On the outside, this unassuming pharmacy looks like any other under the Malouf banner group. But…read morethis pharmacy is my hero having saved me many times from spending an uncomfortable night waiting in the emergency room. You know how sometimes you get sick in the middle of the night but it's not life threatening so you'll get triaged to the bottom of the emergency pile. If you're lucky, sometimes the pharmacy will have the medication you need allowing you to bypass emergency. This is why I appreciate Malouf pharmacy in Mt Gravatt so much. After Terry White at Coorparoo, this is probably the latest opening pharmacy on the south side of Brisbane. It shuts at 9:30pm six nights out of seven and opens public holidays. There's also a bulk billing doctor surgery next door and a QML pathology in the same shopping complex. It usually has decent gift lines but honestly, where there's such a hardworking health team, not having a make-up counter or cheap perfumes isn't a deal breaker.

This discount chemist always has great bargain bins chock full of $1 tissues, toothpastes, washing…read moredetergent and handy wipes. It's a great incentive to make me want to shop here. Unfortunately, having shopped here a couple of times, their prescription service is not very effective. They have this system where customers go to the back of the store to get their scripts filled or purchase over-the-counter medications. Once your script is filled, you take it to the front of the shop for payment. I think they have set up this system to make a clear distinction between the health care component and the general shop. At the back of the store, you can get pharmacist counselling and pick up prescriptions. However, money exchanges hands at the front of the shop. It sounds good in theory except when you just want to buy $1 tissues but you're stuck behind a pensioner who forgot to hand in his pension card and therefore his prescription had gone through at full price. The poor sales assistant had to run to the back of the shop with the pension card, the pharmacist had to re-process the script, the sales assistant had to come back, then the pharmacist realised he also had to re-process the repeat prescription, the pensioner had to hand over the prescription again. The entire process took five minutes longer than it should. Needless to say, the line of people waiting to get served was pretty restless. So while this may be a convenient pick up point for toiletry, think twice before going in if you're in a rush.

I like to go to this store as the people there keep an eye on my partner as he has multiple health…read moreissues. Sometimes, like at the supermarket, when somebody forgets their number for their card, then they have to pay cash, then they don't have enough so have to put stuff back, there, also, people get muddled.......maybe we all have to remember that we are all getting to that age as the days pass. They do have generic brands available for some medications and also offer a tablet fill service, where the daily tablets go into special trays for ease of taking.

Whoa, this is a huge chemist. Usually the only chemists this large are those discount ones that…read moresell everything at slightly cheaper prices and somehow manage to fill entire basketball court sized shops with products. This one is not especially welcoming from the outside and they don't have anything of great excitement on their shelves, but it's a chemist and they've got heaps of stuff so it's certainly a useful one.