{"id":417632,"date":"2026-08-26T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417632\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:04:08","slug":"peoples-pharmacy-changes-ownership-after-nearly-50-years-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417632\/","title":{"rendered":"Peoples Pharmacy changes ownership after nearly 50 years | Central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peoplesrx.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peoples Pharmacy<\/a>\u2014also known as Peoples Wellness\u2014recently sold to Kimberli Wiley, owner of CPRx Pharmacy in Austin. The new ownership will bring expanded health and wellness offerings to all locations.<\/p>\n<p>The backstory<\/p>\n<p>Bill Swail opened the first Peoples Pharmacy locations in 1980 in central and South Austin. The brand later expanded to open two additional locations in Northwest Austin and Westlake.<\/p>\n<p>What they offer<\/p>\n<p>Peoples offers a range of wellness products, including pharmaceutical-grade supplements, beauty and personal care products, vitamins, at-home wellness testing kits and gluten-free foods.<\/p>\n<p>The business also has a compounding pharmacy that creates customized medications for both people and pets that ensure optimal absorption, <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/lake-travis-westlake\/business\/peoples-wellness-focuses-on-preventative-care-community-wellness-in-westlake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to previous Community Impact reporting. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s changed<\/p>\n<p>With the new ownership, Wiley is launching a collaboration with Victory Medical center, which offers family and integrated medicine, urgent care, weight management and more.<\/p>\n<p>Peoples Pharmacy will now expand to offer GLP-1s, peptides and nurse practitioners available to see clients in store. The new services will be offered at all four existing locations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe collaboration with Victory Medical is a natural fit, bringing together complementary services and a shared commitment supporting the all-around health and wellness of our patients and customers,\u201d Wiley stated in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing<\/p>\n<p>The leadership at Peoples Pharmacy will remain largely unchanged, aside from CEO Stephen Erickson who will consult with the company through the transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peoples Pharmacy\u2014also known as Peoples Wellness\u2014recently sold to Kimberli Wiley, owner of CPRx Pharmacy in Austin. The new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,145523,3893,127083,15534,144799,7485,145522,63838,4522,13829,20785],"class_list":["post-417632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-bill-swai","tag-central-austin","tag-glp-1","tag-gluten-free","tag-new-ownership","tag-northwest-austin","tag-peoples-pharmacy","tag-peoples-rx","tag-south-austin","tag-wellness","tag-westlake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}