To a visitor used to the modern, sterile conformity of a chain drugstore, Cape Drugs is sensory overload.
Instead of blue-white fluorescent lighting, bland beige fixtures and monosyllabic counter clerks, Cape Drugs, also known as Cape Apothecary, looks like a shop just off the beaten path in Harry Potter's Diagon Alley.
A customer brandishing a prescription has to push past colorful, seasonal displays of home decor, Yankee candles, jewelry, books, bric-a-brac and antiques before reaching the sales counter.
Once there they will find a huge antique marble mortar basin set into a wooden stand, accompanied by a long, battered...
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