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THESE DAYS, ALMOST EVERY shopping center in our neighborhood has a CVS or a Walgreens, sometimes both, right next door to each other. So, how does Dougherty’s Pharmacy, which turns 85 years old this month, compete? The answer is simple. It doesn’t.

“They dedicate 80 percent of the store to 20 percent of the most profitable items,” Komuves says.

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On the surface, Dougherty’s has a similar setup at its Preston Royal Village store, but behind the pharmacy counter, much more is happening. Namely, drug compounding. There are two labs — one sterile and one nonsterile — where white-coated technicians are making medications from scratch to better suit patients’ needs.