Why are there so many pharmacies now?

Some people say that there are two kinds of best money in the world, one is children's money, and the other is always the money of the dead. These two kinds of money correspond to two major events in the family, one is a big happy event and the other is a big funeral.

Now we might as well add one more item, that is, making money for patients. This is the money earned by the pharmacy.

Strictly speaking, sometimes pharmacies make money, not to cure diseases, but to prevent diseases. After all kinds of clever sales promotion by waiters, many people bought a lot of bottles and cans to go home, but the result was overdue and they didn't eat a few.

For example, a large number of calcium supplements, vitamin C, health products and so on.

For example, once, the baby at home needs to take a medicine called Jianerle, which is a medicine that regulates the spleen and stomach, calms the nerves and helps sleep. At first, I bought this medicine in a private clinic. Later, the clinic was out of stock, so I bought it at the drugstore. It was almost impossible to buy it later.

Through online search, I found a pharmaceutical factory that distributes this medicine. The pharmaceutical factory is in the same city! The top price given by the pharmaceutical factory to the pharmacy is 10 yuan, and the selling price of the pharmacy is 25 yuan, and the price difference is 15 yuan! ! !

The staff of the pharmaceutical company said that it can be delivered by express delivery. If the courier fee is removed from ten cases and five cases, the buyer will still save a lot of money. If not, it will have to wait for the company to deliver the goods to the pharmacy. The key is that this medicine is not widely distributed, only a few pharmacies are selected, and there are many secrets in it.

From the perspective of pharmaceutical circulation enterprises, there must be a subtle formula that can play a role except the decoration cost and labor cost of logistics counters. In the end, patients are completely passive in buying drugs, subject to sellers and the layout of this market, and there is no room for discussion.

The advice I can give is to buy medicine. If you don't take it for a long time, it is advisable to buy as little as possible. You can buy one box instead of two.

In addition, promote sales for pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies and buy more gifts; Membership day is five times and ten times. Buy more and give more. Choose carefully.

Do you find that there are a lot of medicines at home, and in the end they really turn into garbage and throw them all away?

As a licensed pharmacist who works as an R&D engineer in a pharmaceutical company, I can answer professional questions from my personal understanding of this industry, and popularize some precautions for daily drug purchase, so that everyone can spend the right money to receive the best treatment effect.

How dark is the pharmacy and how high is the profiteering? First of all, this question is not very scientific. In the eyes of most people, this question can also question the hospital. In fact, pharmacies are just like hospitals. There are doctors who prescribe drugs and get kickbacks, and salesmen who recommend drugs or health care products and get commissions. In fact, this phenomenon is even worse in retail pharmacies than in hospitals. I think this may be the reason why people think that hospital black pharmacies are black. I'll discuss with you a way to minimize being fooled by drug salesmen who have no career path behind them.

Let's talk about the profiteering of pharmacies first. At present, the profit of a considerable number of drugs is about 300-800% (note that most of them are not all). A friend in front also posted a picture of the purchase price and sales price of the pharmacy, so it is definitely a conscience pharmacy. You can have a look, and I won't reinvent the wheel. Why is this happening? This is because of some reasons for opening a pharmacy itself. As we all know, pharmacies must be opened in downtown areas with large traffic or next to hospitals and residential areas, and the corresponding rents in these places are also very expensive; Decoration must be carried out in accordance with GSP regulations, with cold storage, warehouse and buffer zone. Different drugs also have different storage standards. Note: this must be strictly implemented, otherwise the loss will be great; There is also staffing, with licensed pharmacists (although many things are registered). The basic salary of licensed pharmacists is 5- 10w a year, and the salary consumption of pharmacists and salespersons in stores is also very high, at least much larger than that of ordinary retail. These aspects are very different from the general retail industry. There is also a competition problem: as the subject said, "there are pharmacies everywhere." Indeed, generally speaking, there are 1-3 pharmacies and 4-8 pharmacies in a community. In fact, many pharmacies don't make money when they are open or closed. Don't just watch the "thief" eat meat instead of the "thief" being beaten (a saying in my hometown, although the metaphor is not appropriate). Now there is the impact of Internet drug retail, and it has taken away a considerable part of the market. Note that retail pharmacies (kidney-tonifying beauty and gynecological health products) have the largest profit margin in this market. In view of the above reasons, in order to survive, pharmacies will have the above-mentioned immoral drug salesmen to recommend some useless and expensive drugs and health care products to everyone, so that everyone feels that pharmacies are black and profiteering.

What I want to discuss now is how to reduce the possibility of being slaughtered as an ordinary consumer. First: everyone should have common sense of drug abuse. Some netizens may say that this is too professional, how can we ordinary consumers master it! Actually, it is not. As the ancients said, parents don't know that doctors are unkind. As a child, I don't know if medicine is unfilial, which means that everyone should know something about medicine and pharmacy. Ordinary people will get a minor illness every 1-3 months, or catch a cold or wind-heat cold, or cough and sore throat, or aversion to cold and fever, or abdominal distension and vomiting, or sores on the mouth and tongue. As long as you use a little snack, you will go to the hospital the first two times and only prescribe two or three drugs. After taking the medicine, read the drug instructions. With a little attention, they will gradually form common sense. Second: this is more professional. It is a commercial medicine, especially western medicine. A medicinal ingredient will have different trade names, which makes everyone very confused. Generally, drugs from well-known manufacturers and pharmacies will have a lower drug bonus, especially those from the original research factory, which has the lowest profit margin and is of course the most expensive, but the effect is definitely the best (99% of them are not unexpected), as long as the insiders know. It is not that the efficacy of domestic drugs is not good, but that the same variety is almost no better than that of the original research factory, because most of the drug consistency evaluations carried out in China are based on the drugs of the original research factory. Many generic drugs produced before (most of the western medicines sold in the domestic market are generic drugs at present) have not been evaluated for consistency. However, in the next few years, with the improvement of national policies and the improvement of the technical level of domestic pharmaceutical companies, this drug effect gap will become smaller and smaller. You can rest assured. The second point is to buy medicines from well-known manufacturers as much as possible, and buy the original research factory if economic conditions permit. The third point to say: it is also a misunderstanding of everyone: the medicine in the hospital is more expensive than that in the pharmacy. In fact, with the state's control over the price of drugs in hospitals, drugs in most hospitals, especially primary health centers, are cheaper than those in pharmacies. This is not to encourage everyone to go to the hospital. This is because for some patients with long-term chronic diseases, they don't have to go to pharmacies to buy high-priced drugs, and they also avoid being fooled by unprofessional salesmen to buy some expensive but ineffective health care products.

Having said that, I just want everyone not to think that pharmacies are profiteering and have psychological shadows; On the other hand, we should strengthen our study, learn some common sense related to our health and life, and reduce the chance of being fooled by bad businesses.

Finally, as a researcher and producer of drugs, I will tell you a future situation: the quality of drugs will get better and better, and the price of drugs will only be more expensive than now, but it will gradually stabilize within a reasonable range that everyone can bear.

I'll tell you another secret: sometimes I or my children are sick, and I will run to the hospital as quickly as possible. It means: some diseases, it is still reliable to go to the hospital to find a doctor.

First of all, people's living standards have improved, and they pay more attention to health. There is demand.

Secondly, if people get older, more and more people will get sick.

There is demand.

Third, now the hospital sampling, high drug prices, inconvenient. It is also a reason.

It doesn't feel like pharmacies are everywhere. It can be said that all parts of the country are basically the same.

I caught a cold the day before yesterday. I went to the drugstore to buy cold medicine, mainly tonsillitis and fever, and two boxes of 56 yuan. I am shocked by this price.

At that time, I went home and scanned the code on Tmall to check the price of one 8 yuan and the other 12 yuan, and the postage was guaranteed. It is estimated that the cost of two boxes of medicine is just under 8 yuan, and I thought at that time that "the pharmacy is really dark" and I wanted to open one.

Then why are there so many pharmacies? The reason for this is the following：

Before 1 (before 15), most of us were poor. If we want to catch a cold, we can endure it by bumping and scratching. But now that the living standard has improved, I am willing to spend some money to see these diseases. With such a large population base in China, who can say that he doesn't catch a cold once a year? The prices of these pharmacies are generally high, and some are even outrageous. As the old saying goes, "If it doesn't open in three years, it will open in three years." As long as a few customers come today, they will all make money.

After seeing a doctor in the hospital, some people don't buy it in the hospital, but go out to the pharmacy to buy it. Compared with hospitals, the prices of these pharmacies are lower, which also breeds the phenomenon that hospitals are all pharmacies.

The emergence of medical insurance card added fuel to the fire. It is understood that medical insurance for employees was only implemented in China on 1998, but at that time, the monthly salary was several hundred yuan, and there was not much money in the medical insurance card. With the rising wages, the medical insurance cards of some employees now cost about 100 yuan a month (3.2%-3.4% of wages) and more than 1000 yuan a year. These pharmacies can basically use their cards, and the money in the cards will be swiped sooner or later. If a community has 1000 employee health insurance cards, there will be1000 million people every year, so these people who run pharmacies are very sophisticated. I heard that a good relationship can be cashed out!

That's all I know. If there are any shortcomings, we can discuss them together below!

Making money quickly is selling drugs and robbing people. The profit margin of drugs is very large. Although pharmacies are everywhere now, they are still booming, mainly because the rate of patients rising is extremely high. It is this amazing rising speed that makes hospitals and pharmacies everywhere. This is also the sorrow of modern people. Health is inversely proportional to the development of society. The prosperity of hospitals and pharmacies is abnormal. Only by improving people's physical quality can we change this.

I knew there were pharmacies everywhere. Recently, however, dental problems have begun to be discovered: "dental clinics" or "dental hospitals" in Qingdao are everywhere, everywhere! After several treatments, I spent nearly 20 thousand with my wife before "planting teeth"

Why are there so many pharmacies, and each insists on opening the door to welcome customers? From the perspective of market economy. You lose a thousand dollars in one day. Any pharmacy is expected to close within three months. This also shows that. Only when there is money can pharmacies continue to read.

There are so many pharmacies now that every one is open for business. This means that they must make money. The money earned by pharmacies is an unexpected profit. Most of the money is spent on the new special medicine sold to you by the salesperson. And those commonly used drugs actually don't make much money. So when we go to the drugstore to buy medicine, we must remember to buy the medicine we specify. I want to hear the introduction and recommendation of the clerk. The salary of many salespeople is directly proportional to the sales.

Because air, water and food are polluted and destroyed to varying degrees.

Pharmacies are actually very difficult to do, and a quarter lose money.

I am a pharmacist in China. Let me answer this question.

Why are there so many pharmacies now? As a pharmacist with 15 years of pharmaceutical experience, it is mainly analyzed from two aspects, one is the supply side and the other is the demand side.

Let's talk about suppliers first. In recent years, more and more retail pharmacies have mushroomed in every corner of cities and rural areas. Why is everyone keen on opening pharmacies? Personally, there are two key factors, one is the profit of drugs, and the other is the policy support of the state.

Wen once talked with some pharmacy managers or bosses about the topic of drug profits. Generally speaking, the profit of drugs is still considerable. If a single pharmacy deals in both western medicine and Chinese medicine, the comprehensive profit may reach 50%-60%. Of course, this is gross profit. If rent, labor costs, utilities and other expenses are excluded, there will probably be a profit margin of 20%-30%. Specifically, the profit of Chinese herbal medicine is higher than that of Chinese patent medicine, and the profit of Chinese patent medicine is higher than that of western medicine, which is probably such a ranking. Then, because of fierce competition, the profits of the three high drugs are basically not very high, while the profits of antibiotics are relatively high. The flow of chain pharmacies is greater, and the cost of intermediate links is reduced. Therefore, the profit of chain pharmacies will be higher than that of single pharmacies. In short, it is precisely because the operating profit of pharmacies is relatively objective that many pharmacies have opened in various communities and business districts in recent years. Let's look at the chain pharmacies Yifeng Pharmacy, Lin, tongjitang, and the people in the capital market. Both the annual report and the offline sales amount show the development speed of pharmacies.

Then talk about the demand side. We know that China is a country with a large population. So far, our total population is about1400 million, which is the largest in the world. According to statistics, the elderly population in China is about 200-300 million, which fully shows that China is a country with a large elderly population. Medical treatment is indispensable in our life. Such a large demand will inevitably stimulate the emergence of various medical institutions and retail pharmacies. In addition to the elderly, more and more young people pay more attention to their health, thus leaving a lot of living space for pharmacies.

The state promotes the proportion of medical insurance reimbursement to increase year by year, and at the same time, more drugs and more people are included in medical insurance. These people enjoy the dividends brought by the reform and development, and they can use their medical insurance cards to buy medicines in pharmacies. Of course, they prefer to go to the drugstore to buy some medicines, and of course they will also buy some health products. So this also indirectly promoted the development of pharmacies.

With the centralized procurement of drugs by medical institutions, medical institutions cancel the drug addition. People suddenly find that it is cheaper to buy medicine in hospitals than pharmacies, which is a test for the future development of pharmacies. Of course, some patients who are afraid of trouble will still choose pharmacies or categories that the hospital does not have, and some patients will choose pharmacies. However, some patients with three high and chronic diseases who take medicine for a long time will be diverted. Of course, the increasingly fierce competition among pharmacies may lead to the size of the pharmacy industry, the strong alliance, the survival of the fittest.

In a word, I personally feel that pharmacies have reached a certain peak at present. With the implementation of centralized drug procurement policy and drug quantity procurement, the number of pharmacies will gradually decrease. At the same time, large chain pharmacies will have a better development. Pharmacy will not only sell drugs, but also provide more medical services and medication guidance. Personally, I think the development of things must have its inevitability, so does the pharmacy. Its development is inseparable from patients and national policies, and I hope a little personal opinion can answer the landlord's questions.

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