DISAPEARANCE OF WASHINGTON D.C. AREA WHOLESALE DRUG CORPORATIONS
I worked for District Wholesale Drug 52 0 Street, Washington, D.C. from 1950 to 1959.
District Wholesale provided pharmaceuticals and health and beauty aids normally sold in Drug stores, to the hundreds of small independent pharmacies in the Washington, D.C. area,,during the 50’s and 60’s.
District Wholesale was a distributor of Eli Lilly pharmaceuticals such as insulin and other drugs. .The small drug stores who needed Eli Lilly pharmaceuticals could not purchase these drugs direct from the manufacturer. The pharmacies could only obtain Lilly drugs from District Wholesale or Gilpin Drug wholesalers
As time progressed the CVS Drugstore Chain bought the Peoples Drug store chain, and another Drug store chain, Rite aide,
purchased the Drug Fair Pharmacy Chain. Another corporation formed a new smaller drug chain Dart Drug.
As these Drug store chains grew, the smaller pharmacies could not compete, and began to close their doors.
Later on, District Wholesale merged with an out of town Drug Store wholesaler.
In time, District Wholesale closed and the Gilpin Wholesalers went bankrupt.
Large Super Markets also opened Pharmacies in their stores.
Many large pharmacies also opened grocery departments.
When the large 5 & 10 stores shut their doors, many small businesses followed suite.
Today as we all know, the AMAZON ON LINE CORPORATIO
SELLS EVERYTHING.
WHAT’S NEXT????
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