Kinney Drugs vice president of marketing Jim Wuest is set to retire at the end of the year, at which time vice president of merchandising Rick Cognetti will be promoted to vice president of marketing and merchandising.
Jean Coutu Group Inc. has agreed to acquire a 50% share of Le Groupe Medicus Inc., a company that specializes in orthotics and prosthetic devices. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Rite Aid Corp. stores have become the exclusive carriers of Forever Fit, a new line of home fitness products developed by fitness expert Denise Austin.
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has moved its corporate office. The trade association relocated its headquarters on December 3 to 1776 Wilson Blvd., Suite 200, in Arlington, Va. All office and staff telephone and fax numbers have remained the same.
Rebecca Chater has joined pharmacy alliance RxAlly as vice president of health outcomes. In the new role, Chater will provide leadership and clinical management of RxAlly solutions as well as integrate business development with clinical staff and operations.
Canadian consumer confidence, at 92, is now just below the 94 level scored at the end of the second half of 2007 and again in the first quarter of this year.
The recent legislative and policy changes empowering Canadian pharmacists to offer new patient services and interventions represent challenge as well as opportunity for community pharmacy, said Justin Bates, vice president of Pharmacy Affairs for the Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores (CACDS)
If you’re within a thousand miles of Chicago, make the journey to the Windy City and drop in on the new, 30,000-square-foot (25,000-square-foot selling) Walgreens drug store in the city’s Bucktown/Wicker Park neighborhood.
Walgreens has received a lot of well-deserved attention related to the opening of its latest flagship stores, in Hollywood, Calif.
A federal appeals court has reversed a decision earlier this year to suspend a 10% reimbursement cut in Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program. The California Pharmacists Association (CPhA) said late Thursday that the U.S.
CVS Caremark Corp. plans to buy 19 Medicine Chest drug stores in Texas later this month. CVS said Friday that under the deal, CVS/pharmacy will operate nine of the acquired locations and relocate 10 other Medicine Chest pharmacies into nearby CVS/pharmacy stores.
Kroger Co. pharmacies have launched a program in which diabetes patients with private health insurance can get a $4 co-payment on Kroger Premium blood glucose test strips.
SoloHealth reported that its SoloHealth Station health and wellness kiosk has seen consumer engagement surge over 200% since late summer. The company said Thursday that to date nearly 5 million consumers have interacted with the health screening kiosk, up from 2.5 million in late August.
LegitScript has shut down MyRxCash.com, an Internet pharmacy affiliate marketing portal that it said was connected to hundreds of websites flagged by drug safety regulators as selling unregulated prescription drugs without a prescription.
Chain drug stores are on the leading edge in using loyalty cards to win and keep pharmacy customers, yet customer awareness of such programs could be greater, a study by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals reveals.
Elite Pharmaceuticals Inc. has shored up its supply of phentermine active ingredient for the next year. The company said Thursday that it has in place an agreement with the its sole supplier of the active pharmaceutical ingredient for its product lines that include phentermine HCl tablets (37.
