Latrobe's Medicine Shoppe location closes after more than 25 years - TribLIVE

After much than 25 years of business, Sue Schropp, proprietor of The Medicine Shoppe successful Latrobe since 1996, has closed the autarkic pharmacy’s doors for good.

“I’m excited, but it is bittersweet,” Schropp said. “I made galore bully friends and with taking attraction of each the radical implicit the years, they’re much than conscionable patients, they’re really much similar family.”

Schropp decided she was acceptable for retirement, and volition beryllium spending much clip with her family.

“I’m 67, it was time. We’re bare nesters but we’re truly excited to beryllium capable to walk immoderate much clip with the household and conscionable relax,” she said.

As an autarkic pharmacy owner, she admitted it was sometimes challenging to vie with concatenation outlets.

“It’s benignant of getting hard for autarkic pharmacies,” Schropp said. “We were a franchise, but we were independently owned. I deliberation it’s sad, but a batch of autarkic pharmacies are closing.”

Schropp looks backmost fondly connected the memories she made astatine the Medicine Shoppe. She, her pharmacy unit and household person been actively progressive successful assemblage events, and she sometimes asked them to spell supra and beyond whenever her pharmacy was progressive successful a municipality gathering.

“I made them bash a batch due to the fact that we were ever truthful progressive successful the community,” Schropp said. “We did a batch with Holly Jolly, the Banana Split Festival and Mr. Rogers Family Days. I’ve made my sons formal up successful bunny rabbit outfits, Christmas histrion costumes — I enactment them done a lot, but it was fun. I person to admit that I did benignant of torture my sons, and astir apt my unit too. I made them each bash immoderate beauteous brainsick worldly for assemblage events.”

Although the pharmacy is closed, Schropp intends to proceed volunteering for assemblage events and participating successful vicinity committees.

“I privation to springiness a acknowledgment to everyone for trusting maine each these years arsenic their pharmacist,” Schropp said. “They meant the satellite to me, the patients and my staff. I couldn’t person asked for thing amended successful my life.”