Friday 22 August 2014

Nothing but opportunities

Well,

here's the story.  I'm in a small town and there was a rumour that another pharmacy was going to open its doors, a big one.  That was last year.  There was this new building being built and that was where it was supposed to be.  In the building, there was also supposed to be a medical clinic...  Yeah right.

Anyway, the owner of this building came to see me last year with these informations and asked if I was interested in moving my pharmacy there.  Now, in this town, there's already another pharmacy, we're two.  And the population isn't high enough for three.  His project is a good one but only in it's fetal stage at this point, and he has nothing concrete to show (regarding the medical clinic).

So I say no, and start working on plans to renovate the front of the pharmacy which definitely needs revamping.  I go with this company from a neighbouring town and they start aiming for construction in May.

Meanwhile, the other building owner works hard to find another pharmacist interested in opening up this other pharmacy.  Nobody's yet interested because the project of opening the medical clinic on the second floor still isn't panning out.

So May comes along, delays...  Renovations can't start yet.  Juin, the same.  July, again the same...  I'm starting to get doubtful that the project will start this summer at all.

So august comes along and the other building owner contacts me again.  He finally got 4 doctors to open the medical clinic in October, with 2 more doctors coming in in January.  Now a bunch of pharmacists are interested.

I jump on the chance now.  I guess the delays were a Godsend after all.  I should be opening in the new building in december or january.  We're expecting a 20 to 25% increase in sales in the first year.  Can't wait to see how everything will work out.

Still got a lot of work ahead though.  I have to create a brand new pharmacy within a barren local.

Should be fun!!!