The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7356 p18
2 July 2005

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· Annual General Meeting
· Registration
· Pharmacology
· Controlled drugs
· Technicians
· Birdsgrove House
· Registration examination
· Revalidation
· Supermarket pharmacy
· Dispensing
· New pharmacy contract
· PCTs
· The Society

Letters to the Editor

Supermarket pharmacy

Poor image

From Mrs A. Mishon, MRPharmS

Does it concern pharmacists working for supermarkets, that they are aligning themselves in the minds of the public with the supermarket philosophy of “lowest prices” which, it is reported, are sometimes to the detriment of the producer or to the Third World. Poor quality, watery strawberries and coarse textured frozen oven chips spring to mind. Would my acquaintances welcome advice on medicines coming from the same source? Probably not. Public perception is all.

“Ah, well,” those pharmacists would say, “there are no other jobs”. Should we as a profession be tolerating such an image? I think not.

Anne Mishon
France

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