Local pharmacies are losing customers: more than a third of pharmacies (34%) are experiencing a decline in the number of customers. At the same time, OTC and over-the-counter manufacturers continue to have an image problem with pharmacies. These findings from recent Bonsai pharmacy studies - and the question of how OTC manufacturers should react to them - have generated a broad response in the trade press.
Read moreOver 90 percent of online shoppers of OTC/over-the-counter products do not use their websites at all on the path to purchase. But 93 percent of OTC online shoppers use Google on their Path to Purchase (although only 24 percent report this in surveys). The trade press reports on the new meta-study by Bonsai Research on the actual behavior of OTC online shoppers.
Read moreJan Reuter, Influencer and YouTuber with his own pharmacy, calls himself (ironically) "Pill Instructor". On LinkedIn, he has taken on our new study "Bonsai OTCApotheken Außendienst Rating 2023". What he presents in terms of results and conclusions in several videos is pure utility value for pharmaceutical companies - opinionated and also amusing.
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