Rexall

Love this great big location. This particular Rexall is stoked with a lot of food and seem smore of a good place to pick up snacks moreso than anything, but they have a large selection of regular pharmaceutical goodies and personal hygeine products, etc.
Super clean and modern!

This Rexall is my favourite in the area, mostly because it hasn’t failed me yet on having what I want, and also enough choice too.
Ok, I’ll be real. I like this location because it carries NYX cosmetics. And because all the cosmetics displays are consistently so well lit, laid out, organised, and cleaned. There are testers for basically everything and none of them are gross. (Looking at you, Shoppers Drug Mart two blocks down the street.)
But in the interest of being universally informative, I will also say that the snack and candy aisles are of satisfactory length. There was even more than one variety of greek yogurt to choose from — that’s how you know you’re at a fancy drugstore. Anyway, food… that’s all we really care about in a pharmacy, right?
What? You want actual drugs at a drugstore?
Full disclosure: I haven’t ever bought any medicine from this drugstore. But I HAVE admired their selection of ice creams, and that’s basically the same as far as effectiveness in treating illnesses, amirite?
Of course, as with all large Canadian drugstore chains (looking at you again, Shoppers Drug Mart), beware the large markups on almost all products.

This Rexall seemed to pop up out of nowhere on the corner of Queen and University. It’s actually pretty close to my favourite Shoppers Drug Mart on Queen West but it’s still a welcome addition to neighbourhood thanks to being open 24 hours. I mean, who knows when explosive diarrhea will strike necessitating some emergency Imodium? Or what if you really really need new nail polish at 4am? Rexall has you covered.
I actually didn’t expect it to be as big as it is from outside. It’s pretty long and has all the usual things you expect from a drugstore-​including a grocery section and a cabinet full of lunch stuff. I’m not entirely sure they’d be my first choice for sushi, but they do supply it. And hey, if it’s not the best, they also sell Gravol and the aforementioned Imodium.
Staff were super friendly and welcoming. I hope this continues after they get established. This could easily become my go-​to prescription place. So convenient!