What are you feeling tonight, honey — Italian, Chinese or emergency contraception?
A Lower East Side bodega presents a practical solution for New York
ladies intent on preventing unwanted pregnancy but unwilling to leave
the comfort of their own home: Seamless-delivered Plan B.
The over-the-counter, high-octane birth control — first spotted on Corner Grocer’s delivery menu by eagle-eyed Redditors and reported by DNAInfo this week — is improbably nestled into the menu under “New Products Added Recently,” which also include Halo Top ice cream (250 calories a pint!), quesadillas and ginger and wheatgrass booster shots.
Its description reads “Emergency Contraceptive Reduces Chance of
Pregnancy after Unprotected Sex - Not for Regular Birth Control.”
The one catch, aside from living outside the bodega’s delivery radius:
high markup. The 140 Orchard St. shop sells Plan B One-Step for $76.99 —
a more than 50% markup from its Planned Parenthood-estimated average
cost of $40-$50. Walgreens/Duane Reade, for example, sells it for
$49.99.
Corner Grocer has been shilling the pill about three or four months, an
employee said when reached by the Daily News on Friday, and offers it
in-store for $69.99.
“I bet they make more from that than all their other products,” a Reddit user commented.
The Plan B One-Step tablet — effective up to 72 hours after your little
accident — uses a high dose of levonorgestrel, a hormone used in
several birth control methods, to lessen your chance of becoming
pregnant. The manufacturer, echoing the bodega’s sage advice on
Seamless, stresses that it’s not an effective form of regular birth
control.
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