NACDS remains the industry’s hub
Chain drug retailing has changed dramatically in the first decade of the 21st century. Nowhere have those changes been more evident than in the character and content of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.
Opinion
Community pharmacy girds for an eventful year
The new year promises to be pivotal for retail pharmacy, with internal and external factors coalescing to shape the profession’s future direction.
Walgreens’ makeover a game-changing event
The year that just ended has seen the Walgreen Co. transform itself more suddenly, dramatically and, to some observers, inexplicably than any mass retailer in the industry’s annals. Go back to the last months of 2007. Walgreens was hardly a focus of undue industry attention.
NACDS is hub of chain drug industry
For four days at the beginning of December, NACDS brought the chain drug industry briefly to life, by the simple expedient of gathering the retailer and supplier communities together in New York City for a series of business and social events.
What science-based guidelines mean for Rx
Retail pharmacy operators and other health care providers recently were given a preview of the difficulties involved in implementing the findings of comparative effectiveness research, a science-based approach to evaluating the benefits and potential dangers of alternative forms of diagnosis and tre
Chain drug retailing’s events of the year
With 2009 winding down, the time has come to list the most memorable events of the year in chain drug retailing. Herewith, seven such events: • The remaking of Walgreens.
Coalition shines light on medication adherence
The day before the Senate leadership unveiled an $848 billion bill that will be the focal point of the next phase of the health care reform debate, all of the members of Congress received a timely reminder about the importance of including measures to improve medication compliance in whatever legisl
Retail pharmacy starts to assert itself
The most significant development in chain drug retailing this year has been its willingness, finally, to begin to unleash the power of the pharmacist and the pharmacy that supports him.
Store experience reimagined by Duane Reade
Duane Reade, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2010, is a fixture on the retail scene in New York City.
It’s not too early to think about NACDS Marketplace
The first registration materials for the 2010 National Association of Chain Drug Stores Annual Meeting came in the mail last week.
Rx’s role in health care reform
Tom Ryan brings his customary concentration of thought and clarity of purpose to the issue of health care reform in an op-ed piece that recently appeared in The Washington Times.
CVS, Walgreens should seize moment
CVS Caremark and Walgreens both opened their 7,000th drug store earlier this fall, within a week of each other. CVS’ milestone store opened in a suburb of St. Paul, while Walgreens’ landmark unveiling took place in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Competing imperatives shape pharmacy’s future
The commoditization of community pharmacy has come in for a good deal of criticism in recent years.
Promotion gives CVS’ Bloom his due
Earlier this month, Mike Bloom, CVS’ chief merchant, got a promotion.
There’s plenty of reason to be bullish about Rx
Everywhere community pharmacy operators turn these days there seems to be a new challenge. Over the weekend, chain drug stores and other prescription drug providers began to feel the fallout from the reduction in average wholesale prices mandated by the settlement of a class-action lawsuit.
Outsiders bring new thinking to industry
Chain drug retailing is changing more quickly and more dramatically than at any time in recent memory.