Reason’s did a big upgrade a few years
ago. You can see it on the map. The almost the whole right side of the store was an expansion. This is where they moved things like the
magazines, greeting cards, all the HBC products like medicine, soap, shampoos, razors,
makeup, feminine hygiene, and tissue paper. Trust me, I am so, so happy that we
have access to all of these things because it goes give us a semblance of
normalcy. However, also in this section, is where they put in the pharmacy.
When Zero Hour erupted, only two
pharmacy techs were in the store. The other pharmacy employees (the actual
pharmacists) had not arrived yet. So, Kim and Jennifer were the only employees
in the place. They know their way around all the pills fairly well. I think
they know what something does if it ends in “illin.” They can help us find our
way around antibiotics and all the various types of medicine.
I know that there is probably 50% of
the stock in the pharmacy that we will never use. Certain geriatric medicines
won’t be used. And I am willing to bet vital parts of my anatomy that there is
not going to be a cure for whatever is causing this whole epidemic outside.
However, long before the world was
FedExed to Hell on a handcart, the pharmacy stocked a large degree of narcotics
and inventory that would go for a massive amount of coin out on the street. For
this reason, the doors are very thick, made of metal and all the opening to the
outside of the store (like where customers can approach) feature these security
gates that come down to seal the place up on Sundays and after hours security.
Because of this, the Pharmacy makes
for a pretty good area to serve as a Fall Back Zone, should our security be
breached. The only hiccup is that there are windows to the outside world. I am
concerned that a roving band of people that have not been infected to roll up
and breach our security with something as simple as a thrown cinder block. As
of right now, we have the windows covered with tin foil but we do need to
reinforce the windows, maybe with the metal shelving that we have been breaking
down as the inventory is running shallow.
It is kind of a double edged sword. While having the
pharmacy is a huge benefit for us, it also makes us a target if people are so
desperate that they are out running around (more than likely driving around)
looking for medicine. Langley Drug is across the highway and that may be a more
easily commandeered target. As far as we can tell, no one is over there and we
have guns. So, booyah.
