August 15, 2023 by Chain Drug Review
Product Showcase winners, Total Store Expo
Leading Headlines, Supplier News

SAN DIEGO – The National Association of Chain Drug Stores has named the winners of the 2023 Total Store Expo Product Showcase. Products in categories ranging from home healthcare to baby care to consumables and pharmacy operations equipment were on display in the “Product Showcase” on the exhibit floor. The showcase provides increased visibility for
August 13, 2023 by Chain Drug Review
Anderson, NACDS, Total Store Expo, Wysong
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines

SAN DIEGO — National Association of Chain Drug Stores chair Mike Wysong, and president and CEO Steve Anderson, Sunday welcomed member retailers and suppliers to the NACDS Total Store Expo — the third conference in 2023 celebrating the association’s 90th anniversary year. Speaking at Sunday’s Business Program, Wysong and Anderson delivered a clear message: The
June 4, 2020 by Chain Drug Review
Steven Anderson, Total Store Expo
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Pharmacy

Steven Anderson, president and chief executive officer of NACDS, has issued the following memo regarding 2020 Total Store Expo: To: NACDS Members From: Steven C. Anderson, FASAE, CAE, IOM President & Chief Executive Officer Date: June 4, 2020 The San Diego Convention Center has announced that it will now be closed for events until September.
September 11, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
Bausch + Lomb, Joe Gordon, Lumify, NACDS, Total Store Expo
Supplier News

RIDGEWATER, N.J. — Bausch + Lomb announced that LUMIFY brimonidine tartrate ophthalmic solution 0.025% redness reliever eye drops were named a Product Showcase winner in the healthcare and over-the-counter (OTC) category at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores’ (NACDS) 2018 Total Store Expo. “We’re honored to be recognized by NACDS with the coveted Product Showcase award
September 4, 2017 by Bill Schiffner
Jim Whitman, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, RxImpact Day, Steve Anderson, Total Store Expo
2017, Issue 09-04-2017, Issues, News
SAN DIEGO — At the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Total Store Expo, association president and chief executive Steve Anderson took a few moments in the Business Program to single out the achievements of Jim Whitman, senior vice president of member programs and services, for more than 40 years of service to the association.
August 7, 2017 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
David Pinto, NACDS Total Store Expo, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Total Store Expo
2017, Issue 08-07-2017, Issues, Opinion

The Total Store Expo, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores’ annual front-end and pharmacy event, is once again upon us. Now in its fifth iteration, it has already been successful in replacing the Marketplace Conference, an NACDS meeting that had outlived its original purpose and had no legitimate second act to call upon. But
June 5, 2017 by Brian Bossetta
2017 NACDS Total Store Expo, Jim Whitman, Meet the Market, Meet the Retailer, NACDS, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Total Store Expo, Vision 2028
2017, Issue 06-05-2017, Issues, News

ARLINGTON, Va. — A suite of tools is available for attendees prepping for the 2017 NACDS Total Store Expo in San Diego, says Jim Whitman, senior vice president of member programs and services for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. This year’s event will be held August 19 through August 22 at the San
November 7, 2016 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
beauty care category in chain drug stores, beauty care suppliers, chain drug industry, chain drug retailing, David Pinto, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Target, Total Store Expo, Walmart
2016, Issue 11-07-2016, Issues, Opinion

In chain drug retailing, the most disappointing product category in 2016 has been beauty care. Indeed, the problem with the beauty care category in chain drug stores is, quite simply, the chain drug store’s inability to generate any significant interest in the category. It performs far more credibly in other mass retailing outlets, and it
September 12, 2016 by Geoff Walden and Chain Drug Review
Martin Otto, NACDS, NACDS Foundation, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Steve Anderson, Total Store Expo, Vision 2027
2016, Issue 09-12-2016, Issues, News

BOSTON — Pharmacy-based health care can help the U.S. meet an array of socioeconomic challenges, Martin Otto, chief merchant and chief financial officer of H-E-B, said at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Total Store Expo. Otto, who is also chairman of NACDS, said that access to pharmacy patient care can help reverse increases
August 7, 2016 by Chain Drug Review
Hy-Vee, NACDS Political Action Committee, NACDS-PAC, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, PEP Award, Politically Engaged Pharmacy award, Randy Edeker, Richard Ashworth, Total Store Expo, Walgreens
Leading Headlines, Retail News

BOSTON — Hy-Vee Inc. was honored by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores for its engagement in the NACDS Political Action Committee (NACDS-PAC). During the Political Involvement Reception at the Total Store Expo on Saturday evening, Hy-Vee chairman and CEO Randy Edeker — who was NACDS chairman from April 2015 to April 2016 —
September 14, 2015 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
chain drug store, David Pinto, mass retailing industry, NACDS, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Total Store Expo
2015, Issue 09-14-2015, Issues, Opinion

Summer’s nearly over. The holiday selling season is a few small steps away. The back-to-school selling season is over. Halloween is here. Thanksgiving is a moment away. What happened? Where has 2015 gone? What has it meant for mass retailing? More urgently, Total Store Expo, the mammoth merchandising exhibition assembled by the National Association of
August 23, 2015 by Chain Drug Review
2015 NACDS RxImpact Leader of the Year award, Albertsons/Safeway, Dan Salemi, Darren Townzen, Harold W. Pratt Award, IMS Health Bernie Greenberg Pharmacy Partnership Award, John Luebker, Kinney Drugs, KPH Healthcare Services, NACDS, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Politically Engaged Pharmacy award, Randy Edeker, Rite Aid, Robert Thompson, Sam's Club, Steve Anderson, Total Store Expo, Walmart
Leading Headlines, Retail News

DENVER — The National Association of Chain Drug Stores honored the achievements of several retailers at the Total Store Expo, with the Harold W. Pratt Award — pharmacy’s highest honor — going to Rite Aid executive vice president of pharmacy Robert Thompson. Thompson was presented the Pratt Award by NACDS chairman Randy Edeker on Sunday
May 18, 2015 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
2015 NACDS Annual Meeting, David Pinto, NACDS, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Randy Edeker, Total Store Expo
2015, Issue 05-18-2015, Opinion

Less than a month has passed since the National Association of Chain Drug Stores hosted its 2015 Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. By all accounts, the event was hugely productive, as retailer and supplier attendees from around the country and throughout the industry journeyed to South Florida in the most optimistic mood the chain drug
January 19, 2015 by David Pinto and Chain Drug Review
2015 NACDS Regional Chain Conference, Annual Meeting, chain drug retailing, David Pinto, John Standley, NACDS, NACDS meetings, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, regional drug chains, Rite Aid, Total Store Expo
Issue 01-19-2015, Opinion
The cataclysmic changes within the chain drug retailing community, whatever their ultimate implications for America’s largest drug chains and for the industry in general, are putting the country’s regional drug chains more glaringly in the spotlight. Indeed, not only are America’s smaller drug chains more professionally managed and operated than they have yet been, they