All about pharmacies in 2015, this is industry focused.

Hi Fool's health care analyst Michael Douglas here and I am talking to one of our health care

contributors Todd Campbell today Todd how are you doing?

I'm doing well I just got back from my local Rite Aid store picking up a couple things so this is the perfect time to talk about pharmacists.

Well not that that biases you of course right. I feel like we've all had good and bad pharmacy experiences.

So, important to be careful there.

But yeah, let's jump right into it.

Because people talk about, people think about pharmacies a lot,

just sort of the like, you know,

when you're going in and you're buying your

prescription or you're getting your people magazine or or whatever but let's face

it the business model often goes a lot beyond that and I think it's really

important these are intriguing investments and I think they're very

interesting to a lot of people so so let's dive into kind of the major things people

should be watching for pharmacies in 2015 what's on your mind for that Todd?

I think one of the most important things that investors need to understand about the pharmacy business is how it is changing the long-term trend that is changing this entire industry. I mean historically pharmacies were operated as two distinct businesses.

You had the main part of the store or the front end of the store where of course you could

get your people magazine or your pack of cigarettes or

whatever it happened to be at the time and at the back end of the store you had this

separate business that was fulfilling

uh... filling prescriptions for individuals.

Now the future of pharmacy is a holistic approach

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