The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has affected our personal lives, businesses, schools, health care systems, government and shopping behaviors. As retailers and manufacturers on the front line, we face real, daily challenges. How do we get more hand sanitizer into the stores? Should we pivot our manufacturing to produce toilet paper and cleaning products? How do
By Dwight deVera All pharmacy professionals believe one prescription error is one too many. Increasingly, the practice of pharmacy is focused away from the primary functions of filling prescriptions and counseling patients. The reality is that ancillary, but still consequential, activities are consuming valuable time and resources during a retail pharmacist’s day. These activities include
When I first set out to write this, the U.S. was a very different place. We are now at a moment that calls to mind the opening lines of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it
As the nation’s health care system has come under intense scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors, nurses and hospital systems, especially those dealing directly with coronavirus patients, have earned accolades for their heroic efforts to save lives and restore health. Two other components of the health care system — one routinely undervalued, the other often
The time has come, if perhaps a bit prematurely, to raise a glass to the leadership and staffers at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. These have been especially difficult days for NACDS. In the midst of the most serious pandemic in our nation’s history, the chain drug association was forced by circumstances beyond
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles on how retailers are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. London Drugs of Richmond, British Columbia, has been responding significantly to the COVID-19 crisis. In Canada, food and pharmacy retail is deemed an essential service, and the government requires the stores to stay open. That creates
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles on how retailers are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. As COVID-19 continues to affect the lives of Canadians, our stores have been deemed an essential service and have been asked to remain open during these very uncertain times. While there have obviously been a lot
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles on how retailers are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. Here at Lewis Drug, keeping our customers and our associates safe is our top priority. As always, despite the ongoing news surrounding coronavirus (COVID-19), our stores and pharmacies are open and remain ready to serve you.
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles on how retailers are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. For 130 years and counting, Bartell Drugs has always been ready to help the communities it serves in the Seattle and Tacoma area. During this difficult time now, Bartell’s is doing no less than it always
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles on how retailers are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. During these challenging times, McKesson plays a critical role in the health care supply chain, helping to deliver essential medicines and supplies to the people who need them most. As one of the largest health care
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles on how retailers are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. At AmerisourceBergen, we are driven to deliver — during “blue skies” and in times of immense need. There’s no question that the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has challenged our health care system, including the pharmaceutical supply chain,
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles on how retailers are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. I appreciate the chance to report to the Chain Drug Review community on NACDS’ COVID-19 response. NACDS and CDR have much in common, including many of the retailer and supplier companies and team members whom we
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles on how retailers are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. When I entered the pharmacy profession, I took an oath to “devote my professional life to the service of all humankind.” Each and every day of my career, for the last 25 years, I’ve gone to
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles on how retailers are responding to the COVID-19 crisis. As the COVID-19 pandemic shutters schools, clears freeways and shuts down entire cities, more than 50,000 Rite Aid associates have found themselves on the front lines of a once-in-a-generation public health crisis. We’re living our mission
