Major UK supermarket launches £129-a-month weight loss jab club
The treatment is on offer for £129 a month (Picture: Getty Images)
Morrisons has opened its own weight loss subscription, selling tirzepatide injections – also known as Mounjaro – to help shoppers shift extra pounds.
On its clinic website, the supermarket chain said the self-injectable pens can be used once a week to increase a user’s chance of sustained weight loss, amounted to around 20% of their bodyweight in a year.
The sign-up fee will rise to £159-a-month after the offer period expires.
Morrisons Clinic says its treatments are ‘designed with your long-term health as our priority’.
The website says users will have their past and current medical history assessed to ensure treatment is ‘safe’ and then monthly monitoring via its clinical team.
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It reads: ‘Our expert prescribing pharmacists are specially trained to review, consult and provide medications online. Your healthcare journey is in safe hands.’
Tirzepatide is an antidiabetic medication used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and for weight loss (Picture: Getty Images)
However, some shoppers have been left unimpressed by the supermarket’s offering, pointing out what they perceive as the chain’s hypocrisy in selling fatty and sugary food, and then charging customers triple figures to help them lose weight, The Sun reports.
One wrote on social media: ‘It’s genius really. The store sells you unhealthy grub that gets you fat, then wants vast sums of money to get you thin.’
Another added: ‘Is this a parody? One of the culprits, pushing highly-processed food, is offering a fat clinic?!’
Morrisons Clinic also sells a £26.99 treatment for premature ejaculation, assuring customers they will ‘finish last, not first’.
It also offers acne treatments at £36.99, acid reflux at £17.99, erectile dysfunction at £13 and migraine at £15.99.
Morrisons told said its weight management medications were ‘prescribed and dispensed responsibly’.
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