–and… a neighborhood feel?

Julie insists “there’s no one to talk to” at Duane Reade, and that Greenfield caters only to a sliver of the community–and the kind words don’t stop there. And of her soon-to-be neighbors who’d rather have seen another bar replace Solo, Julie says, “Most of them are alcoholics.”

Seems like a strange business strategy insulting a major chain, an independent pharmacy that’s been in the neighborhood for decades, and your potential customers in one fell swoop, but maybe your experiences at other local pharmacies have been different from ours.

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