In the US, pharmacies sell crisps and supermarkets sell paracetamol. I noticed it on a trip to Miami, right after noticing the crisp bags were the biggest I’d ever seen.
A CVS or a Walgreens is a shop with a pharmacy counter hiding at the back: snacks, drinks, food, cosmetics, cleaning stuff. It’s old (drugstores used to have soda fountains, and Walgreens even ran restaurants), but today the reason is money: drug margins keep shrinking, and they’re open late and on every corner, so selling everything pays. Forbes saw it coming in 2011.
And the other way round: paracetamol (acetaminophen there, think Tylenol) is an over-the-counter drug, so you can buy it at the supermarket, the corner shop or the petrol station.
In Spain, exactly the opposite. By law (Real Decreto Legislativo 1/2015) medicines are dispensed only in pharmacies. The small 650 mg packs need no prescription, but you still have to go to the farmacia for them, and the 1 g ones need a prescription.
Same pill, two worlds. Which one would you pick?