If you use a large national retailer like Walgreens, CVS, etc you don’t need to worry about transferring or doing anything before your move. Just walk into The Villages area Walgreens and ask the pharmacist to fill your prescription from Mass. They will pull you up in their computer and do so without any problem. You might want to wait until you move in and figure things out a bit, and then transfer your prescription to the closest pharmacy based on your shopping habits. There are retail Walgreens stores on Kristine Way in Lake Deaton Plaza and in Pinellas Plaza and they are probably just about the same distance from DeLuna, but not that close. The closest retail pharmacy to you is probably the CVS in Wildwood but this location is difficult to turn into off 301 coming up from DeLuna and is not golf cart accessible. The closest (and golf cart accessible) Walgreens pharmacy location to you is Store #21204 in Brownwood at The Villages Center for Advanced Healthcare, but this isn’t a retail store it’s just a pharmacy. Yes, they are supposed to be building a CVS in Magnolia with the timeline unknown, and yes there is a Pharmacy in the Publix at Magnolia and this is probably where you will find yourself shopping most often living in DeLuna so might be where you would want to transfer your prescriptions to.
Welcome to The Villages and good luck with your move! Please don’t let the few snarky ones on this forum make you feel dumb for any newbie questions you might ask. Feel free to PM me while figuring things out and I will help in any way that I can. I live in the “far away” south and love it!
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