Health
ChemistWarehouse Footscray.
First store. Barkly till. Sunday chemist. Not ED.
Location
What people get wrong
190 Barkly, not the hospital campus. Saturday glass may print 5:30pm against healthdirect 9pm. Fax (03) 9687 0273. Confirm the door. We last walked this on 2026-09-21. Hours move with the week. Checking the shopfront keeps the night easy.
What is Chemist Warehouse Footscray known for?
Chemist Warehouse Footscray is known as the first store: a high-volume Barkly till, a Sunday chemist when the market hall is dark, a 2000 Chemistop that became the chain.
You walk Barkly from the station toward 190. The glass is the discount pharmacy people already know. Inside it is scripts, vitamins, nappies, the queue that does not care about your fever. English at the counter. Other languages in the line because Barkly is Barkly. Ask. Gance opened this door in 2000. AJP photographed him here again in June 2025. That is history. Tonight is a script. Phone (03) 9687 0275. Fax (03) 9687 0273. Email footscray@chemistwarehouse.com.au. Site chemistwarehouse.com.au is the chain, not a Footscray-only clock.
This is not TerryWhite at 132-134 Hopkins. This is not Tran Pharmacy at 73B Nicholson. This is not the hospital campus pharmacy. This is not Fine Smiles at 170-172. This is not Bar Thyme. Roti Road is closed. None of those tills will fill this script.
You came because Sunday needed a chemist, or because 8pm still had a light on Barkly, and because Geelong Road is a hospital, not Panadol. A parent who drove to ED for a closed hall is how a night dies. Read 190. The 25-year photograph is a press beat, not a reason to linger in the aisle telling the story to the pharmacist. Take the bag and leave toward the lit spine. The first store is still a shop.
What should you bring to Chemist Warehouse Footscray?
You should bring the script, then a Medicare or concession card if you have one, then the patience a high-volume Barkly till still wants from you tonight.
No appointment. Concession prices are a till question. If you needed a GP, Leeds. If you needed a dentist, 170-172 or 13 Leeds. If you needed ED, 20 Geelong Road. If you needed Hopkins, TerryWhite is the other chemist, and its Sunday clock still fights itself. If Sunday is the job and you wanted a published Sunday, this is the door healthdirect still prints 9am to 6pm. A script from Sunshine Hospital is still a Barkly fill if you can wait. A script from this hospital campus may have a campus pharmacy. Ask before you leave the foyer.
Stay long enough to match 190 to the fascia. SIA Medical and a travel-vaccine clinic sat next door in the 2025 photograph. Confirm tenants. They are not this till. After 9pm weekdays the healthdirect card is done. After 6pm Sunday it is done. Christmas Day and Good Friday are closed.
Bring the original script if the doctor still prints paper. A photo of a script is a pharmacist decision, not a guarantee. Do not invent a wait from the door queue.
Hours, tickets and queues at Chemist Warehouse Footscray
Quoted hours from healthdirect: Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 9pm, Sunday 9am to 6pm, closed Christmas Day and Good Friday. Call (03) 9687 0275. Last checked 2026-09-21. Glance at the glass.
Saturday 5:30pm on the 2025 shop glass is the hedge. We left it on the hours line. Public holidays other than those two closed days still shuffle. The chain site will not save a Footscray Saturday fight. Call.
PBS and private scripts take the time they take. This is not a booking. This is not ED. A chest-pain story belongs on Geelong Road, not in this queue. The chain will sell you a thermometer, a spacer, a box of masks. That is retail. It is not triage. If the person next to you looks like they should not be standing, that is 000, not a queue courtesy.
How do you get to Chemist Warehouse Footscray in Footscray?
You get to Chemist Warehouse Footscray by walking Barkly from Footscray station to 190, a retail chemist, not the hospital and not Hopkins.
Street parking and plaza overflow. Irving is the market. Geelong Road is ED. After dark Barkly is still the brighter walk. That is why this chemist exists as a night search. Paisley and the mall underpass are the cuts people skip. Carry the bag on Hopkins or Barkly home. A cheap vitamin run is not a reason to invent a river shortcut at 8:40pm.
If you wanted TerryWhite, turn to Hopkins. If you wanted Fine Smiles, 170-172 is a few doors back. If you wanted a GP, Leeds. If you wanted the hospital pharmacy story, you wanted the campus, not this till. This listing is 190 Barkly. A 406 that dumps you at VU Park is the hospital edge, a different chemist job. Walk Barkly if the bag is the job. Drive Geelong Road if the chest is the job. Do not mash them because both say Footscray.
What do people mix up about Chemist Warehouse Footscray?
They drive to Geelong Road, or they walk Hopkins, or they trust a Saturday 9pm widget against the glass, and they miss the first store that still wants 190 Barkly and a look at the door.
- 190 Barkly Street, Footscray VIC 3011 only.
- Healthdirect Mon-Sat 8:30am-9pm, Sun 9am-6pm. Saturday glass may print 5:30pm.
- Phone (03) 9687 0275. Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday.
- First Chemist Warehouse store, 2000. Not the hospital pharmacy.
- Not TerryWhite. Not Tran Pharmacy. Not Fine Smiles. Not ED.
Questions people ask next
- Where is Chemist Warehouse Footscray?
- 190 Barkly Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Footscray station is a short walk along Barkly. It is not on the hospital campus.
- What are Chemist Warehouse Footscray hours?
- Healthdirect prints Monday to Saturday 8:30am-9pm and Sunday 9am-6pm. The 2025 shop glass may show Saturday to 5:30pm. Call (03) 9687 0275. Last checked 2026-09-21.
- How do I get to Chemist Warehouse Footscray from the station?
- Walk Barkly to 190. Street parking. Do not use the Irving deck unless you also wanted the market.
- Is Chemist Warehouse Footscray the emergency department?
- No. ED is Footscray Hospital, 20 Geelong Road, 24 hours. This is the retail chemist. Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday.
Where we checked
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