Accelerating front-end strategy is Gourlay’s goal
From one perspective, Alex Gourlay’s imminent move from Alliance Boots to Walgreen Co. will represent a sea change for someone who has spent 37 years working for the United Kingdom’s top drug chain.
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Total Store Expo signals new era
More than 5,700 retailers and suppliers descended on the Sands Expo and Convention Center here last month for the first National Association of Chain Drug Stores Total Store Expo.
Spencer named Kinney Drugs president
Kinney Drugs Inc. has elevated chief operating officer Jim Spencer to president. Executives say Spencer’s new role gives him more responsibility for the total customer experience and strategic growth of Kinney’s 98 drug stores in central and northern New York and Vermont.
Calls arise to defund health law
Congressional legislators challenging the White House budget are making the health care law a major point of contention. Some Republicans have vowed to force a government shutdown unless funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is stripped from the spending plan. “It isn’t working,” Texas Sen.
SDM updates beauty boutique
Continuing to enhance its upscale beauty care offering, Shoppers Drug Mart (SDM) has unveiled its beautyBOUTIQUE at the Toronto Eaton Centre.
Rexall, London Drugs build up Web presence
Rexall Pharma Plus and London Drugs have bolstered their online offerings with, respectively, a medical record site and two e-commerce fulfillment centers. Rexall’s newly launched MyRexall lets customers view and print their personal medication records at www.rexall.ca.
Pharmacy retailers launch annual flu shot campaigns
Retail pharmacies across the country are taking steps to help customers stave off illnesses in the 2013-2014 flu season. For example, flu shots are now available at all Walgreen Co. pharmacies and at Healthcare Clinics at select Walgreens and at Duane Reade pharmacies.
CVS Caremark opens high-tech mail order facility
CVS Caremark Corp. has opened a state-of-the-art mail service pharmacy and customer center in this Illinois community.
Petraeus to speak at NACDS Foundation dinner
Gen. David Petraeus, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former commander of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, will be the keynote speaker for the 2013 NACDS Foundation Dinner to be held here on December 3.
Pratt Award goes to H-E-B’s Wiesner
H-E-B senior director of privacy, pharmacy and governmental affairs Dennis Wiesner was given the Harold W. Pratt Award at this year’s Total Store Expo.
Products star in the TSE Showcase
Eleven products were chosen as the top new items at this year’s NACDS Total Store Expo. With 160 different products featured in the TSE Product Showcase, retailers were able to see all of the newest items in one place. After reviewing these products, the retailers chose such items as Pet Head Inc.’s
Rx chains start to gear up for ACA educational push
Walgreen Co. and CVS Caremark Corp. are conducting outreach campaigns to educate consumers about health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act. CVS Caremark’s effort will include in-store events, brochure displays and online information at www.cvs.com/insurance.
Obama team is focused on health care reform
The clock is ticking on implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), with less than two months to go until the October 1 deadline for state health insurance exchanges to be open for business.
Flum guides retail pharmacy at CVS Caremark
No one in 1997 would have predicted that Josh Flum would become one of the most important pharmacy executives in the country. That year he graduated from Yale Law School and started on a journey that took him from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where he served as
Take Care Clinics renamed by Walgreens
Healthcare Clinic is the new name for Walgreen Co.’s in-store clinics, replacing the Take Care Clinic name that has stood since the brand’s inception in 2004. A national rebranding for the chain’s more than 370 clinics is expected to be complete by the end of the month. Besides the changes that are
NEHI offers ideas on how to increase adherence
NEHI has issued a report highlighting what it terms six “priorities for action” to improve patient medication adherence. The report underlines the importance of increasing awareness of medication therapy management (MTM).