MAINE TOWN RECRUITS AN INDEPENDENT PHARMACIST
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/maine-town-recruits-independent-pharmacist/Faced with a gap in the local retail base—no pharmacy or bookstore, for example—city officials almost invariably try to lure a national chain into the community. There often seems to be little alternative: how exactly does a town go about establishing a new independent business to fulfill an important function?
While there’s no obvious path and it may well prove more difficult than attracting a chain, officials of Orono, Maine recently demonstrated that it can be done.

