MONTREAL — McKesson Canada has seen its retail pharmacy banner business continue to grow. The company’s roster of pharmacy banners includes Guardian, I.D.A., Medicine Shoppe Canada, Proxim and the newly acquired Remedy’sRx. The company’s pickup this year of Remedy’sRx brought its store count to nearly 2,000 in nine provinces. The purchase followed last year’s increase
WASHINGTON — Scenes from this year’s NACDS RxImpact Day on Capitol Hill convey the high level of enthusiasm for the event among pharmacy advocates and NACDS members as well as lawmakers and other public officials. More than 350 pharmacy advocates from 44 states met with members of Congress. The advocates — including pharmacists, pharmacy executives,
The introduction of the Plenti coalition loyalty program this spring will bring a new element to the loyalty card arena in the United States: choice. By enabling shoppers to earn and redeem points from a breadth of retailers, the participating merchants take the value and appeal of loyalty programs to the next level. What’s more,
NEW YORK — More than 200 people honored Chain Drug Review’s 2014 Retailer of the Year award winners at the Time-Life Building in Manhattan. Honorees included the CVS/pharmacy retail leadership team for Retailer of the Year, Rite Aid’s Tony Montini for Merchant of the Year, Health Mart’s Steve Courtman for Pharmacy Innovator of the Year
NAPLES, Fla. — Executives at regional drug chains took the opportunity to exchange ideas with their peers and trading partners at the 2015 National Association of Chain Drug Stores Regional Chain Conference. Beginning Sunday, Feb. 1, and running through Tuesday, Feb. 3, at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Fla., the NACDS Regional Chain Conference drew senior-level retail
NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA. — Rite Aid Corp. officially marked the opening of the first RediClinics in its drug stores in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its Wellness Store in Newtown Square, Pa., just outside Philadelphia. Rite Aid president and chief operating officer Ken Martindale, Rite Aid executive vice president of pharmacy Robert Thompson and RediClinic chief
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Rite Aid unveiled the latest incarnation of its Wellness Store format in a grand reopening ceremony at its store in the tony Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Hills. On hand at the June 23 event were Rite Aid’s Ken Martindale, president and chief operating officer; Robert Thompson, executive vice president of
