Jun 2, 2008

Gray Drug store thriving in communityBy Chuck ThompsonMacon.com

Gray – It has already been half a year since Dottie Walker moved her Gray Drug Co. to a much larger building she had built on Bill Conn Parkway, but there are still times when she is struck by the contrast in space.

One day a couple of weeks ago when she and her staff were particularly busy, the pharmacists and technicians and clerks all bumping elbows as they scurried around to fill prescriptions and wait on customers, she thought, ‘how did we ever manage in our old store?’

“We were on top of each other all the time there,” Walker said. “Here we have so much more space, but we can still get in each other’s way when we’re busy.”

Walker said she had contemplated a move for many years. The catalyst was a major road project in front of her former location on U.S. 129 in downtown Gray. Storm drains and sidewalks were replaced and the road repaved in a Georgia Department of Transportation project that began last fall and concluded last month.

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