Pharmacies Smoked explained on Wednesday why it did not join the compensation agreement announced by the National Consumer Service (Sernac) together from the Cruz Verde and Salcobrand pharmacies.
According to Ahumada, through a statement, they say they decided “not to adhere to the out-of-court agreement that the agency is pushing with the three chains.”
They explain this because “the proposed agreement assigned the same legal status to the three companies, uncovering the radically different role that Smoked Pharmacies has played throughout the judicial process since the facts that gave rise to the infringement were discovered.”
“We regret that we cannot join the agreement that the National Consumer Service is pushing to close this painful wound in the history of the industry, but we cannot accept that the cost of this negotiation is to ignore all the reparative actions that the company took immediately after having consteend a conciliatory agreement with the FNE, which certainly reflect from the outing a position totally opposite to that of our competition” Add.
“As a member of the Walgreens Boots Alliance group, a world leader in Health and Welfare, which entered the property of Smoked Pharmacies 5 years after the case occurred, having completed all court proceedings and materialized a voluntary compensation plan, we do not think it is reasonable that the measures taken to repair the fault are ignored,” they explain.
“Ahumada Pharmacies maintains its unrestricted commitment to free competition in Chile and with the firm will to become the Pharmacy of Chile,” they conclude.
Compensation announced by sernac
The National Consumer Service (Sernac) announced that the Cruz Verde and Salcobrand pharmacies must compensate 53,000 consumers for the so-called “Collusion of Pharmacies”, of which Ahumada also participated.
The aforementioned pharmacies must pay $22,000 to each affected customer, considering that the total disbursement for the two pharmacy chains is $1.387 million.
Sernac enabled the website www.micompensacion.cl, where people will be able to check if they are beneficiaries. If they do, they must fill out a form.
Who gets this compensation? They must be over 18 years of age and with an identity card and most importantly, having acquired between December 2007 and March 2008 one of the 26 medicines of the 6 categories determined by the case that correspond to treat a chronic or serious disease. That they should be consumed frequently and that there are no other alternatives.
The list of medicines is as follows:
