Pharmacy counter staff useless

I work in a pharmacy for asda and we are trained and give adivce to the products we sell, for the lady complaing about the sleeping pills. If u buy them regually you will not beallowed them. They are for tempory use, if you have a sleep problem, you should be seeing the doctor. Sales of sleeping tablets are sold behind a pharmacy counter as you can become addictive to them this is why you would of been refused this sale. Asking nicely will not change the fact you have had them alot or recently. A sale once a month is enough if that for temp use, with out a perscription.

Has anybody else been refused an over the counter medicine out there?

I take a couple of syndols every night, it gets me off to sleep nicely. However on a number of occasions including this morning I have actually been refused, despite asking politely and having the money. I think this is totally outrageous. The syndol company want to sell me their product and I wish to buy their product. It is not fair on the workers of the syndol company (based in oldham) that pharmacy workers block the sale of their product. The law should be that if a person wishes to buy an over the counter product he should be sold that product !

I can sympathise with your comments, but having just started work as a complete novice in a pharmacy, I have to say that I have had a bit of a shock with how much I need to learn about selling over the counter products. Although I am sure I'm doing a better job than the assistant you are talking about!

shutup u soft get if it was that easy why didnt you directly ask for something instead of asking questions. yes it may of been easy but obviously they didnt like the look of you

I am a trained counter assistant at SUPERDRUG and have worked there for 4 yrs. Prior to that I have also worked at Boots and Lloyds. Firstly I would have suggested an antihistamine to reduce the itching. Piriton is good but can make you drowsy. My favourite in the non-drowsy department is Benadryl (in the blue box not the orange one). Secondly to rub on the actual site, Anthisan which is a topical anti-histamine. Histamine is a chemical the body produces in reaction to a bite or nettle sting (hence "anti-histamine"). This chemical is what gives you the itching. On point number 2, as we work in a busy City centre, our pharmacist has a half-hour break at 2pm so that we can be as helpful as possible. Some of us are well trained, next time pick us!

real pharmacist; I hope you don't work in a chemist near me! With your standard of literacy I'd be a bit worried about getting the correct dose of the correct drugs!

hey us pharmacist need to eat as well...why should we have the inconvenience of taking lunch very early...or starving ourselves untill after two....just to please you!!!!!!!!!

You don't say what day you went into the pharmacy but I'm guessing from your experience it was a saturday. I worked in a pharmacy for 4 years and I can assure you all that permanent staff are set on full training courses which teaches them the ins and outs of medication on the shelves, and this is ongoing as new proiducts come in. Unfortunately, the courses cost money and therefore saturday or part-time staff aren't always offered this course due to lack of funds.

A pharmacist needs a break like everyone else. So if you can't get your medication at lunch, just be thankful that when the pharmacist returns refreshed from lunch they are less likely to make a mistake which may kill you, than if they have worked for 10 hours solid. We don't just count tablets out!!!!

I have to agree with Red on the choice of words used by the person airing their gripe. Ok to gripe but to slag off people and say the word Bimbo and as much as say check out operators are idiots, is wrong totally wrong

Most Pharmacies in this country are third world institutions, selling perfumes, hair dyes, and other non-essential goods. Why should you expect someone on minimum wage to know anything?

PRESCRIPTION CHARGES! I know that there are many people like me who have a condition which needs medication for life. I am 57yrs old and I have osteoporosis which limits employment opportunities. I am not working and don't claim benefits. My husband is 63 so he gets free prescriptions but I have to pay for 3 items per prescription which costs £20 + every few weeks. If I lived in Scotland or Wales I wouldn't have to pay. How unfair is that?