CHEMISTS AND CHAIN STORES
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—"One of the Public" wants to know why medicine is .dearer out here than it is in the Old Country. To begin with, it is most certainly not the fault of our chemists. There are several reasons—-higher cost .of living, freight on goods, Customs duties, high exchange rate, sales tax, unemployment taxes, higher wages paid to both wholesale and retail assistants, ,shop rents, and various other items. Then again the public are largely to blame. They could help considerably to lower the price by buying then- household lines from the chemists, tooth pastes, face powders, manicures, patent medicines, and all toilet articles, that they pay the same price for elsewhere. There are some people who buy ■ all these lines elsewhere during shopping hours, and knock a chemist up at one or two a.m. and ask him to dispense a prescription, and expect to get it for nothing, or probably ask him to.book it up.—l am' etc..
A NEW ZEALANDER.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 10
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