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
August 22, 2015 by Scot Meyer and Chain Drug Review
Brian Cornell, executive vice president of merchandising, Jose Barra, pharmacy, Target Corp.
2015, Issue 08-24-2015, Issues, News
MINNEAPOLIS — Target Corp. executive vice president of merchandising Jose Barra, whose areas of responsibility included the retailer’s pharmacy business, is leaving the company. His departure is the latest in a series of executive changes at Target under chairman and chief executive officer Brian Cornell. Barra was promoted to executive vice president of merchandising last
August 19, 2015 by Chain Drug Review
Jocelyn Konrad, pharmacy, Rite Aid, Robert Thompson
CDR Blog
There’s a changing of the guard in the top pharmacy executive position at Rite Aid. Earlier this month, the company announced a flurry of executive appointments, including the promotion of Jocelyn Konrad to executive vice president of pharmacy. Konrad, who was group vice president of pharmacy services, takes the reins from Robert Thompson, who is
June 26, 2015 by Chain Drug Review
Health Mart, McKesson, McKesson ideaShare 2015, pharmacy
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News
SAN DIEGO — McKesson Corp.’s ideaShare 2015 is underway this week at the San Diego Convention Center. The event, which runs through Saturday, provides an interactive forum for independent pharmacists from across the country to share ideas for growing their businesses, according to McKesson, which says that the annual event provides attendees with access to
June 15, 2015 by John Schultz and Chain Drug Review
Brian Cornell, CVS Health, CVS/pharmacy, Larry Merlo, MinuteClinic, pharmacy, retail health clinics, Target Corp., TargetExpress
Business, Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News
WOONSOCKET, R.I. – CVS Health plans to acquire Target Corp.’s U.S. pharmacy and retail health clinics businesses for about $1.9 billion. CVS said Monday that it will buy more than 1,660 Target pharmacies across 47 states and operate them through a store-within-a-store format and that every new Target store that offers pharmacy services will include
May 18, 2015 by Jeffrey Woldt and Chain Drug Review
Alliance Boots, pharmacy, retail operations, Richard Ashworth, Walgreens, Walgreens Boots Alliance
2015, Business, Featured Articles, Issue 05-18-2015, Leading Headlines, News, Retail News
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Richard Ashworth has an unprecedented role at Walgreens. In his job as president of pharmacy and retail operations, he brings together operational responsibility for the pharmacy and the front end, giving substance to the idea that a better customer experience will result by uniting the two parts of the drug store. Efforts are well under way
April 27, 2015 by Rajeev Kapoor, Megan Geelhoed & Kate Maheu and Chain Drug Review
A.T. Kearney, health care, Kate Maheu, Megan Geelhoed, pharmacy, Rajeev Kapoor, restricted networks
2015, Issue 04-27-2015, Opinion
A lot of uncertainty surrounds the future of health exchanges, but one thing is clear: Customers will have more information about and more transparency into what their health dollars buy — and thus more power to choose. As providers compete on this somewhat leveled playing field, they will be pressured to find new ways to
March 16, 2015 by Scot Meyer and Chain Drug Review
Galen Weston, Loblaw, medication compliance, Patient Contact Centre, pharmacy, President's Choice, Shoppers Drug Mart
2015, Issue 03-16-2015, News
BRAMPTON, Ontario — Loblaw Cos., the parent of Canada’s largest supermarket and pharmacy chains, including Shoppers Drug Mart, plans to invest more than $1.2 billion (Canadian) in its business in 2015. The money will fund new stores and renovations, as well as an expansion of Loblaw’s e-commerce capabilities and improvements to supply chain and information
March 16, 2015 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
convenience store, David Pinto, mass retailing, pharmacy, Target, Target Express
2015, Issue 03-16-2015, Opinion
Target is officially in the convenience store business. Earlier this month the Minneapolis-based mass merchant opened two slimmed-down stores in the San Francisco Bay area. The first opened in downtown San Francisco, the second across the Bay in the college town of Berkeley. These units are the second and third “Express” stores Target has opened
February 2, 2015 by Chain Drug Review
Alberta, Bruce Winston, IDA, Loblaw, McKesson Canada, pharmacists, pharmacy, prescribing authority, role of pharmacists, Sandstone Pharmacies, Shoppers Drug Mart
2015, Issue 02-02-2015, News, Pharmacy
CALGARY, Alberta — “Before the introduction of the expanded services three years ago, our pharmacists at the end of a busy day would often be physically exhausted. Now at the end of their shifts on a day with a similar volume of traffic they are likely to be mentally, as well as physically, exhausted,” says
August 8, 2014 by Bob O'Meara, Todd Huseby, Jason Dombi and Chain Drug Review
A.T. Kearney, accountable care organization, ACO, Bob O’Meara, e-health, health care, Jason Dombi, pharmacy, retail clinic, telemedicine, Todd Huseby
Issue 08-11-2014, Opinion
It’s Monday morning and you wake up with a throbbing headache, stuffy and dizzy, recognizing that the next thing you absolutely positively need to hear is, “The doctor will see you now.” You roll over in bed, pick up your tablet, open your accountable care organization’s (ACO’s) telemedicine app, and in a few minutes you