My Chemist

What My Chemist does

My Chemist was an Australian privately held pharmacy retailer that sold health, wellness, and beauty products to general consumers through a combination of physical retail stores and an owned e-commerce website. Its primary functional offering was consumer access to pharmacy and beauty merchandise, with a community loyalty program issuing redeemable loyalty points as a repeat-purchase incentive. The company employed approximately 144 staff and served the Australian domestic market as a single-country operator, with no disclosed technology stack, AI/ML capabilities, or proprietary platform architecture beyond a standard e-commerce storefront. No revenue figures, pricing model, or funding history were disclosed in the available source data.

As of June 26, 2025, the My Chemist website closed and the business was effectively dismantled. Selected physical store locations transitioned to operate under the Amcal+ brand, My Chemist loyalty point vouchers became redeemable at those Amcal+ stores, and online shopping was redirected to Chemist Warehouse with customer service inquiries routed to Chemist Warehouse's help centre. The company's operating status is marked as closed, and no parent company, ownership structure, or investor relationships were disclosed in the source material. From an investment standpoint, My Chemist no longer exists as a standalone operating entity; residual value, if any, resides in the transitioned storefronts and the loyalty liability that Amcal+ has assumed.

Name

My Chemist

Legal name

My Chemist

Website

https://mychemist.com.au

Company type

Private

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

My Chemist was an Australian privately held pharmacy retailer selling health, wellness, and beauty products to general consumers through physical stores and an e-commerce website, now closed as of June 26, 2025.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Retail Pharmacy

NAICS

Pharmacies and Drug Retailers (456110), Health and Personal Care Retailers (456)

SIC

Retail-Drug Stores And Proprietary Stores (5912)

akta.pro primary industry

Pharmacy-Led Health & Wellness Discount Retail (CRAEAHAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Health, Wellness & Pharmacy Online Retailers (CRAFADAG), Value Convenience with Pharmacy / Health & Wellness Counter (CRAEAJAE)

Keywords

• Community pharmacy retail
• Health and wellness products
• Beauty products retail
• Pharmacy loyalty program
• Over-the-counter medicines

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Distribution channels2 records

Core offering

My Chemist was an Australian community pharmacy retailer that sold health, wellness, and beauty products through a network of physical stores and an e-commerce website. The business was supported by a loyalty points program whose vouchers remain redeemable at participating Amcal+ locations following the closure of the My Chemist website on 26 June 2025.

Product overview

My Chemist operated as a single unified pharmacy retail offering, providing both online shopping and physical in-store retail services for health, wellness, and beauty products. As of 26th June 2025, the My Chemist website has closed, with selected store locations transitioning to Amcal+ branding and online operations migrating to Chemist Warehouse. The company also maintained a loyalty points program that can be redeemed at participating Amcal+ stores.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• My Chemist pharmacy retail (health, wellness and beauty products)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Amcal+coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 26 June 2025Select My Chemist locations transitioned to Amcal+ stores following the closure notice. Customers can continue redeeming their My Chemist loyalty point vouchers at these Amcal+ locations.
• Chemist WarehousecoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 26 June 2025Following My Chemist website closure on June 26, 2025, online shopping services redirected to Chemist Warehouse. Customer service inquiries also directed to Chemist Warehouse help centre.

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Discount Drug Stores: Australian value-positioned pharmacy chain offering prescription medicines alongside health and beauty products. Closely comparable to My Chemist in its discount/value pharmacy orientation and consumer health and beauty mix.
• Amcal: National Australian pharmacy banner operating community pharmacies across the country. Amcal is directly comparable to My Chemist as a pharmacy retailer, and has absorbed selected My Chemist physical locations under the Amcal+ banner.
• Guardian Pharmacy: Australian pharmacy banner operated by independent pharmacy owners. Comparable to My Chemist as a national pharmacy retail competitor serving consumer health, wellness, and beauty needs.
• Priceline Pharmacy: Australian pharmacy chain combining prescription dispensing with health, beauty, and wellness merchandise. Priceline is directly comparable to My Chemist given its overlapping health-and-beauty mass-market positioning and multi-store Australian footprint.
• Blooms The Chemist: Australian pharmacy group operating physical stores across regional and metropolitan areas. Comparable to My Chemist as a multi-store Australian pharmacy retailer with combined prescription and front-of-store health/beauty offerings.
• Chemist Warehouse: Australia's largest discount pharmacy retailer operating physical stores and a major e-commerce platform. Chemist Warehouse is directly comparable to My Chemist as a pharmacy and health/beauty retailer, and is now the direct recipient of My Chemist's online customer base.
• TerryWhite Chemmart: National Australian pharmacy banner with a focus on professional pharmacy services alongside health, beauty, and wellness ranges. Comparable to My Chemist as a multi-store Australian pharmacy retailer serving consumer health and beauty needs.

Emerging players

• Pharmacy Online: Australia-based online pharmacy retailer offering health, beauty, and wellness products via e-commerce. Comparable to My Chemist's online channel given the direct overlap in health-and-beauty online pharmacy merchandising.

Broad incumbents

• Woolworths Pharmacy: Pharmacy departments inside major Australian supermarket chain Woolworths. Comparable to My Chemist as a pharmacy channel serving Australian consumers, though its pharmacy offering is part of a much broader grocery retail portfolio.
• Coles Pharmacy: Pharmacy outlets co-located within major Australian supermarket chain Coles. Comparable to My Chemist as a pharmacy retailer serving Australian health and personal care needs, but operates as part of a broader grocery retail business.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/my-chemist

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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