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Free Apples for Pharmacy Customers

Albany Street Pharmacy is taking the old adage – an apple a day keeps the doctor away – quite literally, offering free apples to patients.

Pharmacy Today reports that this is good news for broke local students: the pharmacy is located near the main Otago University campus and student health services. The pharmacy’s owner, Debbie Young, heard via social media that students were often left with only a dollar to last the week, with no more resources to buy food, and decided to create a unique offer.

“Originally it started when we had a free supply of apples, but it was so popular that we started buying them,” she told Pharmacy Today. Apples are offered to every customer, whether they buy anything or not.

Source: ajp.com.au/auspharm/world-news/world-news-wrapup-1-june-2017/?utm_source=AJP+Daily&utm_campaign=32b54656f8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cce9c58212-32b54656f8-109985429, viewed 1 June 2017