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TerryWhiteChemmart Footscray.
Hopkins chemist. Weekend clocks fight. Confirm glass.
Location
What people get wrong
Hopkins, not Barkly. House page still prints Hours not available for most days. Weekend directories disagree. Glance at the door. Not Chemist Warehouse. We last walked this on 2026-09-21. Hours move with the week. Checking the shopfront keeps the night easy.
What is TerryWhite Chemmart Footscray known for?
TerryWhite Chemmart Footscray is known as the Hopkins chemist: a smaller shop than Barkly, a Sunday clock that still fights itself, a green glass next to the banh mi strip.
You walk Hopkins from the station past Nhu Lan and the pho rooms to 132-134. The glass prints FOOTSCRAY. Inside it is scripts, over-the-counter, the care-clinic extras a TerryWhite booking plugin can still name: travel vax, skin, OCP resupply, UTI when the pharmacist agrees you are in scope. English at the till. Other languages in the queue because Hopkins is Hopkins. Ask. Phone (03) 9078 6654. Email footscray@terrywhitechemmart.com.au. Site terrywhitechemmart.com.au/stores/terrywhite-chemmart-footscray. That URL is a store card, not a live weekly clock. On 2026-09-21 the card still printed Hours not available under most days after a public-holiday close. healthdirect still printed weekdays 9am to 7pm. Those two facts can sit together. They do not invent a Sunday.
This is not Chemist Warehouse at 190 Barkly. This is not Tran Pharmacy at 73B Nicholson. This is not Chinese medicine at 139 Hopkins. This is not Nhu Lan. This is not the Irving hall. This is not 20 Geelong Road. A script from Sunshine can still fill here if the pharmacist can read it. A script from the new hospital campus may have a campus pharmacy. Ask before you leave that foyer and walk Hopkins in the rain.
You came because you were already on Hopkins with a script, and because Barkly felt like a different suburb in the rain. A parent who treated a Shopfully Sunday-closed widget as gospel, then walked here at 10am Sunday, is how a morning dies. Call first. Confirm the glass. The green fascia is the tell. Do not invent a wait from the pho queue next door. Those are different doors. Take the bag and leave toward the lit street. A cheap vitamin run is not a reason to linger in the aisle telling the pharmacist the Sunday-widget story. They have heard it.
What should you bring to TerryWhite Chemmart Footscray?
You should bring the script, then a concession card if you have one, then the phone that can take (03) 9078 6654 if the grid is blank.
No appointment for a retail fill. The listed extras can require a booking. Fees apply. If you needed a published Sunday chemist, Barkly still prints 9am to 6pm on healthdirect. If you needed a GP, Leeds. If you needed a dentist, 13 Leeds or 170-172 Barkly. If you needed ED, Geelong Road. If you needed the market hall, Irving, and it is not Sunday. If you needed Chinese medicine, 139 Hopkins is a different door on the same street, a different till, a different clock. Do not mash 132 and 139 because both say Hopkins.
Stay long enough to match 132-134 to the green glass. healthdirect prints 132. This directory keeps 132-134 as the shopfront range. A coffee at Hung Vuong is how you miss a 7pm weekday close. After that Barkly may still be open. Hopkins may not. Street parking on Hopkins is short and inspected. Irving deck if you were already at the market. Do not use the hospital car park for a repeat.
Bring the original script. A photo is a pharmacist decision. Do not invent a wait from the pho queue next door. Those are different doors. PBS and private scripts take the time they take. This is not triage. A chest-pain story belongs on Geelong Road, not in this queue. If the person next to you looks like they should not be standing, that is 000, not a queue courtesy.
Hours, tickets and queues at TerryWhite Chemmart Footscray
Quoted weekday hours from healthdirect: Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm. House page: Monday 9am-7pm, closed public holidays, then Hours not available. Call (03) 9078 6654. Last checked 2026-09-21. Glance at the door.
Weekend: Pharmacy Finder has printed Saturday 9am-6pm and Sunday 10am-3pm. Shopfully has printed Saturday 9am-6pm and Sunday closed. The house page, today, printed no weekly grid. We refuse to pick a Sunday. Public holidays are closed on house copy. That close is the one fact the store card still commits to. Everything else is a look at the glass or a phone call before you travel.
Click and collect and delivery sit on the chain card. That is not a reason to skip the glass if you are already on Hopkins. PBS is a till question. This is not ED. The chain will sell you a thermometer, a spacer, a box of masks. That is retail. It is not a hospital pharmacy. Do not drive to 20 Geelong Road for a repeat this till can fill on a weekday before 7.
How do you get to TerryWhite Chemmart Footscray in Footscray?
You get to TerryWhite Chemmart Footscray by walking Hopkins from Footscray station toward the market food strip, to 132-134, a chemist, not Barkly and not the hall.
Street parking on Hopkins is short. Irving deck if you were already at the market. After dark Hopkins is still the brighter walk. Nicholson Mall is the cut people skip. This chemist sits on the lit street. Paisley and the underpass are the other cuts. Carry the bag on Hopkins or Barkly home. A cheap vitamin run is not a reason to invent a river shortcut at 6:50pm when the weekday card is already dying.
If you wanted Chemist Warehouse, turn to 190 Barkly. If you wanted a GP, Leeds. If you wanted ED, 20 Geelong Road. If you wanted Chinese medicine, 139 Hopkins is a different door. This listing is 132-134. Confirm the green glass. A 406 that dumps you at VU Park is the hospital edge, a different chemist job. Walk Hopkins 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 TerryWhite Chemmart Footscray?
They walk 190 Barkly, or they trust a Sunday widget, or they treat 139 Hopkins as this till, and they miss a market-edge chemist that still wants the glass before you travel.
- 132-134 Hopkins Street, Footscray VIC 3011 only.
- Phone (03) 9078 6654. Closed public holidays on house copy.
- Healthdirect weekdays 9am-7pm. Weekend clocks disagree. Confirm glass.
- Not 190 Barkly. Not 73B Nicholson. Not 139 Hopkins. Not ED.
- House page printed Hours not available on 2026-09-21. Call first.
Questions people ask next
- Where is TerryWhite Chemmart Footscray?
- 132-134 Hopkins Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Footscray station is a short walk along Hopkins. It is not Chemist Warehouse on Barkly.
- What are TerryWhite Chemmart Footscray hours?
- healthdirect prints Monday to Friday 9am-7pm. The house page printed Hours not available for the rest of the week and closed public holidays. Saturday and Sunday disagree across directories. Call (03) 9078 6654. Last checked 2026-09-21.
- How do I get to TerryWhite Chemmart Footscray from the station?
- Walk Hopkins toward the market food strip. The chemist is 132-134. Irving deck if you were driving for the market. Do not park at the hospital for this till.
- Is TerryWhite Chemmart Footscray the emergency department?
- No. ED is Footscray Hospital, 20 Geelong Road, 24 hours. This is the Hopkins chemist. Closed public holidays on house copy.
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