April 28, 2015 by Joseph Bona and Chain Drug Review
CBX, chain drug retailers, chain drug stores, drug store chain, Drug Store of the Future, front end, Joseph Bona
2015, Issue 04-27-2015, Leading Headlines, Opinion
The concept cars unveiled at major auto shows always seem a bit “out there.” But by making a practice of radically rethinking their products, global car makers have learned to unleash their creativity and position themselves for the future. Are chain drug stores doing the same? How much time and money does the industry
April 27, 2015 by Chain Drug Review
Affordable Care Act, chain drug stores, chain pharmacies, drug chains, drug store industry
2015, Featured Articles, Issue 04-27-2015, Leading Headlines, News, Retail News
NEW YORK — Drug chains are leveraging their strengths of accessibility and convenience as they extend their core prescription drug business further into the health care realm and diversify their front-end mix. Industry observers say many of the people newly insured under the Affordable Care Act will turn to chain drug stores for their scripts
April 6, 2015 by Scot Meyer and Chain Drug Review
chain drug stores, minimum wage, Target Corp., UFCW, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Walmart
2015, Issue 04-06-2015, Leading Headlines, News, Retail News
NEW YORK — In the wake of Target Corp.’s decision to join Walmart in raising its minimum pay rate for hourly workers, other retailers, including chain drug stores, may face pressure to do the same. The United Food and Commercial Workers International union reportedly plans to step up its efforts to organize workers at Walgreens
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
January 5, 2015 by Mark Tosh and Chain Drug Review
chain drug stores, Christmas, Craig Johnson, CVS/pharmacy, drug chains, holiday retail sales, holiday shopping season, Jack Kleinhenz, Judy Sansone, MasterCard Advisors, Matthew Shay, National Retail Federation, Sarah Quinlan, SpendingPulse
2015, Business, Issue 01-05-2015, News
NEW YORK — A late shopping rush on the weekend before Christmas helped put some twinkle in holiday retail sales, but the final results for the season seemed to fall short of the optimistic projections retailers had set back in early November. Drug chains, however, may have fared slightly better during the holidays than the
January 5, 2015 by Adam Pressman, Joshua Swartz and Chain Drug Review
A.T. Kearney, Adam Pressman, chain drug stores, customer interaction, digital marketing, Joshua Swartz, retailing, social media
2015, Issue 01-05-2015, Opinion
Consumer-centricity in retailing is often cloaked in words about putting the consumer at the center of our business, but what will happen when consumers are the focal point of their own business? The use of social media changes the dynamic and puts consumers at the core of their own brand. Bad customer experiences, often the
October 24, 2014 by Adam Pellegrini, Adam Pressman, Jason Dombi and Chain Drug Review
A.T. Kearney, Adam Pellegrini, Adam Pressman, APIs, Balance Rewards, chain drug stores, digital health, health and wellness, health apps, Jason Dombi, Walgreens
Issue 10-27-2014, Opinion
The Wild West never lacked for traveling salesmen pushing the newest elixir or snake oil to solve all your medical maladies. Fever? Take this! Stomach pains? Here’s the cure! As the health and medical fields matured, however, the playing field was leveled as trusted information became available through doctors, textbooks and other channels. The snake
January 7, 2014 by Andres Mendoza Pena and Chain Drug Review
A.T. Kearney, Amazon, Andres Mendoza Pena, chain drug stores, CVS, drug and beauty retailing, drug chains, drug store, e-commerce, e-tailers, food, omnichannel, retailing, Walgreens
Issue 01-06-2014, Opinion
As if the obvious needed to be stated, the period of slow, evolutionary change in the retailing environment for drug, food and convenience items is long over. The arrival of pure-play e-commerce companies to food, drug and beauty retailing marked the end of evolutionary and the beginning of truly explosive revolutionary change. The battlefield is