Medicine Shoppe International has become the latest pharmacy retailer to drop tobacco products. The Cardinal Health Inc. pharmacy franchise said Monday that nearly all Medicine Shoppe and Medicap Pharmacy franchisees have committed to not sell tobacco or tobacco-related products.
Rite Aid Corp. has brought RediClinic into a new market with plans to open 11 retail clinics inside its stores in the greater Seattle area.
For Care Pharmacies, 2014 was a year of impressive top-line growth while the company continued to focus on infrastructure improvement with a number of technology initiatives. Sales for the year soared 26.6% to $463.
Rite Aid Corp. has expanded its wellness+ loyalty program with the chainwide rollout of Plenti, the coalition rewards program that the drug chain joined earlier this year.
Citing a strong performance by its pharmacy benefit management business, CVS Health posted a double-digit sales gain for the first quarter, with adjusted earnings topping Wall Street’s projections. CVS said Friday that net sales for the three months ended March 31 totaled $36.33 billion, up 11.
Rite Aid Corp. saw comparable-store sales rise in April despite a negative impact from the timing of this year’s Easter holiday.
Brian Unmacht has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Bartell Drugs, succeeding longtime CEO George Bartell as the head of the 125-year-old, family-owned drug chain.
Former Walgreen Co. president and chief executive officer Greg Wasson received the Sheldon W. Fantle Lifetime Achievement Award, the chain drug industry’s top honor, from the National Association of Chain Drug Stores last night at the NACDS Annual Meeting.
Although Randy Edeker is a relative newcomer to the National Association of Chain Drug Stores board of directors, he has already had an impact on the organization, one that will increase significantly this week when he becomes NACDS chairman.
Drug chains are leveraging their strengths of accessibility and convenience as they extend their core prescription drug business further into the health care realm and diversify their front-end mix.
An apt symbol for what Steve Anderson’s leadership has meant to the National Association of Chain Drug Stores is certainly RxImpact Day.
Last year brought dramatic expansion for Lewis Drug, as it acquired 12 stores in three states. The pickups brought the chain’s store count at the start of 2015 to 46, and more purchases are in the works. In the first half of 2014 the retailer bought a half-dozen independent outlets across
Through its ability to forge solid relationships with shoppers, both those in the pharmacy and those at the front end, the Jean Coutu Group has been able to retain loyal customers as well as attract new clientele, according to president and chief executive officer François Coutu.
Fruth Pharmacy is pursuing a number of key objectives to evolve its business in both the pharmacy and front end for this year and beyond, according to chairman and president Lynne Fruth.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has made a bid to acquire Mylan N.V. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $40 billion.
Sears Holdings Corp. has expanded its Shop Your Way loyalty program to offer pharmacy rewards at Kmart.
