NCA price survey of pharmacies

Colin_M

Saw this online earlier, interesting survey by the NCA on the price difference of 117 personal care items and over the counter medicines across 16 different outlets - pharmacies and largest supermarkets.

The biggest price difference was around 161% so you would want to be shopping around for some of these items! Mad that pharmacies and shops can get away with such huge differences in price.

Have a read - http://www.consumerconnect.ie/eng/News_+_Research/Press%20Releases/NCA_price_survey_of_personal_care_items_and_medicines.html

wmpdd3

Good servey but they are always so out dated:

The survey was carried out on Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd September 2009. The NCA understands that several retailers in this sector have reduced prices since September.

It was only published today, 6 weeks later, 6 weeks is alot in retail. I work in Tesco in the H+B section so I know most prices and since mid August when the prices went down I have seen massive differences in different retailers. Dunnes seem to be mostly matching Tesco product for product but the others less so.

Products stocked behind the counter in Pharmacies are the most price variant in my opinion, but what do you do, put it back and drive to another chemist!