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Women have risen and retailing is better for it

Women have risen and retailing is better for it

It’s not customary for a publication to tout the editorial relevance of a sister publication, one authored under the same editorial staff. It’s neither customary nor wise. Such praise, most journalists believe, is best left to an outside authority or, at the least, to a supposedly impartial observer. Still, every so often, an article appears

A gracious gesture from a thoughtful retailer

A gracious gesture from a thoughtful retailer

It occasionally happens — some may say not often enough — that America’s mass retailers reach out, individually or collectively — to recognize the very credible reporting turned in by the bastioned retail trade press. Mostly, however, the trade publishing subsection of the mass retailing community toils in oblivion, content for the occasional word of

News of Gourlay’s plans spurs swift reaction

News of Gourlay’s plans spurs swift reaction

Reports from sources close to Walgreens Boots Alliance to the effect that the company’s talented and personable senior executive Alex Gourlay was, for now at least, preparing for retirement brought a sharper reaction from the chain drug community than so important a transition usually elicits. The response was primarily the natural result of the affection

Five requisite Annual Meeting appointments

Five requisite Annual Meeting appointments

As we, among others of lesser renown, have repeatedly pointed out, this year’s NACDS Annual Meeting will differ from those that have preceded it. For one obvious reason. It will be conducted virtually. That being the case, we thought we would help you out by offering — indeed insisting on — five appointments you, whether

A long, but fruitful pharmacy journey

A long, but fruitful pharmacy  journey

GLENCOE, Ill. — This is a story about Edwin Levin, an 82-year-old native of Chicago’s northern suburbs. Levin, a registered pharmacist, has spent much of his life behind or in front of various prescription counters, dispensing prescriptions, offering advice and generally doing what the most accomplished people in his profession routinely do: advise and counsel

Yearning for the NACDS Annual Meeting

Yearning for the NACDS Annual Meeting

With the approach of February, the chain drug industry turns its collective eye toward April and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Annual Meeting, that traditional harbinger of the industry’s spring, time of renewal, rebirth, new opportunities and, hopefully for some, new beginnings. And that’s as it should be. It is only fitting that

Bob Kwait: The once and future merchant

Bob Kwait: The once and future merchant

To once again paraphrase that age-old maxim from a time-honored religious treatise: To those who know Bob Kwait, no explanation is necessary; to those who do not, no explanation is possible. Through a retailing career marked by innovation, creative thinking and, at times, controversy, Kwait stamped the chain drug community with a brand of thinking

The day mass retail came together

The day mass retail came together

Wednesday, October 7, 2020, will be remembered or fondly recalled by mass retailing aficionados as the day a microcosm of the mass retailing community assembled, virtually, to discuss the past, debate the present and predict the industry’s future. As background, the event was conceived, assembled and choreographed by Scott Emerson, founder and CEO of the

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