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| Generic 'chemist' |
I don't know if you recall, but in Britain and Ireland there used to exist a place known as a 'chemist's', (occasionally referred to as a 'pharmacy'). You may not remember, as it was a while ago. (Or you may not be from Britain or Ireland, of course). This chemist's was an establishment you visited when you felt poorly, in order to alleviate whichever symptoms you were suffering from. But then a company called Boot's came along and turned a 'chemist's' into a 'Shop Vaguely Related to Feeling Good'. In this new type of Shop you can buy all sorts of things that make your teeth go whiter and your skin browner and your hair more whatever-you-want-your-hair-to-be-more-of. The new Shop does also sell medical products, but prefers not to advertise the fact, and so supermarkets and mini-marts have started enthusiastically selling all those symptom alleviating products beside their shampoos and shaving gels.
