The first NACDS Marketplace Conference, held so many years ago in Minneapolis, attracted a handful of the curious and the committed, the workers and the wonderers, the doubters and the dutiful, all of whom traipsed to the northern tier of the United States to discern whether anything new was about t
Chain drug store operators and other mass market retailers have much to contemplate as they look to the future.
One of the overlooked events at the recently concluded Annual Meeting of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores was the departure, after a year of service, of Walgreens chief executive Greg Wasson as NACDS chairman.
A recent spate of studies about different aspects of health care, while embodying many contradictions, points to a period of ferment, the likes of which has not been seen since Medicare and Medicaid were put in place during the Johnson administration in the mid-1960s.
What should retailers do when the best-prepared plans still lead to the question, “Where are all the customers?” Here’s what to do: Prepare some new plans.
Once again, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Annual Meeting, the seminal event in the mass retailing calendar, is upon us. Some 2,000 retail and supplier executives are now gathered in Palm Beach, Fla.
Members of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores have many reasons to be satisfied as the organization marks its 80th year.
or perhaps because of it — there seem to be an inordinately high number of aspiring futurists out there. Industry pundits breathlessly trot out the latest trend for such concepts as shopper marketing, digital marketing, loyalty card analytics, big data and
It’s been said that if you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there. Change the word “road” to “aisle” and you have the retail world’s equivalent of the familiar adage.
These are stunning times for chain drug retailing in America. Events are tumbling willy-nilly one atop another, with the result that the nature of the entire industry is changing as dramatically and quickly as it has ever changed. More significantly, it will never again be what it once was.
Implementation of the major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) occurs less than nine months from now.
he resigned late last month to accept a job as chief executive officer of RadioShack —was certainly one of the stunning developments that have periodically punctuated chain drug retailing in recent years, an event made
The changes transforming health care delivery, in both Canada and the United States, are creating openings for community pharmacy operators to expand the scope of professional practice.
Earlier this month the brightest people in chain drug store retailing gathered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. They came to analyze the state of their businesses and, more specifically, the direction of chain drug retailing in America.
both directional and financial — translate into challenges and opportunities for chain pharmacy. Following the most recent November elections, our country has retained the same set of political players to address many of the same fiscal issues that continue to perplex the nation’s government. As a
Much has been made of the competition between CVS and Walgreens for supremacy in chain drug retailing and leadership in the health care community. And indeed there is little doubt that these two health care retailers are in a class by themselves when it comes to providing patient care.
