Online veterinary drug store turning over £750K per month

RE: Online veterinary drug store turning over £750K per month

WTF_dinosaur — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:03:40 GMT

In complete agreement! we cannot compete and like Tracy said we will have to raise prices in other places soon!

RE: Online veterinary drug store turning over £750K per month

Tracy Windler RVN — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:24:12 GMT

I had a bit of an "altercation" with some dog crazy people on a forum about this subject. I disagreed with using internet pharmacies and asked that they support their small, local practice instead. They said they would spend their money wherever was cheapest, so I pointed out that if vets cannot generate revenue from drugs, would they be prepared to pay between £80-100 for a consult instead. The answer: "How proposterous that anyone would charge that much for a consult. Vets would go out of business if they did" The general public just have no idea about the costs it takes to run small practices.

RE: Online veterinary drug store turning over £750K per month

Juliet Drummond DAVN (med) RVN D32/33 — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:48:40 GMT

i second what sal said, as a small practice we simply cannot compete with online prices, we focus on client care instead of pile em high, sell em low!

RE: Online veterinary drug store turning over £750K per month

Sal the 1st — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:33:00 GMT

the main supplier to our practice (but for how much longer? - who must have huge buying power and leading on from that huge bulk discounts from manufacturers) is still trying to sell us products that are in some cases twice or more the cost of the internet pharmacies and are now refusing to deal with group buying schemes ( we are not a corporate but a small standalone practice) - some of the companies supplying vet practices are getting far too greedy, if they continue to be greedy it will result in more internet prescriptions and even fewer sales for veterinary practices.Wholesalers cannot survive without the practices who purchase from them - its not only down to the practices to revise profit margins to survive.