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Customers have started to realize that sodas cost less at a grocery store than a drugstore, he said.

As inflation drives everyday costs up, consumers are tightening their belts and may be limiting impulse purchases on items found at a drugstore such as snacks and beauty products.

“That was an actual drugstore with apartments, and the studio rented it for him,” Kahn says.

But, she said, the growing consolidation in the health industry, where health insurance plans own their own pharmacy benefit managers and either own or network with drugstore chains, have made independent pharmacies financially unviable.

The compact corner drugstore, on Southeast Milwaukie Avenue just south of Powell Boulevard, still has glass display cases and shelves filled with old medicine bottles.