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Apothecary shop

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1366, OED Evaluation: Archaic

One who prepared and sold drugs for medicinal purposes—the business now (since about 1800) conducted by a druggist or pharmaceutical chemist.

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Oh very little. It was just a little village. A little hamlet along the way. Um, but ah, so I'd go into the apothecary shop, and of course they knew who I was, I didn't have a clue. And they would chit-chat and-what-not, and then I'd see them on the street, and-so-on and it was fabulous.
Pharmacy, drugstore