April 24, 2017 by Todd Huseby, Jim Singer and Chain Drug Review
A.T. Kearney, BAT, Border Adjustment Tax, chain drug operators, chain drug store, Jim Singer, NAFTA, Todd Huseby
2017, Issue 04-24-2017, Issues, Opinion
Staying competitive in the fast-moving chain drug store world is hard enough in the best of times. But things may be about to get even tougher. Chain drug operators with significant imports, and the corresponding consumer packaged goods partners, now face potentially significant challenges to their profitability in the form of the uncertainty and mixed-signals
August 16, 2016 by Chris Paddison and Chain Drug Review
A.T. Kearney, chain drug store, Chris Paddison, Digital Disruption, digital technologies, retail pharmacy
Opinion
The explosion of data, analytics, and insights is shifting the ways that health care companies can create value. In a roundtable I recently facilitated on this subject at an industry summit, three themes emerged. First, companies across the entire health care value chain need scale to make the appropriate investments. Second, they need to focus
September 28, 2015 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
Andy Giancamilli, chain drug industry, chain drug store, David Pinto, Jack Futterman, Jack Robinson, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Perry Drug Stores, Ron Ziegler
2015, Issue 09-28-2015, Issues, Opinion
The ranks of the founding families, the leaders who collectively framed and built the chain drug store business in America, are thinning at an alarming rate. Sad as this development is, sadder still is the reality that very few among the current crop of chain drug industry leaders remember who they were or what they
September 14, 2015 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
chain drug store, David Pinto, mass retailing industry, NACDS, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Total Store Expo
2015, Issue 09-14-2015, Issues, Opinion
Summer’s nearly over. The holiday selling season is a few small steps away. The back-to-school selling season is over. Halloween is here. Thanksgiving is a moment away. What happened? Where has 2015 gone? What has it meant for mass retailing? More urgently, Total Store Expo, the mammoth merchandising exhibition assembled by the National Association of
April 30, 2015 by Wendy Liebmann and Chain Drug Review
average American household, chain drug store, How America Shops, shopping habits, U.S. consumer, Wendy Liebmann, WSL Strategic Retail
Opinion
For longer than most of us can remember, the success of U.S. business has been driven by the homogeneity of the population — either how it looked (mainly Caucasian) or what it wanted (similar aspirations). However, as we look ahead, that will not be the future. Not so long ago, the United States was predominantly a