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Analytics show divergence from ‘pre-COVID normal’

Analytics show divergence from ‘pre-COVID normal’

The erstwhile baseball all-star and philosopher Yogi Berra, renowned for malapropisms called “Yogisms,” had two famous quotes that could apply to the 2023 consumer health care world as it emerges from COVID: “The future ain’t what it used to be” and “You can observe a lot by just watching it.” The post-COVID future for consumer

Vision of leaders at CVS, WBA goes beyond the store

Vision of leaders at CVS, WBA goes beyond the store

Sci-fi thrillers in the 1950s first introduced the phrase “Take me to your leader.” If extraterrestrials were to land in today’s U.S. drug chain universe, they would meet two leaders who only recently arrived on the scene and move fast. It might be hard to find them. Perhaps unimaginable a decade ago, the two major

Expect a global collision in consumer health care

Expect a global collision in consumer health care

The pandemic years have changed the U.S. consumer health care products and services world. Evolution and revolution on a global scale confront U.S. chain drug stores and independent pharmacies alike. The rapper Tupac Shakur once said, “You either ride with us or collide with us.” Both are happening. The consumer health care world is riding

Boots adapts its strategy with Farmacias Benavides

Boots adapts its strategy with Farmacias Benavides

To quote one of Cortes’ officers when the Spanish first arrived in Mexico, they came “to serve God and His Majesty and also to get riches.” While the Boots/Walgreens story was playing out in the U.S., ultimately ending in Walgreens Boots Alliance, Boots was also busy south of the border acquiring Farmacias Ahumada in Chile

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