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New offensive against pharmacies. A few weeks after winning a lawsuit against his advertising in April 2008 comparing drugs to luxury goods, Leclerc renewed the attack.
The retailer, which operates 134 parapharmacies within or adjacent to its supermarkets, has been calling for this Friday evening in a TV spot "that its doctors pharmacy have the right to sell all non-reimbursed medicines priced Leclerc." To now, the Leclerc parapharmacies mainly sell cosmetics, dietary supplements, dietary products and toiletries.
The market for 4 000 self-medication products is estimated at 1.9 billion euros. Unlike drugs sold only on prescription and reimbursed by Social Security, the price is free, but they remain the monopoly of pharmacists who have received authorization from Ministry of Health.They represent 6% of pharmacy sales and a greater share of their profits.
To put pressure on governments, Michel-Edouard Leclerc brandished a study commissioned from the Institute Bipe Showing that vitamins C Upsa, Nicorette patches and Nurofen tablets are sold up to three times the price of a pharmacy at the other in the same city.
"Free access to self-medication products in pharmacies and the pricing charged by Roselyne Bachelot in June 2008 does not work," thunders the boss Leclerc.It ensures that if its 180 doctors pharmacy got approval to sell these medicines, the purchasing power of patients and hypochondriacs increase.
Price halved
"If new operators held 20% of the market for non-reimbursed medicines, the prices of these fall by half," says Michel-Edouard Leclerc.
This time, it does not violate the law. "I'm not ready to accuse me of illegal practice of pharmacy, as was the case when Leclerc began to sell condoms," he acknowledges. But it is surprising that, despite anti-smoking campaigns, our parapharmacies have no right to sell Nicorette. "
The movement Leclerc, who is celebrating his sixty years, would it become less aggressive?
Undermined repeatedly on the effectiveness of measures to support employment developed by the government since the crisis began, Laurent Wauquiez has made a point Tuesday to step unpublished figures in support on the all the devices. "1.5 million people have benefited from various measures implemented since the beginning of the crisis," said Secretary of State for Employment. This does not mean that we have saved 1.5 million jobs, but that it helped or supported 1.5 million people. We are well beyond the goals we set ourselves. "
319 000 employees in total have benefited in the second quarter (against 157 000 at first) device for partial unemployment to better compensate for time not worked (up to 90% of net salary) and, in theory, use this time for training."It is a cultural revolution that operate upstream of redundancies in our country and avoid unemployment during the crossing of the crisis," stated Laurent Wauquiez, however, unable to say how many employees actually receive training to "adapt our productive "and" permit to rebound in the post-crisis.
No crisis of recruitment in the TPE
650 000 hires have been "supported" – that is to say, created or saved – since early February with the device "zero load" which is to exempt from social security contributions while recruitment at the minimum wage. This figure includes the windfall, that is to say that the hiring would have occurred anyway, helps or not. "The objective was to support 700 000 hires in 2009, further noted the Secretary of State.We should get to make as many hires in normal years, avoiding a crisis of recruitment in companies with fewer than 10 employees. "
Another point: 404 000 assisted contracts – subsidized by the state – have been prescribed since the start of the year: 326 000 in the commercial sector (87% of target 2 009) and 78 000 in the non-profit sector ( 78% of target). 125 000 retrenched (an increase in the number of beneficiaries over 500% since 2008) have also benefited from reclassification of a device that provides personalized coaching strengthened and enhanced unemployment compensation.
Its contracts alternately falling from 20% in early 2009 "has been halted" because the emergency plan implemented in the spring. The delay would be well more than 5%."There is even an improvement in the fall compared to last year," said Secretary of State for Employment, for which the government "has managed to save the youth employment because no return ' has not been, as expected, apocalyptic ".
"Confusion about the effects of recovery plan