Calpol 80ml £1

Ronin247

Tesco has Calpol 80ml for £1. It is 250/5 and the 6+ stuff.Anyone who has small kids knows how much of a rip off this stuff is down here.About E4 for the same bottle I think.

Atlantic Dawn

6 Plus stuff is €4.27 for 60ml in Superquinn.

dinneenp

Ronin247 wrote: »

Tesco has Calpol 80ml for £1. It is 250/5 and the 6+ stuff.Anyone who has small kids knows how much of a rip off this stuff is down here.About E4 for the same bottle I think.

Is that in Northern Ireland only?

January

dinneenp wrote: »

Is that in Northern Ireland only?

The clue is in the title of the forum... take a look at it!

maxer68

Ronin247 wrote: »

Tesco has Calpol 80ml for £1. It is 250/5 and the 6+ stuff.Anyone who has small kids knows how much of a rip off this stuff is down here.About E4 for the same bottle I think.

You can't compare a special offer with the standard price and then claim rip-off. When the offer is over and its back at £3.09 in Tesco ni, the normal retail price here will be within 20c of the Tesco price.

It is s great offer - but like any offer, its short term and the price will be back up at 3.09 quite quickly

wmpdd3

It is a ogood offer, god knows you need alot of the stuff wiuth a child. The problem here is there is no competition, so no need to run promotions.

I got this:

http://www.pharmacyfirst.co.uk/medicines/numark-paracetamol-suspension-120mg/5ml-200ml/prod_4047.html

There are no generic paracetamol suspensions available in S. Ireland.

Ronin247

maxer68 wrote: »

You can't compare a special offer with the standard price and then claim rip-off. When the offer is over and its back at £3.09 in Tesco ni, the normal retail price here will be within 20c of the Tesco price.

It is s great offer - but like any offer, its short term and the price will be back up at 3.09 quite quickly

Two completely seperate issues.This is a bargain alert and it is a rip off at any time.The sale of all medicines in this country are a complete rip off imo with generic adult ibuprofen selling for 29p in the North all year round.

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

6 Plus stuff is €4.27 for 60ml in Superquinn.

This is for 60ml as opposed to the £3.09 price for 80ml maxer68 quotes.Even at E1.15 per £ it is only E355 or 4.4c/ml as opposed to 7.11c/ml or a 61% mark up.That's not a rip off?

Skopzz

I was shopping in Asda Enniskillen yesterday and Paracetamol (Asda Brand) is so much cheaper than rip-off Ireland prices. Down here, supermarkets only offer big brand names such as Panadol, Anadin etc and these often cost over EUR2.00 per pack here. However, Asda brand paracetamol costs GBP0.15 (EUR0.17) for a 16 pack. Paracetamol is Paracetamol - screw the big brand names.

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/search/searchcontainer.jsp?trailSize=1&searchString=PARACETAMOL&domainName=Products&headerVersion=v1&_requestid=24740

ripoffs

I have checked prices today...and the north still better value for some items

Calpol 140ml 2mths-6yrs strawberry €7.14 in a Chemist Dublin city centre
Calpol 100ml 2mths-6yrs strawberry £3.00 Sainsburys
Calpol 200ml £5.45 Boots UK
Nurofen 200ml 3mths-12yrs £6.59 Boots UK
Nurofen 100ml £3.00 Sainsburys
Cow&Gate 2/3 years 800g £7.49 in boots and sainsburys
Ibuprofen 16 tablets 200mg generic 40p Boots 30p Sainsburys
Paracetamol 16 tablets 500mg generic 39p Boots 19p Sainsburys

Superdrug also are a good bet for cheaper ibuprofen and paracetamol.

I was told in Dublin that calpol only came in 140ml bottles, and that I could not get cold medicine (e.g. Benylin) for a child under 6years old anymore as the IMDB didn't recommend it. I have been going north for years for medicine and there is a lot more variety on offer. Hope this helps everyone.