Tesco pharmacy - returns policy

celebrate

hi to be honest if you are so worried about them interacting with the medication you are on you should have discussed this specifically with the pharmacist before you bought them and so would be unlikley to be accepted as a valid reason for returning

i am medically trained afaik there isn't any maor interaction with most modern antidepressants so don't worry too much, see your gp or pharmacist if you are still worried

the main thing with tricyclics is they can make you drowsy too so thats not to major an interaction either, i certainly have patients on both

hth

MrsBartolozzi

[ QUOTE=geordie joe;44165732]Suppose the OP went into the chemist and asked for travel sickness tablets, and was given some, and told they would be suitable. Then got them home, opened them and found a leaflet saying "do not take these if you also take XXX tablets"

And the Op does take XXX tablets. The Op would have the right to return them because they were bought following bad advice. It should have been pointed out that if they took XXX tablets they would not be suitable.

In this case the OP would have a legal right to return them.




You are completely wrong, most shops let us return items because the law says they have no choice.

Actually most shops let us return the ill-fitting shirt or the poor choice of birthday gift as a courtesy, to provide a goodwill service to the customer. Unless the item is faulty there is no legal need to accept the return. (These tablets do not appear to be faulty, the OP didn't mention this. They did mention that they did not "fit" their needs but this does not mean the shop HAS to take it back.)

So there you go, take them back because they are not fit for the purpose they were bought for. That is the law, if they are not fit for the purpose then the shop must take them back.


If that were the case then a shop would be legally bound to take back the XBOX game I bought to keep me entertained for the whole of my holiday, which I completed in 5 hours. It does not fit the purpose for which it was bought and therefore using your logic I am entitled to a refund!
I suspect the law pertains to the purpose the item is intended for not whatever you might want to use it for.



I don't understand this, in your first sentence you say you can't take them back unless they are faulty, then go on to say the OP should have been asked if they would be fit for their purpose.


My intention here was to acknowledge that accepting the return was unlikely, but to appeal to the shop’s better side and see if they would make an exception. That’s all.
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As Martin says:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/consumer-rights-refunds-exchange
DO check suitability before buying

The 'As Described' part of the SadFart rules is crucial.

Imagine you buy speakers for your TV, take them home and they don't connect to your specific television.
If you've proof (take notes if possible) the store said “it'll work with your telly” then it's not as described, so you can return it. Yet if you didn't ask, and it's not in the literature, and the speakers still work if correctly plugged in, it's your problem - not the store's.



I read this as the onus was on the OP to ask about possible interactions between his/her current medications and the item they were buying. Do you read something else??