Pharmacy in Spain

Oct 20, 2006 · dgruntowicz · 6 replies · 6084 views

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Hello,
This is my first posting. My wife (who is a Spanish citizen) and I are planning to move to
Galicia next year. We are planning to buy a pharmacy as this is both of our professions. Does anyone know offhand if this is a stable business (in terms of income) in Spain? I know this is a strange question, but thought I'd ask as we are trying to gather as much info as possible.

Kind regards,
Don

Oct 20, 2006 · ROBI

It must be a licence to print money - where else can you buy medicines/drugs??

Oct 25, 2006 · Expatriator

Haha, yeah, although there are already TONS of pharmacies in Spain... yet even when you see two on the same block they both seem to be doing alright.

There might be a bunch of legal and regulatory hoops to jump through, I doubt it'll be an easy process. You'd probably be the first expat pharmacists in the country, but I could be wrong about that.

IMHO, if you hooked yourself up in a touristy area and talked to the doctors in the area I'm sure you'd do well.

Oct 25, 2006 · SpainExpat member

You need one of those big flashing signs that has the wrong time on it! :-)

Oct 25, 2006 · Expatriator

True! And the wrong temperature! In fact, why not having it show the time/temp in London instead!?

Oct 25, 2006 · SpainExpat member

Not sure the Spanish would get the joke? ;-)