Tesco will offer fierce competition by selling Viagra at £52 for eight of the blue tablets

It is the first supermarket to start selling the anti-impotence drug Viagra from next Monday and will be available at 300 Tesco in-store pharmacies across the country.

Following similar rules to those operated for over-the-counter sales in Boots, customers will simply be able to put a packet of Viagra in their shopping basket and go through a till.

Tesco pharmacists have already been trained to help the men potentially eligible to buy Genuine Viagra aged 40 to 65, to complete a questionnaire and undergo blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol tests. If these tests show they are suitable, the men will be offered Viagra.

Those with abnormal glucose, cholesterol or blood pressure may be refused legitimate Viagra and referred back to their GPs.

Shona Scott, Tesco’s commercial manager for pharmacy services, said: ‘Tesco’s will be the cheapest service in the country for those who don’t have a private prescription to buy Genuine Viagra from their GP.

At the moment only Boots offer a similar service to buy authentic Viagra – for which they charge £55 for just four tablets. A Tesco source said a special training course had prepared pharmacists for different types of customers to buy real Viagra.

One scenario saw an older man who was very nervous and couldn’t get his words out,’ the source said. Others involved a man coming in and sitting down confidently and discussing his problem openly using slang terms to buy official Viagra.

When Boots first began testing over-the-counter sales a year ago, hundreds of men travelled many miles to buy Viagra. It is thought that many were simply too embarrassed to ask their doctor for a prescription to buy Viagra.

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