Blazing a New Trail in Health & Wellness
FIRST STORES OPEN
Peoples’ first two locations open in April 1980 in central and south Austin. Our founder’s home phone number is our after-hours line.
COMPOUNDING BEGINS
Besides compounding prescriptions, we rent out VHS tapes, print photos in our in-house photo lab, and serve up frozen yogurt by the ounce.
BLAZIN’ A NEW TRAIL
We make national news by burning our cigarette inventory in our Westlake store parking lot, ceasing sales for good on National Smokeout Day.
FARMERS MARKETS
We host the first Barton Creek farmers markets in the parking lot of our Westlake store, selling local, grass-fed beef before anyone else in town.
RADIO SHOW
Hosted by founder Bill Swail, Peoples goes live with the first of 1,000+ “Let’s Get Healthy” radio shows, providing free wellness advice to the Austin community.
ACL BODEGA
ACL Music Fest brings in Peoples Rx to provide festival essentials and snacks. Our booths become the ‘ACL Bodegas’ we know and love.
COMPOUNDING EXPANDS
Our four in-store labs combine into one state-of-the-art compounding center in south Austin to custom-make top quality meds for people and pets.
