CVS/pharmacy said its ExtraCare loyalty card program delivered more savings to customers in 2009 and expanded its user base. The drug store chain, operated by CVS Caremark Corp., said Tuesday that ExtraCare cardholders received a total of more than $1.9 billion in savings and rewards during 2009.
Steve Anderson, president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, urged students to become pharmacy advocates to help advance the profession in an address at the Ohio Northern University Rudolph H. Raabe College of Pharmacy.
L’Oréal USA’s SoftSheen-Carson division is commemorating its 10th anniversary with a yearlong celebration slated to start in February in conjunction with Black History Month.
Factor Nutrition Labs, a leading manufacturer and marketer of brain support supplements, is slated to expand its product roster and broaden its media efforts. Plans call for Factor’s complete line of seven supplements to be extended with four additional products by the end of this year.
Walgreen Co. has been awarded accreditation as a specialty pharmacy provider from URAC.
David Casey has been named vice president and diversity officer at CVS Caremark Corp. In the position, Casey will lead the drug store and pharmacy benefit management company’s efforts related to strategic diversity management.
Democrats in the House and the Senate are now working to reconcile their visions of health care reform legislation, hoping to pass a final bill before President Obama’s State of the Union address. As expected, the Senate passed its version of the bill in a 60-39 party-line vote on Christmas Eve.
A new study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) provides support for community pharmacy’s efforts to reform Medicaid reimbursement rates. The study, requested by Sen. Charles Grassley (R.
Citing recent reductions in Medicaid reimbursement rates, Bartell Drugs has said it will stop filling Medicaid prescriptions at 15 of its 57 stores, effective February 1.
Navarro Discount Pharmacies has named Steve Kaczynski as its new chief executive officer. He succeeds Marcio Cabrera, who filled the role on an interim basis while serving as managing director of MBF Healthcare Partners, which owns the 28-store Navarro chain.
Community pharmacies across the country began offering H1N1 vaccines late last month after state health agencies lifted priority group restrictions on the inoculations.
In another round of executive changes at Walgreen Co., Mike Arnoult has been appointed vice president of Customer-Centric Retailing (CCR), the retailer’s store optimization initiative. As the head of CCR, Arnoult replaces Chong Bang, who left in December to join Shoppers Drug Mart.
Despite the lingering recession, the chain drug industry finished 2009 with solid gains in revenue. Overall drug store chain sales for the year rose 7.4% to $226.11 billion, while same-store sales grew 3.4%, according to research by Racher Press, publisher of Chain Drug Review.
Rite Aid Corp. has set out to make shopping its stores fun, and possibly profitable, by launching a contest promotion based on a classic board game. Called Rite Aid The Game of Life, and based on the Hasbro Inc. game, the promotion gives customers the chance to win $5 million in
Rite Aid Corp. has appointed Bryan Shirtliff senior vice president of business development, a new position at the company.
Chain drug retailing has changed dramatically in the first decade of the 21st century. Nowhere have those changes been more evident than in the character and content of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.
