Viagra to be sold over-the-counter at Tesco

Posted by Steven Allen on 20th Sep 10

Supermarket chain Tesco has announced that it will start selling the anti-impotence drug Viagra over the counter and at half the price Boots is currently providing it at. Until Boots started offering Viagra to customers last year, the only way to get hold of the little blue pills was with a prescription or via the internet.

Tesco said it would be selling the drug at £52 for eight pills; Boots currently sells four for £55. Those wishing to purchase Viagra will be able to do so as of next Monday from 300 Tesco pharmacies throughout the country. As with other over-the-counter medicines, customers can simply place the pills in their shopping basket before having them run through a till.

Commercial manager for pharmacy services at Tesco, Shona Scott, said buying Viagra at Tesco’s would now be the cheapest way of procuring the drug in the UK without prescription. She acknowledged that Boots already provided the service, but that Tesco was half the price.

A spokesperson for the grocer said Tesco pharmacy staff would be put through a special training programme to help them deal with customers wanting the pills. The course involves different scenarios staff might encounter such as a man describing his needs using slang terms and an older man trying to explain what he was after, but having trouble getting the right words out.

Pharmacists will also be able to test customers for high blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol: a few of the conditions under which the ingestion of Viagra is not necessarily advisable.

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