Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Aug 2019
Push for 24 hour convenience stores to sell prescription medicines
10 August 2019 - The peak body for convenience stores has backed calls to relax the strict rules governing pharmacies to enable Australians to buy medicines at its 6500 stores, including 7-Eleven and Caltex.
Jeff Rogut, chief executive of the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores, said prescription medications were high on the list of additional goods and services customers wanted to see in their outlets.
"When we do surveys of our customers, pharmacy ranks up there with things like postal services as one of the top items they would like to see in a convenience store," Mr Rogut told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
