The 100 -year -old San Francisco pharmacy is closed with the owner’s retirement

Family -owned pharmacy This was the cornerstone of the San Francisco community for more than 100 years closing on Tuesday.

Jerry Tonley, the owner of the central pharmaceutical store in the Excels, posted on Facebook last month that he was retired after he was a living pharmacist for 50 years. The last day of the store was planned after its historic operation on July 15, according to the mail.

The Tonelli family has been serving the community since the business in 1965. However, the roots of the institution in the region work much deeper, dating back to the early twentieth century.

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“We are a small pharmacy, but they are a small pharmacy. We are proud that we say that we have surpassed Walgrens, CVS, Rite Aid and postal orders services. I am pleased to say that this is my choice and I will leave on my own conditions,” Tonley said in the notice posted on the store page on Facebook. “It is time for all of us to start a new stage in our lives and spend more time with our families.”

The family continued to say that the pharmaceutical store would not be present if not for its customers, who stood next to the family after that He took over.

This announcement was met with the flow of support from customers who expressed the importance of work in society.

“I cannot tell you how many lives that affected it,” a customer commented.

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Another said: “I can’t put words, her central drugs, and the tonelli family was mine and my family for more than 50 years.”

One of the clients published: “I was very sad to hear that you were leaving after all these years of your hard work and dedication to all your customers, there will be no pharmacist or other pharmacy like you.”

For the tonelli family, the pharmacy was more than just a business. His parents met in the store, Tonley told CBS.

Tonelli took over in his thirties after his father’s death. However, his mother worked in the store until she was 96 years old, according to the port.

Independent pharmacists were struggling with countless Financial and operational pressuresWhich blames many managers of the benefits of pharmacy. PBMS acts as mediators between insurance companies and drug manufacturers and pharmacies, negotiating the prices of medicines and payment rates. PBMS is often associated with large retail chains.

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PBMS claims that they negotiate the prices of drugs to reduce costs for consumers and include independent pharmacies in their networks, and sometimes they return them at higher rates of retail chains. But independent pharmacists Fox Business has already been told that it threatens its business models, as it reduces the payment rates of medicines, which makes it difficult to cover operational costs.

Tonelli explained that his store coincides with the pressure of a giant pharmacy and that he was retired on his “special conditions.” But while Tonelli has managed to survive from the troubled environment in this industry, it is still concerned that other independent pharmacies will continue to force companies.

“The city began to leave Walgrens to enter the city, and what happened after that was that it was usually opened next to the independents, and in the end it was independent to close,” Tonley told CBS.