Who employs the inspectors?
comment by Bales (U22081)
posted 25 seconds ago
Who employs the inspectors?
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Pharmaceutical companies probably, corrupt bassa's!
All prescriptions cost £9 now as a flat fee
Slightly OT, but I read somewhere you shouldn't take ibuprofen if you have the virus. Though it seems to be precautionary advice.
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 11 seconds ago
Slightly OT, but I read somewhere you shouldn't take ibuprofen if you have the virus. Though it seems to be precautionary advice.
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This is true.
In my words, it suppresses certain things which help in fighting certain viruses
comment by #TopLad || Sir Alex Ferguson ||✓ (U10161)
posted 1 minute ago
All prescriptions cost £9 now as a flat fee
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Over the counter medicine purchases have increased.
A single pharmacy, and this is fact with the one I'm on about, on certain days do not have loads of money in cash takings in the till.
So on a particular day this pharmacy would have less than £150. Consistent over the weeks and years.
Currently they are in excess of £1000 on said day
comment by Bales (U22081)
posted 8 minutes ago
Who employs the inspectors?
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Not sure tbh. Even the word "inspectors" may have been the wrong word. A person is coming in to check pricing though.
Will ask when I see my sibling
comment by Jinja Ninja (U19849)
posted 14 seconds ago
comment by Bales (U22081)
posted 8 minutes ago
Who employs the inspectors?
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Not sure tbh. Even the word "inspectors" may have been the wrong word. A person is coming in to check pricing though.
Will ask when I see my sibling
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From my limited experience in retail, it'll be the distributors. I worked in a music store many years ago and they'd 'inspect' to make sure the shelf space they'd paid for was in place. We had to keep certain shelves empty even if we ran out of the stock that should be there.
comment by #TopLad || Sir Alex Ferguson ||✓ (U10161)
posted 11 minutes ago
All prescriptions cost £9 now as a flat fee
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Not in Northern Ireland... We're free
Think Scotland are too
Don't understand why it's not across the board
comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by #TopLad || Sir Alex Ferguson ||✓ (U10161)
posted 11 minutes ago
All prescriptions cost £9 now as a flat fee
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Not in Northern Ireland... We're free
Think Scotland are too
Don't understand why it's not across the board
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Yes it's free up here in Scotland too
comment by Jinja Ninja (U19849)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 11 seconds ago
Slightly OT, but I read somewhere you shouldn't take ibuprofen if you have the virus. Though it seems to be precautionary advice.
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This is true.
In my words, it suppresses certain things which help in fighting certain viruses
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Good to know
The thing I used to hear a lot from my sibling is that with the flat fee here in England people would have been better buying some stuff, or alternatives, from supermarkets.
What a it would cost for a pack of say paracetamol in Tesco was almost what pharmacies were paying for a single tablet.
Maybe the supermarket price hikes have resulted in pharmacies having to charge more???
Not saying that's true by the way, but it wouldn't surp use me if it was. It's chit but how these things often work
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 13 seconds ago
comment by Jinja Ninja (U19849)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 11 seconds ago
Slightly OT, but I read somewhere you shouldn't take ibuprofen if you have the virus. Though it seems to be precautionary advice.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is true.
In my words, it suppresses certain things which help in fighting certain viruses
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Good to know
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I'm no authority on the subject, but have a bit of a health background and the advice that I'm aware of is that because it's an anti inflammatory, they can make pneumonia like symptoms worse.
Laptops have also been hiked up because they know businesses will be buying them to get people to work from home where possible.
Was dropping a parcel off at the Post Office yesterday morning and at the desk they had a massive vat of hand sanitiser, with a sign on it offering to dispense 100ml for £5.
Being a soap man, not well up on cost of sanitiser. Is this excessive and just profiteering?
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comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by #TopLad || Sir Alex Ferguson ||✓ (U10161)
posted 11 minutes ago
All prescriptions cost £9 now as a flat fee
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Not in Northern Ireland... We're free
Think Scotland are too
Don't understand why it's not across the board
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Yes it's free up here in Scotland too
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And Wales 👍
The thing to remember is that 90% of the worlds paracetamol is made in China and the factories are shut
What absolute rubbish from the OP. About 80% of the drugs/medicines are bought by the NHS at a fixed cost agreed many months before. Also most basics have a maximum sales price, they are not ‘inspectors’ making sure price levels are hiked.
comment by Arouna Jagielka oooh I wanna take ya, Heitinga... (U1308)
posted 21 minutes ago
What absolute rubbish from the OP. About 80% of the drugs/medicines are bought by the NHS at a fixed cost agreed many months before. Also most basics have a maximum sales price, they are not ‘inspectors’ making sure price levels are hiked.
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Try telling that to my brother's pharmacy, or the others who have since confirmed the price hike and having visits to ensure pricing is adhered to.
As I acknowledged very early on in the thread "inspectors" was the wrong word to use, maybe.
Non medicinal products, nappies, sanitary towels etc prices also checked
On the face of it it could be made to sound like they are ensuring prices are not self regulated. Problem is they have been hiked already
comment by Dubbed the new Arteta (U21076)
posted 3 hours, 45 minutes ago
Laptops have also been hiked up because they know businesses will be buying them to get people to work from home where possible.
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I bought myself a new MacBook Pro on Friday. Looks like I might have timed it just right!
comment by Barf Vader (U15867)
posted 11 hours, 8 minutes ago
Was dropping a parcel off at the Post Office yesterday morning and at the desk they had a massive vat of hand sanitiser, with a sign on it offering to dispense 100ml for £5.
Being a soap man, not well up on cost of sanitiser. Is this excessive and just profiteering?
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That’s around five times the standard retail price.
Apparently some people have been trying to sell Lidl’s 50ml hand sanitiser bottles on eBay for £25. Lidl usually sells them for 49p
Noticed it as I bought some calprofren for my daughter.
Scandalous
From what I've read, ibuprofen and any other anti-inflammatory does far more harm than good with this particular virus, and should probably be carrying a warning saying as such.
Realise that's not really relevant to your article, but just cautionary advice
comment by merrysupersteve - Jose'd he wouldn't be our Special One? (U1132)
posted 2 hours, 15 minutes ago
From what I've read, ibuprofen and any other anti-inflammatory does far more harm than good with this particular virus, and should probably be carrying a warning saying as such.
Realise that's not really relevant to your article, but just cautionary advice
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That's what we've been saying above
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posted on 17/3/20
Who employs the inspectors?
posted on 17/3/20
comment by Bales (U22081)
posted 25 seconds ago
Who employs the inspectors?
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Pharmaceutical companies probably, corrupt bassa's!
posted on 17/3/20
All prescriptions cost £9 now as a flat fee
posted on 17/3/20
Slightly OT, but I read somewhere you shouldn't take ibuprofen if you have the virus. Though it seems to be precautionary advice.
posted on 17/3/20
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 11 seconds ago
Slightly OT, but I read somewhere you shouldn't take ibuprofen if you have the virus. Though it seems to be precautionary advice.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is true.
In my words, it suppresses certain things which help in fighting certain viruses
posted on 17/3/20
comment by #TopLad || Sir Alex Ferguson ||✓ (U10161)
posted 1 minute ago
All prescriptions cost £9 now as a flat fee
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Over the counter medicine purchases have increased.
A single pharmacy, and this is fact with the one I'm on about, on certain days do not have loads of money in cash takings in the till.
So on a particular day this pharmacy would have less than £150. Consistent over the weeks and years.
Currently they are in excess of £1000 on said day
posted on 17/3/20
comment by Bales (U22081)
posted 8 minutes ago
Who employs the inspectors?
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Not sure tbh. Even the word "inspectors" may have been the wrong word. A person is coming in to check pricing though.
Will ask when I see my sibling
posted on 17/3/20
comment by Jinja Ninja (U19849)
posted 14 seconds ago
comment by Bales (U22081)
posted 8 minutes ago
Who employs the inspectors?
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Not sure tbh. Even the word "inspectors" may have been the wrong word. A person is coming in to check pricing though.
Will ask when I see my sibling
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From my limited experience in retail, it'll be the distributors. I worked in a music store many years ago and they'd 'inspect' to make sure the shelf space they'd paid for was in place. We had to keep certain shelves empty even if we ran out of the stock that should be there.
posted on 17/3/20
comment by #TopLad || Sir Alex Ferguson ||✓ (U10161)
posted 11 minutes ago
All prescriptions cost £9 now as a flat fee
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Not in Northern Ireland... We're free
Think Scotland are too
Don't understand why it's not across the board
posted on 17/3/20
comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by #TopLad || Sir Alex Ferguson ||✓ (U10161)
posted 11 minutes ago
All prescriptions cost £9 now as a flat fee
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Not in Northern Ireland... We're free
Think Scotland are too
Don't understand why it's not across the board
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes it's free up here in Scotland too
posted on 17/3/20
comment by Jinja Ninja (U19849)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 11 seconds ago
Slightly OT, but I read somewhere you shouldn't take ibuprofen if you have the virus. Though it seems to be precautionary advice.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is true.
In my words, it suppresses certain things which help in fighting certain viruses
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Good to know
posted on 17/3/20
The thing I used to hear a lot from my sibling is that with the flat fee here in England people would have been better buying some stuff, or alternatives, from supermarkets.
What a it would cost for a pack of say paracetamol in Tesco was almost what pharmacies were paying for a single tablet.
Maybe the supermarket price hikes have resulted in pharmacies having to charge more???
Not saying that's true by the way, but it wouldn't surp use me if it was. It's chit but how these things often work
posted on 17/3/20
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 13 seconds ago
comment by Jinja Ninja (U19849)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 11 seconds ago
Slightly OT, but I read somewhere you shouldn't take ibuprofen if you have the virus. Though it seems to be precautionary advice.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is true.
In my words, it suppresses certain things which help in fighting certain viruses
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Good to know
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm no authority on the subject, but have a bit of a health background and the advice that I'm aware of is that because it's an anti inflammatory, they can make pneumonia like symptoms worse.
posted on 17/3/20
Laptops have also been hiked up because they know businesses will be buying them to get people to work from home where possible.
posted on 17/3/20
Was dropping a parcel off at the Post Office yesterday morning and at the desk they had a massive vat of hand sanitiser, with a sign on it offering to dispense 100ml for £5.
Being a soap man, not well up on cost of sanitiser. Is this excessive and just profiteering?
posted on 17/3/20
Comment deleted by Site Moderator
posted on 17/3/20
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by #TopLad || Sir Alex Ferguson ||✓ (U10161)
posted 11 minutes ago
All prescriptions cost £9 now as a flat fee
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Not in Northern Ireland... We're free
Think Scotland are too
Don't understand why it's not across the board
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes it's free up here in Scotland too
----------------------------------------------------------------------
And Wales 👍
posted on 17/3/20
The thing to remember is that 90% of the worlds paracetamol is made in China and the factories are shut
posted on 17/3/20
What absolute rubbish from the OP. About 80% of the drugs/medicines are bought by the NHS at a fixed cost agreed many months before. Also most basics have a maximum sales price, they are not ‘inspectors’ making sure price levels are hiked.
posted on 17/3/20
comment by Arouna Jagielka oooh I wanna take ya, Heitinga... (U1308)
posted 21 minutes ago
What absolute rubbish from the OP. About 80% of the drugs/medicines are bought by the NHS at a fixed cost agreed many months before. Also most basics have a maximum sales price, they are not ‘inspectors’ making sure price levels are hiked.
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Try telling that to my brother's pharmacy, or the others who have since confirmed the price hike and having visits to ensure pricing is adhered to.
As I acknowledged very early on in the thread "inspectors" was the wrong word to use, maybe.
Non medicinal products, nappies, sanitary towels etc prices also checked
On the face of it it could be made to sound like they are ensuring prices are not self regulated. Problem is they have been hiked already
posted on 17/3/20
comment by Dubbed the new Arteta (U21076)
posted 3 hours, 45 minutes ago
Laptops have also been hiked up because they know businesses will be buying them to get people to work from home where possible.
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I bought myself a new MacBook Pro on Friday. Looks like I might have timed it just right!
posted on 18/3/20
comment by Barf Vader (U15867)
posted 11 hours, 8 minutes ago
Was dropping a parcel off at the Post Office yesterday morning and at the desk they had a massive vat of hand sanitiser, with a sign on it offering to dispense 100ml for £5.
Being a soap man, not well up on cost of sanitiser. Is this excessive and just profiteering?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That’s around five times the standard retail price.
Apparently some people have been trying to sell Lidl’s 50ml hand sanitiser bottles on eBay for £25. Lidl usually sells them for 49p
posted on 18/3/20
Noticed it as I bought some calprofren for my daughter.
Scandalous
posted on 18/3/20
From what I've read, ibuprofen and any other anti-inflammatory does far more harm than good with this particular virus, and should probably be carrying a warning saying as such.
Realise that's not really relevant to your article, but just cautionary advice
posted on 18/3/20
comment by merrysupersteve - Jose'd he wouldn't be our Special One? (U1132)
posted 2 hours, 15 minutes ago
From what I've read, ibuprofen and any other anti-inflammatory does far more harm than good with this particular virus, and should probably be carrying a warning saying as such.
Realise that's not really relevant to your article, but just cautionary advice
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That's what we've been saying above
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