Show 41 eit mil 1 I Wis avish hyou you would sive give ive m me on the square you idea of the profits of a prescription dru dra druggist waist galst I 1 well weli its hard to figu figure re lt it out exactly or even ao average lt it you yau see the tIffie consumed in making up tip a prescription the cost of the drugs etc vary greatly and andy besides druggists have different ways of charging for them but ill give you yoli an actual occurrence and you may ludge judge for yourself I 1 was selling some goods to a druggist arold ar old oid customer of our house c one ne day jy ina lna in a a thousand miles from this city when a man came in for a prescription prescript which ha he had bad previously askey ordered how much miloh is it he ne asked sixty five cents answered the druggist that pretty steep asked aske d the moan inan roan 10 0 no we anford afford to put it up for foi a cent less answered the with every appearance of frankness after I 1 had finished my mv bus business Idess with the druggist said I 1 smilingly say smith just fortun for fun lets figure up bilat what that 6 cent prescription cost you all right said he smiling sniffing also aiso so we figured it up carefully including every possible item his time at the rate of 5 a day the cost of the drugs bottle bottie label cork twine wrapping paper a er etc the calculation was rather X difficult mault at times seeing that the labels cost but 28 23 cents per 1000 the corks 24 cents per gross etc iut Jut we stuck to it and the most we could make that go 65 cent prescription cost was V GH cents it happened to be one that required no mixing it and the component parts were cheap but I 1 guess it was a fair sample all the same by the way yai vai did you ever notice thata thava druggist yat se seldom om charges 25 50 or 75 cents for a prescription he charges 2 20 QT or 30 45 or 55 53 70 or 80 cents it looks as though he was chang charging 9 upon a fixed scale instead of guessing at it with a liberal margin sor for tor pro profit t abu bu see it looks better too especially if the mhd dad druggist giat stops and thinks a moment before announcing the price druggists size their customers and charge accor accordingly dingy dinTy with an extra dime di or r quarter qt arter added I 1 it the customers is unfortunate enough to be a trifle green r e en 1 maas rans ka kans kansas as city star |