Drug store concept originated in Japan , the Japanese drug store market is the world ‘s fastest growing and largest markets. In 2012 the number of Japanese domestic drug store outlets add to the 17,144 sales volume throughout the cosmeceutical industry nearly 6 trillion yen. Japanese mature cosmeceutical industries to Chinese cosmetics market has some reference . If the consumer population according to the translation unit , the drug store industry in China as well as a great space for development, drug and cosmetic industry could reach as much as 6.3 billion yuan .
A conventional Japanese drug store , contains generic drugs , groceries and cosmetics three major categories . Where the highest proportion of drugs , about 32 percent , followed by cosmetics and grocery products, the proportion of the latter two coefficients is similar. To cope with this kind of product structure , the Japanese drug store usually equipped with a clear division of labor in-store employees. Pharmacists have a professional qualification of personnel and selling generic drugs , dietary nutritionists, health and beauty care consultant. An average daily traffic of about 500 stores , a customer visiting the store period is about nine days or so. In Japan, the drug store traffic is very impressive, so the entire drug store industry in order to achieve such a large scale .
Many Chinese pharmacy managers to Japan to study the drug store to visit , hoping to learn from the Japanese drug store mature management system and operation mode .
Japanese drug store industry to achieve the scale of today , five or six years of development experience . Although the fifties and sixties of the 20th century , Japan has been formed drugstore , but at that time the development of struggling , under pressure from various aspects . The development was officially started in 1985 , Japan’s domestic drug store started showing the scale of the development.
Drugstore is produced according to pharmaceutical standards cosmetic effect with certain drugs . Of course, Japan is not completely drug store selling cosmetics , but also for the cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and daily three categories. Chinese drug store concept has not yet been written formal specification Ordinance, but cosmeceutical industry has taken the lead to develop.