Dimensions (cm): 41 x 27

Boots Cash Chemists were extremely busy and prosperous at the end of the 20th century, judging by the number of their bottles found in Victorian dumps in both South Africa and the U.K.
Boots Cash Chemists instituted a new method for its customers to buy certain medicines. The company would let shoppers pick drugs off the shelves in the chemist and then pay for them at the till. Before then, all medicines were stored behind a counter and an assistant had to get what was requested. The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain objected and argued that under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1933, that was an unlawful practice. Under 18s needed to be supervised by a pharmacist at the point where "the sale is effected" when the product was one listed on the 1933 Act's schedule of poisons. The Society argued that displays of goods were an "offer" and when a shopper selected and put the drugs into their shopping basket, that was an "acceptance". Therefore because no pharmacist had supervised the transaction at this point, Boots was in breach of the Act. Boots argued that the sale was effected only at the till.

Bar Code: 10293