Inflation ???

[Rich One]

Yes shopping for food in BA is a full time job, and the major source of entertainment for retired expats...!

 

[gusgutier]

Hi there.

We've actually done just that, we decided to try the local supermarkets here in Palermo and found a really well priced Chinese operated one. Found a bag of oven chips for £2 and some really nice bread so it's a chip butty for me tomorrow! Yay! (simple things)

Thanks for all the rest of the information it's really useful. I've just passed it on to the Mrs who's made a note for next time we're shopping.

We've come from San José, then to Panama City, Montevideo to here. We absolutely loved San José for anyone who's interested. Yes there was obvious signs of poverty, but the people were just so sweet and kind to us. We have limited Spanish but do try to communicate in the language whenever we are travelling, and as soon as we would speak Spanish in our obviously British accents they would immediately ask "where are you from, do you like it here, what is London like" etc etc. Really sweet people.

The Uruguayans were also nice to us for the most part.

We've had a decent experience here so far but some people are just outright rude. My other half as a doctor went to the farmacia to ask for sleeping tablets which she knew were prescription (we have a 13 hour flight ahead of us and we both struggle to sleep on planes), so that the pharmacist could tell her where to go to see a doctor. The pharmacist was utterly uninterested. My other half even explained using Google translate that she was a doctor and was simply looking for a quick appointment. The pharmacist looked at her like she was a piece of s**t on her shoe and just said "no". Then walked off.

Put an Argentinian in the same position in the UK and a pharmacist would bend over backwards to accommodate them. I can guarantee that.

It wasn't just the pharmacist either. The Argentinians next to us on the counter seemed to be smirking at our expense.

Maybe the UK vs Argentina thing is still a bit sore here, or maybe we just got unlucky. I don't know. I'm still going to be positive though and take each day as it comes.

We're off to New Zealand next. Which is also very pricy apparently, but we're still very excited. Its a place we've always wanted to go.

Thanks for your kind comment and advice, and all the best.

Paul and Catherine.

Sedatives and other psycho medications are highly cotrolled here You need double prescription to buy them (one copy is reserved for ministry of health ). Your half is not a doctor here. Even if she showed her title, she also needs local validation and and a registered number both of ministry of internal affairs and health. Not trying to justify a rude pharmacist (that for sure it exists ) may you seemed a pair of foreign drug addicts trying to buy stuff. The suggestion was right, you must go to a registerd doctor for a doble prescription to buy.

 

[Rich One]

Sedatives and other psycho medications are highly cotrolled here You need double prescription to buy them (one copy is reserved for ministry of health ). Your half is not a doctor here. Even if she showed her title, she also needs local validation and and a registered number both of ministry of internal affairs and health. Not trying to justify a rude pharmacist (that for sure it exists ) may you seemed a pair of foreign drug addicts trying to buy stuff. The suggestion was right, you must go to a registerd doctor for a doble prescription to buy.

Pharmacists must face all day long horror stories from people that need restricted medications without a prescription... On the other hand here you can buy most medications without prescription..! which is a benefit.

 

[gusgutier]

Pharmacists must face all day long horror stories from people that need restricted medications without a prescription... On the other hand here you can buy most medications without prescription..! which is a benefit.

It is not quite right. Going to public hospital, most of the times you get free medication including psychopharmacology. But it is true that some pharmacies sells any medication without prescription paying an extra.

 

[TomAtAlki]

Great buy, hope you enjoyed them... The quoted price of US$8.70 for local eggs places local eggs above the price of the best USA eggs.....! Interesting .


Only want to know where to get some of those eggs. ?

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough. The $175AR was for 30 eggs. The prices quoted for the us eggs was for 12 eggs.

T/

 

[Pabby1980]

Sedatives and other psycho medications are highly cotrolled here You need double prescription to buy them (one copy is reserved for ministry of health ). Your half is not a doctor here. Even if she showed her title, she also needs local validation and and a registered number both of ministry of internal affairs and health. Not trying to justify a rude pharmacist (that for sure it exists ) may you seemed a pair of foreign drug addicts trying to buy stuff. The suggestion was right, you must go to a registerd doctor for a doble prescription to buy.

We weren't asking for the drugs we were asking for her to tell us where we could see a doctor, which she flatly refused.

Anyway, no big deal....there's one disgruntled whiney loser born every minute, I'm certainty not going to let that one ruin my trip.

 

[Rich One]

It is not quite right. Going to public hospital, most of the times you get free medication including psychopharmacology. But it is true that some pharmacies sells any medication without prescription paying an extra.

Two issues: I visited Public Hospitals for nearly ten years.... never asked for Psychopharma products? other medications are given free.
All pharmacies I visited in Capital and Provincia will sell medication without prescription for the posted price, some pharmacies have 25 % discount i.e. Berutti and Larrea. Antibiotics are sold without prescription. IMO

 

[bobsnowpuppy]

The law is that all antibiotics and most other controlled substance medications must have a prescription from a doctor here. Not all pharmacies follow the law and that’s why you can walk in and get antibiotics without a prescription. The chain pharmacies such as Farmacia nine times out of 10 will demand a prescription for penicillin for example.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

By the way, by the way, my 30 eggs for 55 pesos which became 30 eggs for 65 became 30 eggs for 95 this week. Now that did surprise me!

In other news, a few hours ago I bought a couple of bottles of Gordons Gin for 137 pesos each at a special offer in Coto. It's exported (though the label doesn't specifically state from where it has been exported) and even though Gordons isn't my favourite gin, if I'm paying approximately one-third of the UK price, I'm prepared to tolerate it

 

[gusgutier]

Two issues: I visited Public Hospitals for nearly ten years.... never asked for Psychopharma products? other medications are given free.
All pharmacies I visited in Capital and Provincia will sell medication without prescription for the posted price, some pharmacies have 25 % discount i.e. Berutti and Larrea. Antibiotics are sold without prescription. IMO

Going to Alvear Hospital ( Mental health, acute cases, Warnes st. ) , if you¨re under treatment there , you get medication for the whole week, of course, under indication of a doctor of the house. Going to shock room (emergency , urgency called here ) you get medication for 2 days and so on till you are under treatment there. We are talking psychopharma.
About selling non free sale medication without prescription.... I don¨t know too much conurbano way of life but presuming very different realities between La Lucila and Aldo Bonzi. May be it is as you say, but illegal. And may be it is usual to sell anti bio and viagra, but other medications I dont think so. Try to buy metadona.