There’s no lack of challenges for mass retailers
Chain drug store operators and other mass market retailers have much to contemplate as they look to the future.
Opinion
Wasson caps a year of achievement
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.
Fluid state of health care opens way for Rx
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.
Active deal tactics pack a punch
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.
NACDS Annual Meeting is the place to be
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.
Anderson makes NACDS work for members
Members of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores have many reasons to be satisfied as the organization marks its 80th year.
Understanding the deal-sensitive O-T-C consumer
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
Challenge of navigating overcrowded store shelves
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.
Nature of industry changing drastically
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.
ACA gives retail Rx an opportunity to step up
Implementation of the major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) occurs less than nine months from now.
Putting Magnacca’s move in context
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
Rexall grasps community pharmacy’s potential
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.
Regional Chain Conference undervalued
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.
Advancing Rx care in a precarious policy landscape
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
CVS, Walgreens set new standard in Rx
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.
Some things to look for – or not – in 2013
and the impact they may begin to exert in 2013. • The Walgreens-Alliance Boots alliance. Walgreens’