Trying to buy painkillers

[Sterristripoff]

DP and DS have a stinking cold so I was sent to the local shop to buy painkillers this afternoon. Tried to buy ibuprofen, calpol and lemsip. I was told by the lady on the checkout that store policy was to limit to 2 packs of painkillers per customer. So I left the lemsip and paid for my items.

Phoned DP on the way home who said he really needed the lemsip and asked if I could go back to buy some.

I went back into the store paid at a different checkout. The girl on the first checkout saw me and started talking about how what I had done was illegal and she would have to inform the manager.

Now I’m worried. I normally would have just gone into the pharmacy but it was closed today and DP is being a total baby about his cold.

I was just worried because she was so aggressive in her statement that it was against the law and that her manager would be looking into it. I thought they might trace my card details or something. Stupid I know. I’m not a natural rule breaker!

Im so glad I can buy 500 Acetaminophen at a time. What a ridiculous law

500 Acetaminophen at at time?

www.healthline.com/health/acetaminophen-overdose

Leaannb you don't need to take hundreds of paracetamol to die, it can happen with not too many tablets alongside severe liver damage.

The restrictions on paracetamol sales in supermarkets are their own rules I believe. The max amount of paracetamol you can buy in a pharmacy is 100, but as they comes in packs of 32, the max you can accurately buy is 96. I don't think the law is different in supermarkets (supermarket paracetamol is general sale list I believe) but someone may correct me on that one.

She was like "What am I going to do? Squirt the gel into my mouth?"
The ibuprofen still gets into your body, otherwise what would be the point of the product. Just because it's not ingested doesnt mean it's not a painkiller!

OP there are no laws against buying paracetamol to do with coronavirus (if that's what they claimed).
The shop possibly could be in trouble for selling more than 2 packs of painkillers to one customer but I doubt the manager is going to deliberately report his own staff for doing so. You wont get in any trouble.

I don't think the law is different in supermarkets (supermarket paracetamol is general sale list I believe) but someone may correct me on that one.

It's not a specific law but the MHRA best practice is 'no more than two packs [of painkillers] in any one transaction' and no multi-buy deals. The legal limit on sales is pack sizes of 16 off the shelf and 32 over the counter, no more than 100 tablets (for paracetamol and aspirin):
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/824548/Appendix_4_-_Blue_Guide.pdf

i found that law a bit dim,
when you have a cold the last thing you want to do is to go to the shops every 2 days to buy lempsip when you should be in bed resting and also not spreading germs on each visit to the shops. and when the whole family is ill you have a problem ie the shops wont sell calpol, lempsip sachet and cold and flu tablets in one transaction.

Last summer they wouldn’t even let me buy 3 packets of hay fever tablets in one go- different types too!

Go to.your pharmacy and get it there supervised by a pharmacist.

Our store policy is 2 packs (doesn't matter if its paracetamol, ibuprofen or adult/child strength) and if someone tried to buy more as a second transaction they will be refused (if someone notices, they usually do). Its not law but falls under challenge 25/company policy. She was just doing her job although to say its against the law is wrong

You can only buy 2 packets of paracetamol at a time, the ibuprofen is not irrelevant, if you check on the tesco website it will only let you buy 2 packets total.