With the advent of the Internet age, most of the world's stuff can be bought online. Medicines that can cure diseases are one of them, but buying them online is a bit of a concern.
Because the drugs on the Internet are much cheaper than those in physical pharmacies, this can't help but make people a little suspicious whether such cheap drugs are real or fake, and whether they have normal efficacy.
In fact, there is a reason why the drugs bought online are cheap.
Online pharmacies have an advantage that brick-and-mortar pharmacies don't have, and that is the audience.
The audience of physical pharmacies is the population in the surrounding area where the physical pharmacy is located, and the size of the surrounding area depends on the profit of the physical pharmacy, while the online pharmacy does not need to depend on the size of the population in the area, only a mobile phone, and patients will buy drugs through online channels.
In addition, physical pharmacies also need to take the initiative to pick up medicines by themselves, while online pharmacies can deliver them directly to your home, which is much more convenient than physical pharmacies.
The reduction in drug prices is not only a difference in the audience, but also a clear difference, which is that online pharmacies do not need to rent stores, but physical pharmacies do.
Moreover, the price of the store where the physical pharmacy is located is not the same, after all, some areas are prosperous, the audience will be large, and the rent of the store will also increase.
On the contrary, the audience will be smaller, and the rent will be reduced.
In addition, brick-and-mortar pharmacies also need to be staffed with doctors, cashiers, and store assistants, which are all cost issues that brick-and-mortar pharmacies need to face.
Online pharmacies, on the other hand, do not need to pay the high cost of the store, nor do they need to pay too much for the wages of manpower, but only need a cheap warehouse, delivery staff and courier fees. Therefore, online pharmacies reduce a lot of expenses compared to physical pharmacies in terms of cost.
There are also some reasons for the price of drugs sold in online pharmacies and physical pharmacies, that is, the service attitude of the clerks and the competition between online pharmacies and physical pharmacies.
When selling drugs in physical pharmacies, you need to consider the service attitude of the clerks. During the period when customers buy medicines, the service attitude of the clerk should be good, once the customer leaves a bad impression, then the customer will most likely change the pharmacy, and the Internet does not need to think so much, the customer sees what kind of medicine, just need to buy it, and there is no need to consider the attitude at all.
Physical pharmacies are still quite helpless for online pharmacies, after all, the cost of online pharmacies is too low, and physical pharmacies can't fight a price war at all due to the cost problem, while online pharmacies have obvious advantages, that is, low prices.
In order to attract customers, online pharmacies have launched low-price promotions or vouchers to reduce the price of medicines, making buyers shout "affordable". Therefore, the main focus of online pharmacies selling drugs is "price war".
However, the price of drugs in online pharmacies is set too low, so that customers are a little suspicious that the efficacy of the drug has also decreased with the reduction of prices, after all, customers are not fools, for low-cost drugs, so that their body has problems, then the gains outweigh the losses.
In fact, in terms of the quality of drugs, we need to learn a way to screen the authenticity of the drugs we buy, screen them through the website of the State Food and Drug Administration, and verify them according to the instructions of the drugs, and determine whether the approval number is true. In addition, you have to determine the production date and expiration date. It should also be noted that the difference between counterfeit drugs and genuine products is that the printing is not clear, such as in the packaging, font and pattern, etc.
There are a lot of online pharmacies, but you need to have a pair of "sharp eyes" to judge whether the medicine you buy is real, don't buy drugs online casually for a little cheapness, and try to buy them on some regular online platforms.
Only in this way can everyone's safety be guaranteed.
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