St. Louis residents can now find a morning-after pill on convenience store shelves next to the condoms.
California-based Cadence OTC began selling its over-the-counter emergency contraceptives, The Morning After Pill, in convenience stores and gas stations in Missouri this year. Its products are available in 24 locations statewide and 30 in the St. Louis area including Illinois.
“Those convenience stores and gas stations tend to be in regular neighborhoods. They’re open later. They’re community bound,” said Kate Voyten, vice president of commercial operations at Cadence OTC. “So we were looking for a place to offer a solution that wasn’t available today.”…