Guild to battle supermarkets in pharmacy war
Australia’s supermarket giants will not rest until they are allowed to own community pharmacies, David Quilty, Pharmacy Guild of Australia executive director believes.
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In the Guild’s Forefront newsletter, Mr Quilty warned pharmacists that the current ownership rules were “not a fail-safe” in the fight to keep the profession out of the hands of Woolworths and Coles.
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Mr Quilty’s comments follow Woolworth’s application to IP Australia, to trademark ‘Pharmacy-in-Supermarket’, as reported by Pharmacy News.
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“This application is the latest example of Woolworths ‘gaming’ the trademark process,” he said. Inside Retail – Read more…
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