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New Pharmacy in East Atlanta (And They Deliver)

Eastlake Pharmacy opens on Glenwood Avenue.

EAST ATLANTA — Longtime residents will remember the Village's old East Atlanta Pharmacy and beloved ice cream parlor.

The pharmacy closed years ago but the Village has an independent neighborhood pharmacist once again.

Eastlake Pharmacy opened March 6 at 1308 Glenwood Ave., next door to Holy Taco.

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Thomas Jusu, the pharmacist, told East Atlanta Patch he picked the location "because I was looking for an area where I already know the community."

Jusu was a pharmacist at the CVS in Moreland Station Plaza before going the independent route.

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Building on those personal relationships, Jusu, who hails from the West African nation of Sierra Leone, said he felt he could better serve his customers.

A couple points of differentiation: Eastlake Pharmacy will make deliveries within a 6-mile radius for free and will offer notarization services.

The delivery service is meant to address a trend he said he saw in his elderly patients who weren't filling or refilling their prescriptions because of transportation impediments.

Jusu takes over a space that has had many iterations. It was last home to the Images of US barber shop — which later relocated across the street.

Before that, it was a beauty shop and restaurant.


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