The Medicine Shoppe
Pharmacies and Drug Stores
What it costs
Figures are from the 2025 filing in MN — the Franchise Disclosure Document as the state registry holds it.
- Total investment
- $513,050 – $895,653
- Initial franchise fee
- $0
- Franchised outlets
- 271
How its owners fared
3.2% of finished loans charged off
Lower charge-off rate than 279 of 417 brands we can rate, across every industry rather than like-for-like — a cleaning franchise and a restaurant do not carry the same risk. We compare this way because Pharmacies and Drug Stores has only 5 brands with enough finished loans to compare against. See the peers anyway →
We only know how 31 of this brand’s 55 loans ended. The government withholds the outcome on 22 of the others, so everything above is based on 56% of the record.
1 of 31 franchisees who borrowed to buy this brand did not repay. See every loan →
What else the filing says
There is more in The Medicine Shoppe’s filing
What it costs to open is free, above.
This franchisor makes no earnings claim at all. That is itself worth knowing, and it means the only honest projection starts from your numbers rather than theirs.
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What that opens
- Every ongoing fee in Item 6 priced in dollars a year, not just the royalty
- How many franchisees left that year, which a headline outlet count hides
- How long the agreement binds you, and on what terms it renews
- Whether the franchisor earns from the suppliers it requires you to use
- A five-year model you drive with your own rent, wages, borrowing and ramp
The loan record stays free — how many of this brand’s franchisees borrowed from a bank to buy in, and how many never paid it back. That is a public government record and we do not charge for it. What you pay for is only what we read out of the franchisor’s own disclosure document.
Straight answers
From this filing and the federal loan record. Nothing here is projected, and where the filing does not say, it says so.
- How much will it cost to open?
- $513,050 – $895,653, of which $0 is the franchise fee. That is the franchisor’s own estimate and excludes the working capital to survive the months before revenue covers costs.The filing →
- What will I owe them every year?
- Included with access
- Is the system growing or shrinking?
- Included with access
- Did the people who borrowed to buy one repay?Free
- 3.2% were charged off, of the 31 SBA loans that have finished. A charge-off means the lender wrote the loan off — not that the outlet closed, and not that the owner lost money. Loans still being repaid count neither way — a loan that has not finished has not succeeded.Loan outcomes →
- What should I be worried about?
- Included with access
- What should I ask existing owners?
- Included with access
What you would earn, and when
Neither is in the filing: both turn on your rent, wages and financing. Enter those and the five-year model returns your profit, your cash flow year by year, the month you break even, and the NPV and IRR of the whole investment.
- Can I make money?
- Included with access
- How long until I break even?
- Included with access