Sales of cold medicine at convenience stores shoot up - The Korea Herald

Sales of over-the-counter medicines astatine convenience stores successful South Korea person accrued amid the latest resurgence of COVID-19 infections and outbreak of seasonal influenza.

Since November 2012, the authorities has allowed convenience stores to merchantability respective kinds of over-the-counter medicine.

According to convenience store concatenation GS25, income of acold medicines betwixt Dec. 1 and 15 accrued by 128.3 percent on-year. Sales of different over-the-counter medicines besides went up 78.1 percent during the period.

Emart24, a convenience store concatenation nether Korean retail elephantine Shinsegae, besides said its income of fever reducers during the two-week play person gone up 119 percent from a twelvemonth earlier.

Another convenience store concatenation CU besides reported that its income of acold medicines and different over-the-counter medicines accrued 48.1 percent and 60 percent, respectively.

A idiosyncratic who operates a convenience store successful Seoul said income of over-the-counter medicines person accrued recently. The convenience store proprietor expected that radical seemed to person purchased much medicines successful lawsuit of emergencies.

Local convenience store chains are trying to unafraid capable over-the-counter medicine banal to conscionable the expanding demand.

"The institution is trying to unafraid capable banal but is having occupation securing them," an Emart24 authoritative said.

“I was told that section pharmaceutical companies are expanding their accumulation of acold medicines. We volition besides effort to unafraid arsenic overmuch of the medicines arsenic we can,” an authoritative from CU said.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety earlier this period issued an exigency accumulation bid to 18 pharmaceutical companies for 18 medicines utilized to dainty colds and flu.

By Shim Woo-hyun (ws@heraldcorp.com)