So I get off work the other day at midnight or 1AM and since I have a case of the sniffles I decide to go to the grocery store for some cold medicine. It’s locked up. This is because it is apparently against the law in Nova Scotia to buy over the counter cold medicine (syrup, pills etc) without a pharmacist on duty.
So let me get this straight, when there’s a pharmacist on duty, I can walk up to the shelf, take the medicine, pay for it at the checkout without interacting with the pharmacist at all, but he legally has to be there? This stinks of big government BS. I was albe to buy these same pills at a gas station in Quebec. Non prescription drugs are on the shelf anyway and I can freely take as many as I want without saying one word to the pharmacist. I should be able to do the same if there is not one present. Someone please tell me why it should matter if there is a pharmacist present or not for me to buy cold meds. —Too many rules
This article appears in Mar 6-12, 2014.
Fuck me, if I have to read one more whiny bitch that includes a description of what it was like where the person came from I’m going to lose my fucking mind.
locked up in BC as well when pharmacist is gone. it is related to proximity to sea water.
the ions interact with cold meds and only the presence of a licensed pharmacist keeps them from melting in your hands.
quebec is fairly close to salt water, but they don’t give a merde if your cold meds melt before you get to pop them.
Ob, i know the store you are referring to and the employees are full of shit. Most of those meds are availabe at convenience stores across the province.
Awwww poor little Snowflake had the sniffles and somehow forgot that a pharmacist can be a female these days. True story.
You have a cold, not cancer. Grin and bear it.
People talking about what things are like outside of NS really bothers you that much? No wonder you’re cranky. I still think it’s a stupid and pointless rule that serves no purpose. I’ll assume that GDM is joking.
I assumed it had to do with theft or something. I remember some guys that had sales on the sidewalk near the Barrington superstore were selling tons of boxes of sudafed one time.
I don’t see how a pharmacist prevents theft. They’re not usually keeping an eye out or anything. Hell, it can be hard to even get their attention.
The one time I encountered this it was in the now largely empty shopping centre on the corner of Barrington & Duke that likes to fuck over independent restaurant owners. The cold products are on the shelf, behind locked glass and only the pharmacist has the key. After 12:00 noon on a Saturday – no pharmacist, so Tango Sierra. Like with razor blades in certain other places. Presumably the corporate entity can track “shinkage” and can identify what types of product are at most risk to walk out the door in specific locations.
Either that, or a major drug store chain is now being run by the Provincial Government >; )