Cheap pharmacy coming

Darc19 · 06-09-2020 07:56PM #1

Sector could be about to get shaken

http://chemistwarehouse.ie/

Here's their aussie site
https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/

$5bn turnover. 23% of aussie market.

.red. · 06-09-2020 07:57PM

That doesn't look dodgy at all!!!

SEPT 23 1989 · 06-09-2020 07:57PM

Do you need a prescription?

odyssey06 · 06-09-2020 07:57PM

Not sure where this is going... follows thread.

StevenToast · 06-09-2020 07:58PM

I wouldnt buy toilet roll there

shanec1928 · 06-09-2020 07:59PM

Hopefully things are priced like there stores in oz. great value on aftershaves/ perfumes.

Electric Nitwit · 06-09-2020 07:59PM

Interesting...

The Times wrote:

Chemist Warehouse, an Australian discount pharmacy chain, is planning to enter the Irish market.

The retailer, which has been dubbed the McDonald’s of pharmacy, has linked up with an Irish pharmacy entrepreneur to establish a subsidiary here and is believed to have already lined up its first outlets in Dublin.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/australian-pharmacy-chemist-warehouse-to-give-dublin-dose-of-its-medicine-pvrhxn23c

Darc19 · 06-09-2020 07:59PM

Updated op with aussie site. https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/

They are huge.

Report is in The Times and also irish times

rom · 06-09-2020 08:37PM

I wonder if they will be real cheap or Irish cheap. Was getting an Asthma spacer here. Price 170 euro. In Spain the exact same one was 40 euro. We are totally been taken for a ride.

RobbingBandit · 06-09-2020 08:41PM

Fact that here has no generic aspirin ibuprofen or paracetamol for sale OTC says it all really. £1 for nurofen tablets in Dunnes Stores in Newry nearly €5 here and only available in pharmacy.

vicwatson · 06-09-2020 08:44PM

Is the Irish entrepreneur Shane O’Sullivan - the lad from Healthwave?

Darc19 · 06-09-2020 09:48PM

vicwatson wrote: »

Is the Irish entrepreneur Shane O’Sullivan - the lad from Healthwave?

I don't think so. Registered office is in Swords.

First shop is blanchardstown. (ad for pharmacist on indeed)
My guess is it will be the former Laura Ashley store.

Further check sees it as same address as blackhall distribution, part of United drug which owns Lloyds pharmacy.

jamesbondings · 06-09-2020 10:47PM

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Fact that here has no generic aspirin ibuprofen or paracetamol for sale OTC says it all really. £1 for nurofen tablets in Dunnes Stores in Newry nearly €5 here and only available in pharmacy.

It's a farce! We do a couple trips up north for bits and bobs each year and stock up on paracetamol (sainsbury have em for like 20p) and nurofen.. Have to go in and out of shops a few times but save a fortune.
How do we not have any generic stuff available?

screamer · 06-09-2020 10:52PM

jamesbondings wrote: »

It's a farce! We do a couple trips up north for bits and bobs each year and stock up on paracetamol (sainsbury have em for like 20p) and nurofen.. Have to go in and out of shops a few times but save a fortune.
How do we not have any generic stuff available?

We do have generics but the price difference between them and the branded drugs is so negligible that generics are not worth buying.

Former Former · 06-09-2020 10:55PM

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Fact that here has no generic aspirin ibuprofen or paracetamol for sale OTC says it all really. £1 for nurofen tablets in Dunnes Stores in Newry nearly €5 here and only available in pharmacy.

This new entrant won't change that.

It's a volume thing. You can sell low cost goods to 60 million people for less than you can sell them to 5 million. That's the short version.

Rows Grower · 06-09-2020 10:58PM

Former Former wrote: »

This new entrant won't change that.

It's a volume thing. You can sell low cost goods to 60 million people for less than you can sell them to 5 million. That's the short version.

That doesn't explain the difference in prices by a long shot. We are being ripped off here compared to the UK.

Former Former · 06-09-2020 11:13PM

Rows Grower wrote: »

That doesn't explain the difference in prices by a long shot. We are being ripped off here compared to the UK.

It's pretty complicated but again, this new pharmacy won't change it one way or the other.

The Hound Gone Wild · 06-09-2020 11:33PM

rom wrote: »

I wonder if they will be real cheap or Irish cheap. Was getting an Asthma spacer here. Price 170 euro. In Spain the exact same one was 40 euro. We are totally been taken for a ride.

I'd love to see your reaction if you got the average Spanish wage per month.

bobbyy gee · 06-09-2020 11:42PM

In spain medicence 6 Euro months supply
Ireland 200 Euro months supply
America 1000 Euro months supply

The Hound Gone Wild · 06-09-2020 11:44PM

bobbyy gee wrote: »

In spain medicence 6 Euro months supply
Ireland 200 Euro months supply
America 1000 Euro months supply

What medication is €6 per month in Spain that's €200 in Ireland? Bearing in mind the max 99.99% of people in Ireland will pay is €124 per month.

n1ck · 06-09-2020 11:50PM

Used to live in Oz and can vouch for Chemist Warehouse, very legitimate and extremely cheap by their standards, would be interesting to see the same here.

07-09-2020 12:20AM

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Fact that here has no generic aspirin ibuprofen or paracetamol for sale OTC says it all really. £1 for nurofen tablets in Dunnes Stores in Newry nearly €5 here and only available in pharmacy.

Buplex is a generic of Nurofen/Ibuprofen and retails at a around a third of the price. You can buy nurofen OTC here, but it is limited to one packet. There are also a number of generic paracetamols available, some less than a €1. You just need to look around more.

As chemistwarehouse are about to find, buying drugs from suppliers in a small market like Ireland is very different from buying them in larger markets like the UK and Australia. While there may be some discounts due to not having bricks and mortar shops, they are unlikely to be significant.

Slutmonkey57b · 07-09-2020 12:49AM

Dav010 wrote: »

Buplex is a generic of Nurofen/Ibuprofen and retails at a around a third of the price. You can buy nurofen OTC here, but it is limited to one packet. There are also a number of generic paracetamols available, some less than a €1. You just need to look around more.

As chemistwarehouse are about to find, buying drugs from suppliers in a small market like Ireland is very different from buying them in larger markets like the UK and Australia. While there may be some discounts due to not having bricks and mortar shops, they are unlikely to be significant.

The drugs are often produced in Ireland. Getting them into this market isn't any different to getting them into the northern Irish market. If this were true, why aren't cornflakes 3x the price here as well?

tdf7187 · 07-09-2020 12:51AM

Great news. I paid €26 the other day for a monthly supply of low dose aspirin, a low dose statin, and Thiamine (I am a recovering alcoholic, thiamine is recommended for us types). Ridiculous.

07-09-2020 12:57AM

Slutmonkey57b wrote: »

The drugs are often produced in Ireland. Getting them into this market isn't any different to getting them into the northern Irish market. If this were true, why aren't cornflakes 3x the price here as well?

Cornflakes are not a drug.

Drug supply companies who import medications for sale require a wholesale import licence. They have contracts with manufacturers for the import and sale of their drugs.

The process of getting them into both markets is the same, licensed wholesalers import them, then sell them to pharmacies and OTC retailers, but the wholesale market for the UK, including NI, is very different than in ROI due to economy of scale.

Slutmonkey57b · 07-09-2020 12:58AM

Dav010 wrote: »

Cornflakes are not a drug.

Drug supply companies who import medications for sale require a wholesale import licence. They have contracts with manufacturers for the import and sale of their drugs.

The process of getting them into both markets is the same, licensed wholesalers import them, then sell them to pharmacies and OTC retailers, but the wholesale market for the UK, including NI, is very different than in ROI due to economy of scale.

And all the drug companies that produce drugs here, do they get subject to the same import issues?

And the EU single market doesn't apply to medical drugs?

07-09-2020 01:05AM

Slutmonkey57b wrote: »

And all the drug companies that produce drugs here, do they get subject to the same import issues?

Try going into the Pfizer and asking can you buy a couple of boxes of viagra. Though the production of pharmaceuticals is important to our economy, we produce a limited medications number of prescribed medications. I am not sure of pharmacies can buy direct from manufacturers, I suspect they also have to go through a licenced wholesale intermediary.

While the EU has a standardised regulatory system to ensure the safety of drugs sold in the EU, each country has their own licensing regulations, in Ireland a Wholesaler who wishes to import drugs for sale to pharmacies/OTC has to apply to Revenue for the licence.

Not all drugs prescribed in individual EU countries are licensed for use here.

All this information is available online, google is your friend.

wotzgoingon · 07-09-2020 01:05AM

What are you all mad for buying painkillers for. I think you are addicted. Never took them in my life.

begbysback · 07-09-2020 01:05AM

Shane Warne aftershave, $36, cant wait

Atlantic Dawn · 07-09-2020 01:15AM

Former Former wrote: »

This new entrant won't change that.

It's a volume thing. You can sell low cost goods to 60 million people for less than you can sell them to 5 million. That's the short version.

A lot of those drugs are actually made in Ireland so how in the jaysus could a drug made in Ireland be more expensive in Ireland than another EU country? There's no VAT, excise duty, VRT etc yet goods shipped outside Ireland would have additional transport costs which need to be covered.

07-09-2020 01:21AM

I don't think online pharmacies are a particularly good thing. Takes pharmacists away from patient facing roles.

Cheap pharmacy coming

Welcome!

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