December 1, 2017 by Bill Schiffner
Adam Holyk, Alex Gourlay, At the Corner of Happy and Healthy, Charles R. Walgreen Sr., new Walgreens branding campaign, Trusted since 1901, Walgreens, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Business, Featured Articles, Issue 12-11-2017, Leading Headlines, News, Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — As part of a brand repositioning, Walgreens is changing its tagline to “Trusted Since 1901” to emphasize its long heritage of serving customers. Walgreens said Friday that the new slogan, which will replace “At the Corner of Happy and Healthy,” will make its debut in a 30-second television commercial that will air
November 20, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, Richard Ashworth, Walgreens, Walgreens Boots Alliance
2017, Issue 11-20-2017, Issues, News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (WBA) has promoted Richard Ashworth to president of operations at Walgreens, a newly created position. With the move, Ashworth adds responsibilities in the health care commercial, IT and supply chain areas at Walgreens in addition to the duties in his previous position as president of pharmacy and retail
November 6, 2017 by Geoff Walden and Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, Anthem, CVS Caremark PBM, CVS Pharmacy, Express Scripts, Helena Foulkes, IngenioRx, Jon Roberts, Joseph Swedish, Larry Merlo, performance pharmacy network, pharmacy benefit management, Walgreens
2017, Issue 11-06-2017, Issues, News
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health has announced two major agreements to boost pharmacy benefit management services. The company late last month introduced a 30,000-store performance-based pharmacy network anchored by CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens designed to deliver savings and improved clinical outcomes for CVS Caremark PBM members. That followed the company’s announcement of a five-year deal
November 1, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, Richard Ashworth, Walgreens, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Business, Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has promoted Richard Ashworth to president of operations at Walgreens, a newly created position. WBA said Wednesday that Ashworth assumes the new role effective immediately. With the move, he adds responsibilities in the health care commercial, IT and supply chain areas at Walgreens in addition to the duties
October 24, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, CVS Caremark performance-based network, CVS Health, CVS Pharmacy, Helena Foulkes, Jon Roberts, Walgreens
Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — For its CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit manager, CVS Health next year plans to roll out a new 30,000-store pharmacy network anchored by CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens. CVS said late Tuesday that the performance-based network also will include up to 10,000 independent community pharmacies nationwide. Besides yielding unit cost savings, the CVS Caremark
October 23, 2017 by Mark Baumgartner and Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, AmerisourceBergen, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Jonathan Gavras, Kim Holland, Pfizer, Prime Therapeutics, Walgreens, Walgreens medication disposal kiosks
2017, Issue 10-23-2017, Issues, News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Four prominent players in the health care sector are coming together to help combat opioid abuse by increasing the availability of Walgreens medication disposal kiosks. The goal is to collect 300 tons of unwanted medications over the next two years through kiosks at about 1,500 Walgreens stores nationwide. Walgreens now has about
October 18, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, Rahm Emanuel, Walgreens, Walgreens downtown office, Walgreens technology center of excellence
Leading Headlines, Retail News, Technology
DEERFIELD, Ill. —Walgreens is constructing a new technology center of excellence at its downtown Chicago office in the Sullivan Center. Announcing the project with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Walgreens said it will bring about 300 technology jobs to the new facility. That addition, plus new hires and relocations from its Deerfield, Ill., support office, will
October 4, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, AmerisourceBergen, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Bob Mauch, Freda Lewis-Hall, Jonathan Gavras, Kim Holland, opioid abuse, opioid epidemic, Pfizer, Prime Therapeutics, Walgreens, Walgreens medication disposal kiosks
Pharmacy, Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — AmerisourceBergen, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Pfizer and Prime Therapeutics are helping Walgreens fight the national opioid epidemic by expanding the availability of safe medication disposal kiosks. The drug chain said Wednesday that the effort will bring the medication disposal units to an additional 900 Walgreens stores near military bases and
September 4, 2017 by Bill Schiffner
2017 NACDS Total Store Expo, Alex Gourlay, Future Value Targeting, Martin Otto, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, slideshow, Steve Anderson
2017, Issue 09-04-2017, Issues, News, Slideshows
SAN DIEGO — The 2017 NACDS Total Store Expo brought together thousands of retailers and suppliers to learn about emerging technologies, check out the latest products and discuss current trends in health and wellness, beauty, and pharmacy. The National Association of Chain Drug Stores conference offered a cross-industry approach that focused on the entire store.
September 4, 2017 by Jeffrey Woldt and Chain Drug Review
2017 NACDS Total Store Expo, Alex Gourlay, Amazon, Google, Google Express, Jeffrey Woldt, Kantar Retail, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Steve Anderson, Vision 2028, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Walmart, Whole Foods Market, XRC Labs
2017, Issue 09-04-2017, Issues, Opinion
The dynamism of the retail industry’s most active, innovative and forward-thinking members is raising the stakes for everyone in the field. Major developments with potentially far-reaching implications for the way consumers shop are occurring at an unprecedented rate. In just the past few weeks, Walmart and Amazon.com Inc. have ratcheted up the pressure on their
August 21, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
2017 NACDS Total Store Expo, Alex Gourlay, Colin Powell, Steve Anderson, video
Videos
Day two of the 2017 NACDS Total Store Expo got off to a strong start with the morning Business Program, featuring presentations by NACDS chairman and Walgreens Boots Alliance co-COO Alex Gourlay and NACDS president and CEO Steve Anderson. And, of course, there was former Secretary of State and Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell …
August 20, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
2017 Total Store Expo, Alex Gourlay, Colin Powell, Future Value Targeting, Jim Whitman, NACDS chairman, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, slideshow, Steve Anderson
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Retail News, Slideshows
SAN DIEGO — The National Association of Chain Drug Stores is working on a program to identify pharmacy chain members’ work to develop shared value that benefits society, NACDS chairman Alex Gourlay said at the 2017 Total Store Expo. “We are going to tell the story of chains more clearly, and we are going to
August 20, 2017 by Steve Anderson and Chain Drug Review
2017 NACDS Total Store Expo, Alex Gourlay, NACDS Future Value Targeting Initiative, NACDS Retail Advisory Board, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Steve Anderson, Vision 2028, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Retail News
When it comes to addressing front-end topics beyond the pharmacy, I could argue that many other words prove more effective than “conference” in describing the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Total Store Expo (TSE). For example, the word “conversation” comes to mind — conversation of the high-caliber, high-quality, highly collaborative and highly constructive kind.
August 16, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
Alex Gourlay, George Riedl, Helena Foulkes, Mark Panzer, NACDS, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, slideshow, Steve Anderson, Tom Price
Slideshows
Amid the political turmoil in Washington and the unpredictability in the health care arena over the Affordable Care Act’s uncertain future, retail pharmacy operators and their customers are fortunate to have a powerful voice in D.C.: the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. NACDS has been closely monitoring the turbulent health care debate, defending the position