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[Dorothy]

I went into Boots today to top up my supply of Vagisil.  It's always been in the 'feminine hygiene' section before, or occasionally in with the other washes & creams like E45.  Today, I hunted high & low for it & started to stress that they'd stopped supplying it.  When I asked the store assistant if they still stocked it, she pointed me to the 'family planning & pregnancy' section!!!  There was the Vagisil range, sandwiched in between pregnancy testing kits and vitamin supplements for women who are trying to conceive.

Bearing in mind a lot of women who use these products are unable to have children, I felt it was really insensitive to have moved them to that part of the shop.  I also wondered how women who have had children and are now going through meno would feel being spotted browsing the 'family planning' section.  I was wondering about pointing this out to the lady, but didn't feel like explaining to a total stranger that I was going through early meno.  I was also just wanting to get the stuff & leave as fast as possible before anyone I knew saw me in that section & started rumours. 

Am I just having an extra-sensitive day, or does anyone else think it's a bit tactless?

[CLKD]

I totally agree: tactless.  I feel a letter to the Managing Director coming on !

It's hardly family planning section ………. perhaps we should arrive en masse at the doors and move the lot to where it ought to be? 

[Dorothy]

Yay!  The Menopause Matters Protest Group in action    

Perhaps we could all lie down in the road outside our local Boots & refuse to move until THEY move the Vagisil 

[CLKD]