SECAUCUS, N.J. — Retail veteran Jason Reiser has joined The Vitamin Shoppe as chief operating officer. In the role, Reiser has overall day-to-day responsibility for operational execution — including store operations, merchandising, supply chain and information technology — and for leading those teams through implementing the company’s reinvention strategy. Reiser joins Vitamin Shoppe from Dollar
TORONTO — The Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada (Neighbourhood Pharmacies) is exhibiting a renewed sense of energy and optimism in its role as a national pharmacy trade association. Building on the momentum created at last month’s Neighbourhood Pharmacy Expo in Toronto, “Neighbourhood Pharmacies has never been stronger or more united in its mandate to serve
The second annual Amazon Prime Day was held this month and, despite early technical problems that slowed down the checkout process for some customers, it was another in a series of successes for the nation’s leading online merchant. The company reported that the event was the best day in Amazon.com’s 22-year history, with sales in
Chain drug store operators are unique among mass market retailers in many ways, none more dramatic than the separation of the pharmacy and front-end businesses. In fact, they are actually two separate businesses, neither overly dependent on the other for success. So it is that the success in pharmacy of a retailer like Walgreens Boots
CHAPTER 8: TOWARD A NEW MODEL OF COLLABORATION AND COMPETITION All new healthcare business and operating models must rapidly embrace technologies that are fundamentally collaborative; building ecosystems of value-enabling partnerships is both strategic and an operating imperative. The catch is that the nature of collaboration in this context also breaks new ground for many businesses
