Price Pharmacy expands into old F&M Bank building in Granite Quarry

Salisbury, North Carolina

GRANITE QUARRY A surprising pop of color red, gray and black in the middle of otherwise brown downtown Granite Quarry marks something more than the towns first standalone drugstore in about 30 years.

Price Pharmacy, which opened April 1 in the former F&M Bank building at 110 E. Bank St., also marks the start of an effort to renew the towns business district, officials say.

To me, this is the beginning of the revitalization of the business corridor for Granite Quarry, Town Manager Dan Peters said.

Peters said Price Pharmacy, which has expanded to Granite Quarry from China Grove, fits perfectly with a business development plan the town adopted based on recommendations from the N.C. Downtown Development Association.

Pharmacy co-owners Jim Miles and Andy Caudill were in the process of buying the old bank just as town leaders started to implement the development recommendations.

Even the pharmacys bold color scheme seemed to come from the pages of the study, which calls for the town to encourage hues other than brown, the color that permeates the downtown and can make the buildings look alike.

After working for a corporate pharmacy for 14 years, Caudill said he was ready for a change.

Constantly understaffed to meet profit margins demanded by stockholders, Caudill said some days he spent more time filling out paperwork than serving customers.

They are driven to grow sales and we are too, but not at the expense of our customers, said Caudill, who went into business with Miles in February 2011.

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Price Pharmacy expands into old F&M Bank building in Granite Quarry