The parapharmacy sector is a real issue for large retailers. While the historic sign E.Leclerc has already been offering e-cigarettes for some time, and today she would like to be able to offer other products to quit smoking, including nicotine patches.
A “NEW SITE” FOR THE GIANT E.LECLERC!
Guest of the Europe morning 1, Monday 27 August, to present his new offer on electricity, Michel-Edouard Leclerc, CEO of E. Leclerc signs also mentioned « his next job », health, on which he claims to have arrested Agnès Buzyn, health Minister. « We want to sell self-tests and nicotine patches in our parapharmacies. We have pharmacists who can sell them, launched Michel-Edouard Leclerc.
» It's amazing, we sell electronic cigarettes and we can not sell patches "- Michel-Edouard Leclerc
Asked by Nikos Alliagas, the president of the brand was careful to omit that, as part of the National Tobacco Reduction Plan, several references 
patches, erasers and lozenges were already supported at 65% in pharmacy.
For information, this trade war with pharmacies does not really date from today, already in 1986, E.Leclerc found it "bizarre" that certain products were only offered in pharmacies.
Source : Lemoniteurdespharmacies.fr/
