RFP Staff
♦ Yesterday the Rowan Free Press learned Innes Street Drug, at 112 S. Main Street in Downtown Salisbury and a South Main Street Mainstay, is closing. A sign in the window sadly announced: “It is with sincere regret that, after 91 years in business, Innes Street Drug will be closing both locations”. Both locations being 112 S. Main and 1706 W. Innes Street in the Ketner Center. The first Innes Street Drug was opened in 1926 by the Fuller family.
Innes Street Drug was the major anchor store on S. Main Street and its closing will add to the mushrooming vacant store fronts that pockmark South Main. Innes Street Drug’s closing ranks as the largest blow to Downtown since Uncle Buck’s and Maia’s Fashions packed up and left. The Downtown meltdown is fueled by lack of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, people avoiding the area because of a lack of substantial retail draws, car break-ins, lack of parking, muggings, purse snatchings, aggressive panhandlers, and gun violence (only a few days ago 2 men were murdered on W. Fisher Street). Businesses closedown at nightfall and for good reason. Salisbury has a well deserved rep.
Both Pharmacies will close at their two locations this Friday. At the end of the business day existing prescriptions will transfer to Moose Pharmacy at 1408 W. Innes.
The OTC stock and products will be sold at both stores over the next few weeks until its is cleared. Then the padlocks will go on.
Photo Gallery of Innes Street Drug at 112 S. Main:
The Day a Truck Blasted through the Front Door:
Locations of Both Innes Street Drug stores:
Best of Luck to all the employees!
