Hello Hive friends. It's Friday once again. Depending on how you are coping with quarantine the feeling could be "So soon already?" or "Man that was a long week." No matter the sentiment this is still for me one of the most awaited day of the week. It's time once again for the #MarketFriday tag hosted by 
For this Friday I would like to feature a couple of pharmacies or drugstores I've been to this week. Pharmacies are one of the busiest establishments operating under our Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) after the public markets and supermarkets. The risk of infection is quite high due to the volume of customers lining up to buy medicines and other health products. The pictures below show how this drugstore, located in my neighborhood market, adjusted its selling area to minimize the risk.
As you can see they covered their whole facade with clear plastic. And in order to comply with the social distancing ordinance they made three counters to ensure the customers line up and don't just come charging in on the counters. Here are counters one and three. The picture above is for counter two.
This used to be a no man's land type of open pharmacy. From the sidewalk, anyone can just approach the glass counters and buy what they need, some jumping ahead of the others who were lined up before them. At least now, people have to wait their turn to be served. I also like the way they used their plastic cover to relay information and instructions to the public. Their signs say "No more alcohol and sanitizers", "No mask No service", "Observe Social Distancing at least 2 meters away!!!", and "Operating hours from 6am to 6pm." Talk about resource maximization.
The next set of pictures are from another drugstore, an upscale one, which is fully airconditioned and their sales representatives are in uniform. This is a branch near our home.
Do you see any difference? Apparently not so much. The counters are also covered with plastic although the specific points of sale are identified with rectangular spaces in red tape.
As can be seen in the next picture the sales staff are in uniform and have caps on (looks like surgical caps). Here she is taking my order of calcium supplement and Vitamin B for my wife.
Social distancing is also followed as seen below. The floor is marked with red tapes where each customer is to stand while either waiting in line or while being served.
Although I haven't been around much to check on other drugstores, the few that I have seen are almost identical to the pictures above. Whether upscale or lowscale the signs of the times are clearly and uniformly etched in this the new facade of retail commerce.
That's about it I guess for this edition of Market Friday. How about you? What do your drugstores look like nowadays. We would like to know. Please join this tag and share with us your side of the world. Thanks for visiting. Before I end I would like to leave you with a picture of a beautiful flower but with a name that do not match its beauty. Sort of how the world is now - so beautiful yet with so much uncertainty that do not match its beauty.
This flower is called "The False Bird of Paradise". It is so named because of its resemblance to the real Bird of Paradise. (It does have another name though, which is "Lobster's Claw".)
(All photos are mine.)