Bartell Drugs this month announced the promotion of Steven Frestedt to vice president of marketing. Frestedt had been the company’s marketing director. He also spent 20 years with advertising agencies in Seattle and Los Angeles.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (WBA) announced that it has named Kimberly Scardino as its new senior vice president, global controller and chief accounting officer, effective August 3. Scardino joined WBA from American Express Co.
CVS Health Research Institute experts have urged cardiologists to consider changing their treatment guidelines for patients with high cholesterol as a new class of high-cost medications arrives on the market.
The Affordable Care Act has reduced the number of Americans without health insurance by 15.8 million, or one-third, since 2013, new government data shows. In the first quarter of this year there were 29 million uninsured people, the National Center for Health Statistics said this month.
Growth of the U.S. over-the-counter medications market has been primarily driven by prescription-to-OTC switches And that expansion is likely to continue. Due to an increasingly favorable regulatory environment, Kline & Co.
Rite Aid Corp. announced that all of the company’s nearly 4,600 stores nationwide will accept mobile payments, including Apple Pay and Google Wallet. The drug chain began accepting Apple Pay and Google Wallet payments as of August 15.
Walgreens and Rite Aid have launched their annual flu shot campaigns, providing a range of vaccine options and making it easy to visit the pharmacy and get vaccinated.
John Balch was named 2015 Medicine Shoppe Franchisee of the Year during Cardinal Health Inc.’s annual Retail Business Conference (RBC). Balch, based in Cumberland, Md.
At ThoughtSpot 2015, Good Neighbor Pharmacy’s annual trade show and conference, AmerisourceBergen announced a new set of innovations it said will strengthen its Pharmacy Services Administration Organization and help independent pharmacies endure the industry’s most pressing challenges.
Dollar General Corp. announced that James Thorpe has rejoined the company as executive vice president and chief merchandising officer. Thorpe had retired from the company in 2012 after serving for six years as senior vice president and general merchandising manager.
Chain Drug Review’s sister publication, MMR, annually publishes a study of the 100 largest grocery, drug and discount store markets, ranking the markets in descending order by the market share of the leading retailers. This year’s study is included in MMR’s latest issue, dated August 17.
Results from Amazon’s Prime Day promotion last month raise some interesting questions for all retailers that compete with the e-commerce giant, a group that has come to include chain drug stores, other mass marketers and practically any seller of consumer goods.
Despite all of the talk of big data and predictive analytics, and the maturity of customer loyalty programs, many food, drug and mass retailers continue to rely primarily on category managers to make critical merchandising decisions.
Taxonomy is a behind-the-scenes organization system that is designed to get your customers from point A to point B on your website with as few impediments as possible. It’s the road that leads your customers to their final destination and, in the best-case scenario, a purchase.
In our increasingly mobile world, the changes in consumer behavior include shifts in their shopping habits, from how people first learn about consumer packaged goods to how they follow the path to purchase. Mobile advertising can be a powerful tool at every step.
Camber Pharmaceuticals Inc. has launched entecavir tablets, an antiviral medication. Camber said Friday that its entecavir product is available in 30- and 90-count bottle for the 0.5-mg strength and in 30-count bottles for the 1-mg dosage.
