Beauty Supplies, gifts make drug store popular shopping spot

Chaney's owner, Brent Smith, has always been in the drug store business.From the time he stocked shelves and wrote receipts at his father's Greenwood shop to his graduation from the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy, he was conditioned to operate a drug store. But family and education go only so far in explaining how Smith lear...

Sure, you can get a prescription filled at any pharmacy in town.

But when it comes to a host of other errands – say, paying your phone bill, picking up a birthday gift, getting your nails done or pausing for a frozen yogurt – Chaney's is the place where you can do it all under one roof.

An Oxford institution since the late 1960s, Chaney's pharmacy is owned by pharmacist couple Brent an...