“That should be locked up behind the counter,” said a stunned shopper. “The priorities are backwards.”
Nearly everything is kept under lock and key at some Big Apple drug stores — except the morning-after pill, which shoppers can pick up in bins by the checkout line alongside gum and hand sanitizer.
The same was the case at a Duane Reade on John Street and another at the corner of Water and Fulton streets. “You would think it would be with the other birth control products, but it’s just out in the open next to the sunscreen,” said the father, who now lives in Florida and visited NYC this week with his 10- and 12-year-old sons.
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