Good for them. But I find it hard to take seriously their claim that they are committed to improving public health when their shelves are stuffed with homeopathic products - more all the time. Pushing this fake medicine is a direct threat to health. It preys upon the naive and poorly educated, who will waste their money on this quackery rather than seeking effective treatment for their medical problems.
I would like to agree, but most of the homeopathic remedy consumers I know are surprisingly crafty. If you ask them if they believe that it works, they will say yes. But if a serious illness comes up, they will immediately switch to real medical treatment.
Put differently, they seem to have an intuitive understanding to only use placebos for illnesses that are well served by placebos. They have no rational understanding of that, of course. But they do get a lot more benefits from placebos than I do, so I can't say they're entirely wrong.
I've observed similar behavior in regard to religion, etc. But it's generally unsound to extrapolate from the people we happen to know to whole populations (not that I have any actual data about who uses homeopathic medicines and how). What concerns me is that the way the stuff is shelved and advertised looks like it would lead to an uncritical person with, say, flu symptoms to just grab one of these boxes off the shelf.
Boots in the UK have homeopathy on the same shelf as herbal remedies. They ignore my gentle polite requests for them to place some distance between items that have active ingredients and items that have no active ingredient.
