Forced to sell medications at a loss, rural Texas pharmacies seek new survival tactics

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Crystal McEntire lives two lives. Every morning, she wakes up to tend to her family’s ranch near the top of the Texas Panhandle that houses a herd of Red Angus cattle. But after mornings of farm work, she exchanges her ranch jeans for pharmacy jeans, she said, and drives 26 miles to Hyland’s Pharmacy in Wheeler County — one of two pharmacies she owns — a drive she described as a moment for decompression. “It’s all in your mindset, because it is a lot. When I’m at the pharmacy, I focus on the

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