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    Why do pharmacies/drug stores have the corner entrances?

    Question #120268. Asked by HannahConner88. (Feb 08 11 3:49 AM)


    serpa

    		"Again, the door is set in the corner to ensure the best lines of sight."

    http://theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/fortresspharm.html


    Feb 08 11, 10:48 AM
    Baloo55th

    		They don't when they're in the middle of a block. Almost every corner shop in older developments in the UK has a diagonal door, no matter what they sell. Some modern ones (especially ones designed by architects who think they are artists) don't. Bigger shops tend to not use diagonals, as they want more space for double doors. I've never been quite sure what a drug store is. In the UK we have chemists' shops, which are occasionally called pharmacies by the company, but that's a term not used by ordinary people unless they wannabe posh.

    Feb 08 11, 12:09 PM
    star_gazer

    		Huge chain drug stores are everywhere in the US. Here I have never seen the term "Chemist' shop"; however, rarely I do see an older pharmacy that is called an apothecary.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apothecary

    Feb 08 11, 11:47 PM
    HannahConner88

    		Thanks serpa, Baloo55th and star_gazer. I have often wondered why this was; especially when I drive by the two the next town over from my own. It is a CVS and Rite Aid and they're right across from each other (face to face), with a road in between. It's like driving through an ongoing 'drug war'. I find it kind of funny! -Make a turn here at the pharmacy duel...

    Feb 09 11, 7:19 AM

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