April 23, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
chain drug stores
Featured Articles, Issue 04-23-2018, Leading Headlines, News
NEW YORK — This isn’t your father’s chain drug industry. It’s not even your older brother’s. The mergers of CVS Health and Aetna Inc. and Rite Aid Corp. and Albertsons Cos. are recasting two of the top three players and, in the process, redefining what it means to be a drug store operator. “Prescriptions, O-T-Cs
July 3, 2017 by Jeffrey Woldt and Chain Drug Review
Aldi, Amazon, chain drug stores, drug chains, food and beverage sales, grocery business, Jason Hart, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Woldt, Lidl, Whole Foods Market
2017, Issue 07-03-2017, Issues, Opinion
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.” To the extent that Emerson’s insight is applicable to the grocery business, retailers vying for a share of the nation’s $800 billion a year in food and beverage sales, a contingent that includes
April 24, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
Adam Fein, Affordable Care Act, American Health Care Act, Bob Kirby, CFRA, chain drug industry, chain drug stores, David Silverman, Drug Channels Institute, Fitch Ratings, Fred's, health insurance coverage, Joseph Agnese, Pembroke Consulting, Walgreens-Rite Aid merger
2017, Business, Featured Articles, Issue 04-24-2017, Issues, Leading Headlines, News, Retail News
NEW YORK — Entering the second quarter of 2017, the chain drug industry was awaiting answers to a couple of big, lingering questions. First, what will the chain drug landscape look like? A significant change in the field of players is likely in store pending antitrust clearance of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.’s (WBA’s) deal to
April 3, 2017 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
chain drug retailing, chain drug stores, CVS Health, David Pinto, mass retailing industry, pharmacy retailers, Rite Aid, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Walgreens-Rite Aid deal
2017, Issue 04-03-2017, Issues, Opinion
April is here — and still no resolution on the pending acquisition of Rite Aid Corp. by Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. As time stretches out, this indecision bodes ill for an acquisition that was until recently viewed as an agreement with benefits for both parties. Now, confusion is apparently overtaking certainty — and there is
August 6, 2016 by Todd Maute and Chain Drug Review
CBX, chain drug stores, CVS, drug store experience, Fresh Market, Rite Aid, Todd Maute, Trader Joe’s, Walgreens, Wegmans
Leading Headlines, Opinion
By gobbling prime real estate and mastering the science of site selection, the top national drug store chains have absolutely succeeded in getting as close to the customer as possible. But in an era when almost anything you want is available at the touch of a button — not just on your computer at home
August 1, 2016 by John Shakow and Chain Drug Review
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, chain drug stores, final AMP rule, John Shakow, King & Spalding, Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, multisource drug, pharmacy reimbursement, Retail Community Pharmacies
Leading Headlines, Opinion
On February 1, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Final Rule interpreting the provisions of the 2010 health care reform law that address the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (MDRP). While much of the Final Rule speaks to drug manufacturer rights and responsibilities in the MDRP, significant portions are directly applicable
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 18, 2016 by Chain Drug Review
Adam Fein, chain drug stores, Drug Channels Institute, drug wholesalers, Joseph Agnese, Pembroke Consulting, pharmacy industry, pharmacy supply chain, retail pharmacy, S&P Capital IQ
2016, Business, Featured Articles, Issue 04-18-2016, Issues, Leading Headlines, News, Retail News
NEW YORK — Going forward, chain drug stores can bank on the same underlying trends that have fueled the retail pharmacy business in recent years. But the industry as they’ve known it won’t look quite the same. Retailer consolidation, changes in drug purchasing and the influx of specialty drugs are reshaping the competitive arena, industry
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
December 7, 2015 by Geoff Walden and Chain Drug Review
chain drug stores, generic drugs, Harris Poll, over-the-counter drugs, prescription drugs
2015, Issue 12-07-2015, Issues, News
NEW YORK — Americans prefer generic drugs to brands for both prescription and over-the-counter drugs, according to a new Harris Poll. Among those who purchase prescription drugs for themselves, nearly seven in 10 (69%) say, given a choice, they would opt for generics more often. Three in 10 go as far as saying they would
December 7, 2015 by Jeffrey Woldt and Chain Drug Review
chain drug stores, drug chains, Jeffrey Woldt, mass retailing, retail industry
2015, Issue 12-07-2015, Issues, Opinion
The retailing business in the United States may have reached an inflection point during the period around Black Friday, traditionally seen as the start of the holiday selling season. While reports from different sources about retailers’ performance during the last week of November don’t neatly align, the consensus is that e-commerce continues to gain ground
August 26, 2015 by Todd Maute and Chain Drug Review
beauty care, Boots No7, CBX, chain drug stores, CVS/pharmacy, national drug chains, Nuance Salma Hayek, Receutics, Rite Aid, Todd Maute, Walgreens
Leading Headlines, Opinion
National drug chains are working hard to drive more sales in the beauty care category. The merged Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., for starters, is revamping its stores with a swankier cosmetics offering centered on the Boots No7 skin care line, which already drives traffic across Europe. For its part, Rite Aid Corp. is rolling out
August 22, 2015 by Jeffrey Woldt and Chain Drug Review
Amazon, chain drug stores, e-commerce, Greg Greeley, Jeffrey Woldt, Millward Brown Digital, Prime Day, Walmart.com
2015, Issue 08-24-2015, Issues, Opinion
Results from Amazon’s Prime Day promotion last month raise some interesting questions for all retailers that compete with the e-commerce giant, a group that has come to include chain drug stores, other mass marketers and practically any seller of consumer goods. Held in conjunction with Amazon’s 20th anniversary, the event was designed to reward shoppers
August 4, 2015 by Chain Drug Review
Aetna, Affordable Care Act, Anthem, chain drug stores, chain pharmacies, Cigna, health insurance industry, Humana, Medicaid business, Medicare Advantage
CDR Blog
Drug chains have gotten used to dealing with fewer, and larger, drug makers, wholesalers and PBMs over the years. Retailers have also consolidated. Now a merger wave has washed over the health insurance industry. Though acquisitions in other sectors have been driven by the pursuit of economies of scale, the health insurance consolidation is seen