The Rexall Pharma Plus store at 732 Mt. Pleasant Rd. has closed for good. Customers are being told that their records are over at the Rexall Pharma Plus at 2300 Yonge Street between Eglinton Ave. and Roehampton Ave. Bulldog readers say the scuttlebutt in the Sobey’s next door in the Briton House building is that a Dollarama is set to open in the large storefront. Rexall employees are said to have been offered jobs at the new discount store. The closure of the pharmacy speaks of a strategic defeat for Rexall, which grabbed the site when Shoppers Drug moved across Mt. Pleasant to new premises a few years ago. It also makes one think about the proximity of two Dollarama stores — Bayview and Mt. Pleasant. They aren’t like Starbucks with one on every corner. Rexall Pharma Plus was sold last March to McKesson Corp. of the U.S. for $3 billion by Daryl Katz, owner of the Edmonton Oilers. Rexall Pharma Plus sold to U.S. health-care firm McKesson
Let’s hope Dollarama does take over Rexall, Rexall was not a good store, never any specials and always empty.