Sudden loss of grey-market sales adds to drop in natural health product sales

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Sudden loss of grey-market sales adds to drop in natural health product sales

By Steve Hart
Before COVID-19, Chinese students and holidaymakers to New Zealand would buy up large amounts of natural health products to send back home
Before COVID-19, Chinese students and holidaymakers to New Zealand would buy up large amounts of natural health products to send back home

Steve Hart takes a look at daigou shopping and how border closures have affected what was once a nice little earner for some pharmacies

But with no [Chinese] students and no tourists it is inevitable that it has had an effect Retail pharmacy favourites such as Comvita Manuka Honey