Three challenges for the industry in 2023
No one knows for certain what the new year will bring for chain pharmacy operators.
Opinion
Retailers need to promote ‘food as medicine’ concept
While it may be difficult to imagine, shoppers are becoming even more health- and nutrition-conscious than they already are.
The common goals of health care providers and retailers
There’s never been a better time for health care leaders to think outside the [big] box. According to consulting firm McKinsey, health care providers are experiencing a confluence of forces driving a significant move from inpatient care to: • Distributed settings of care.
Self-care is playing a major role in retail’s future
which inspires consumers to embrace proactive life choices through investment in accessible wellness and better-for-you methods —
Retailers looking at new health care solutions
Has anyone in the chain drug retailing community visited the new Wegmans in Brooklyn? Has anyone been to Dallas, Ga.
NCPA aims to change Rx payment model
This space in the last issue of Chain Drug Review was devoted to the alarming results of a survey conducted by the National Community Pharmacists Association that show 58% of independent drug store owners think it is either somewhat or very likely that continued downward pressure on pharmacy reimbur
New shifts in health care providing opportunities
The phrase “inflection point” is overused, but there is no other way to describe where we have arrived in the consumer health care market in 2019, which is why Nicholas Hall, founder, executive chairman and creative solutions director of the Nicholas Hall Group of Cos.
Innovative ingredients are hitting the mainstream market
elderberry, coconut oil, charcoal, melatonin and CBD. In Europe, elderberry has been used for centuries, but in the U.S. it’s been slower to gain traction, partly due to the virus that nearly decimated the
Walmart ‘experiment’ is the store of the year
The mass retailing community is abuzz over Walmart’s most recent initiative, the opening earlier this fall of an innovative health care facility in the small Georgia town of Dallas, northwest of Atlanta.
The real life threat of ‘phantom’ DIR fees
The nation’s independent pharmacies are under severe stress and, unless the economic conditions in which they operate change dramatically, many of them could begin to disappear from the scene.
The cloud of opioid abuse will not be permanent
Some considerable time has passed since the retail and wholesale drug store business has found itself on the wrong side of the headlines, allegedly the perpetrator of offenses it usually defends against or, at the least, is ignorant of.
Patients-Turned-Shoppers Have to Be Recognized and Enabled
moderated by Chain Drug Review during the most recent NACDS Total Store Expo — that included leaders from across the industry representing chains, wholesalers, pharma and solution providers. It was a thoughtful and far-reaching exchange on a number of important topics, and we spent
NACDS’ evolution into a major retail influencer
Among the retail trade organizations, one association has emerged as the driving force of the industry it serves, the catalyst for inclusion, and the prime determinator of the directions mass retailing embarks on and the success the industry is achieving in taking stances and making lasting impressi
Value exceeds savings in Sam’s program
Anyone who had doubts about the depth of Walmart’s commitment to playing a bigger part in the nation’s health care system received a needed corrective in recent weeks as the company unveiled a series of initiatives designed to strengthen its impact in a sector that accounts for almost 20% of the U.