COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Global Market Development Center (GMDC) has launched a technology-focused resource portal in tandem with the Center for Advancing Retail & Technology (CART). GMDC said Thursday that the CART-powered platform enables its members to search and learn about service, solution and innovations in retail and connect with retailers, brand manufacturers, solution
Wrigley has put its best red-nosed face forward and taken up the challenge from Walgreens. The candy maker has responded to Walgreens’ challenge on social media for Red Nose Day, an event that the drug chain inaugurated in the U.S. last year and for which it kicked off this year’s campaign last week. Red Nose
VARENNES, Quebec — Jean Coutu Group has introduced an image transmission service for new prescriptions that’s designed to make it easier for patients to fill medications. The Canadian drug chain said Wednesday that the new service is accessed via the Jean Coutu mobile application. To use the service, patients open their Health Record in the
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Red Nose Day is back on again at Walgreens. The drug chain said Monday that it’s once again the exclusive retail partner of the second annual Red Nose Day in the United States, helping to raise funds to fight poverty among children. To that end, the campaign’s iconic Red Noses — which
WASHINGTON — The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has expanded NACDS RxImpact Votes get-out-the-vote initiative this year, including new video ads, a website and social media engagement. NACDS said the first 30-second video, titled “Effective,” premiered on Wednesday during the kickoff of the NACDS RxImpact Day on Capitol Hill lobbying event and called on those
RYE BROOK, N.Y., and DEERFIELD, Ill. — The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and Walgreens have partnered to advance cancer therapies and address the changing treatment model facing patients with blood and other cancers. Announced Wednesday, the collaboration between LLS and Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy aims to help patients, families and caregivers by providing educational tools
Efforts to quash sales taxes on tampons and sanitary napkins are gaining steam around the country. In a video and an article this week on the so-called “period tax,” the Associated Press reported that five women have filed a class-action lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court claiming that the state’s taxation of such feminine
Mike Wolf, senior director and DMM of advanced care at Walgreens, moderated a roundtable discussion at the recent ECRM Home Health Care EPPS in Dallas that focused on how retailers and manufacturers can partner to optimize the consumer experience in-store. “The big emerging theme was really around balancing the retail packaging with education and a
VARENNES, Quebec — Jean Coutu Group has upgraded its online health care management platform to make it easier for families to access and keep track of their pharmacy and other health information. The new Health Record is offered by all Jean Coutu network pharmacies and combines all services and benefits into one platform, the Canadian
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — In comments to Congress, the National Community Pharmacists Association called for more oversight of pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies. NCPA said payers, pharmacy patients and pharmacists could see “tangible benefits” from increased transparency into PBM business practices and potential conflicts of interests. The association submitted its comments to the House Committee on
WOONSOCKET, R.I., and MINNEAPOLIS — The first CVS pharmacies have opened in six Target discount stores in North Carolina. Branded as CVS Pharmacy, the pharmacies are being operated as store-within-a-store departments and are located in Hickory, Monroe, Morrisville, Raleigh, Matthews and Wesley Chapel, N.C. Executives from CVS Health and Target Corp. — including CVS Pharmacy
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — At its recent EPPS event here devoted to specialty pharmacy, ECRM hosted seven special educational sessions called Thought Interaction Pods, including one on the role of personal device data in improving medication adherence. John Giannouris, vice president of pharmacy services at ValueCentric, an Orchard Park, N.Y.-based data management specialist focused on the
CVS Health has teamed up with DoSomething.org, a global youth organization focused on social change, for Quitters Always Win, a national campaign that urges young people to create cards encouraging family and friends who smoke to make quitting their New Year’s Resolution. Young people can sign up at DoSomething.org/winner and receive resources for making their
LAVAL, Quebec, and DEERFIELD, Ill. — Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. and Walgreens have entered agreements in which the drug maker will directly distribute branded prescription drugs in a range of therapeutical areas to the pharmacy chain at reduced pricing. Valeant said Monday that, under the fulfillment agreement, it will cut the wholesale list prices of
