The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7323 p643
30 October 2004

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· Emergency supplies
· Education
· New contract
· Agenda for change
· CPD
· Retention fees
· Boots the Chemists
· The industry
· Aqueous cream
· Overseas members

Letters to the Editor

Boots the Chemists

Sucking at straws?

From Mr M. L. Vroobel, MRPharmS

I read in The Sunday Times for 17 October a report that Boots The Chemists has applied for 300 licences to sell beer and alcohol at its largest stores at a cost of £500,000.

I am surprised that Boots’s management has the cheek to be “concerned and caring” for the community, but not worried about selling the public alcohol merely to boost the company’s profits.

Having just lost an estimated £360m from its latest venture in expanding its health and beauty business, Boots is clearly sucking at straws. The teenagers who buy their alcopops at Boots certainly will be!

Mark Vroobel
Brighton

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