August 6, 2016 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
chain drug industry, David Pinto, mass retailing, NACDS Total Store Expo
2016, Issue 08-08-2016, Issues, Opinion
The year 2016 is more than half over — and the news concerning the chain drug store community has hardly made a ripple. The Walgreens acquisition of Rite Aid remains a work in progress, though all parties hoped it would have been completed by now. The NACDS Total Store Expo event is unfolding without many
July 25, 2016 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
chain drug industry, chain drug stores, David Pinto, NACDS, NACDS Total Store Expo, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, pharmacy
2016, Issue 07-25-2016, Issues, Opinion
Chain drug store operators are unique among mass market retailers in many ways, none more dramatic than the separation of the pharmacy and front-end businesses. In fact, they are actually two separate businesses, neither overly dependent on the other for success. So it is that the success in pharmacy of a retailer like Walgreens Boots
April 16, 2016 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
chain drug industry, chain drug stores, CVS, David Pinto, mass retailing, Rite Aid, Walgreens
2016, Issue 04-18-2016, Issues, Opinion
One-third of the way into the new year, the chain drug store industry is hardly setting any worlds on fire. Business is good, but noteworthy only in the fact that it’s not better. America’s chain drug industry has significantly dialed down the pace of mergers and acquisitions that had characterized it over the past two
February 22, 2016 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
CDMA, chain drug industry, Chain Drug Marketing Association, David Pinto, Jim Devine
2016, Issue 02-22-2016, Issues, Opinion
This year, Chain Drug Marketing Association (CDMA) marks its 90th anniversary. To translate, the organization was begun in 1926. The date was three years prior to the Great Depression and 13 years before the outbreak of World War II. Flying was a sometime thing, and air travel, when it was deemed an efficient and safe
October 12, 2015 by Geoff Walden and Chain Drug Review
chain drug industry, CVS Health, Empire Co., Express Scripts, Jean Coutu Group, Metro Inc., Rexall Health, Rite Aid, Shoppers Drug Mart, Stefano Pessina, Target Corp., Walgreens Boots Alliance, Walmart
2015, Business, Issue 10-12-2015, Issues, Leading Headlines, News, Retail News
NEW YORK — As much as the chain drug industry has consolidated, there is room for more mergers and acquisitions. That’s evident from the M&A speculation swirling about the sector in the U.S. and Canada, as well as recent activity. Lending credibility to the speculation is none other than Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) chief executive
September 28, 2015 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
Andy Giancamilli, chain drug industry, chain drug store, David Pinto, Jack Futterman, Jack Robinson, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Perry Drug Stores, Ron Ziegler
2015, Issue 09-28-2015, Issues, Opinion
The ranks of the founding families, the leaders who collectively framed and built the chain drug store business in America, are thinning at an alarming rate. Sad as this development is, sadder still is the reality that very few among the current crop of chain drug industry leaders remember who they were or what they
August 23, 2015 by Geoff Walden and Chain Drug Review
Awaken by Quality Choice, CDMA, chain drug industry, Chain Drug Marketing Association, Jim Devine, Quality Choice
Leading Headlines, Retail News
NOVI, Mich. — The Chain Drug Marketing Association (CDMA) has not just withstood the consolidation of the chain drug industry. It has grown in spite of it. CDMA has broadened its membership with grocery stores and wholesalers, as well as convenience store chains, notes president Jim Devine. “We’re going beyond the drug channel,” he says.
July 24, 2015 by Chain Drug Review
2015 NACDS Total Store Expo, chain drug industry, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Steve Anderson
Business, Leading Headlines, Retail News
ARLINGTON, Va. — Exhibit space for the 2015 NACDS Total Store Expo has sold out, a month before the annual chain drug industry event kicks off in Denver. The National Association of Chain Drug Stores said Friday that although the exhibit floor space is filled, online registration is still open for retailers and suppliers that
February 2, 2015 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
chain drug industry, chain drug retailers, chain drug retailing, chain drug stores, David Pinto, drug chains, merchandising, new products, product selection
2015, Issue 02-02-2015, Opinion
A small group of chain drug industry veterans met recently in Cleveland to discuss the lamentable state of innovative and creative merchandising in chain drug retailing these days. The group, consisting of some dozen retailers, suppliers and association executives, concluded that a variety of factors — most notably industry consolidation and the tendency among retailers
February 2, 2015 by Jeffrey Woldt and Chain Drug Review
Bartell Drugs, Bartell family, Canadian operations, chain drug industry, CVS Health, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Fred's, Jeffrey Woldt, Mike Bloom, NACDS, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, RediClinic, retail pharmacy, Rite Aid, RxImpact Day, Target, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Walmart
2015, Issue 02-02-2015, Opinion
The new year is just over a month old and already the chain drug industry has seen its fair share of noteworthy events. Walgreens Boots Alliance had a coming out party, opening trading at NASDAQ and unveiling its new corporate logo; Brian Unmacht became the first person outside the Bartell family to serve as president
January 5, 2015 by Chain Drug Review and Chain Drug Review
chain drug industry, chain drug retailers, retail health care, retail pharmacy
2015, Business, Issue 01-05-2015, News, Pharmacy
NEW YORK — As 2015 gets under way, chain drug retailers in the United States and Canada are seeking ways to get the most out of pharmacy’s continued movement away from a dispensing orientation toward a service model focused on improved health outcomes. Chain drug industry executives say pharmacies are positioned to become integral health
January 5, 2015 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
Alliance Boots, AmerisourceBergen, Bartell Drugs, Cardinal Health, chain drug industry, chain drug retailing, CVS Health, David Pinto, Greg Wasson, Kerr Drug, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Rite Aid, Tony Civello, Walgreens, Walgreens Boots Alliance
2015, Issue 01-05-2015, Opinion
Which events were most significant for chain drug retailing in 2014? As usual, that is not an easy question to answer. In many ways, 2014 was a remarkable year for the chain drug industry, one in which the character of the business was changed, probably irrevocably. The industry assumed a global character for perhaps the