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BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is testing the drive-through pharmacy concept in its Supercenters. The retailer captured the attention of the entire drug store industry last year when it [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s pharmacies are increasingly making the discount chain a destination for wellness. Thanks to a heightened focus on its prescription drug business, the retailer, well [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Community pharmacy leaders seeking ideas for the future would do well to watch Wal-Mart, says William Simon, the chain's executive vice president of professional services. Wal-Mart's role [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- William Simon sees Wal-Mart's competition with chain drug stores for the pharmacy business in simple terms. 'They're going to have their customers,' says Simon, the discounter's executive [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- At the heart of Wal-Mart pharmacy is the Wal-Mart pharmacist. The commitment of the discounter's pharmacists to patient health is widely recognized and the key to the [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Slightly less than 30 years ago Wal-Mart executives decided that the discount chain should go into the community pharmacy business. Like nearly every other decision during that [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy technology have been among the major forces that have contributed to the considerable success that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has garnered in the [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Besides taking steps to make things easier for its health care customers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has gone out of its way to create a cutting-edge environment for [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Considered by many to be the epitome of the one-stop-shopping experience, Wal-Mart's Supercenters will be a very big part of the company's future, according to executives. 'We [...]

SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. -- Going the extra mile comes with the territory for the staff at the Wal-Mart pharmacy here. Consider the time a customer asked pharmacy manager Yolanda Jones [...]

AVON, Ind. -- Irritations and agitations. Addressing and resolving the various nuisances that are encountered by pharmacists on a daily basis is among the issues engaging Wal-Mart pharmacy district manager [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart's relationships with its pharmacy customers keep them coming back, says Bruce Painter, the company's generic drugs buyer. 'It's a very important part of the continued growth [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark.--Sam Walton knew from Wal-Mart's beginnings that prescription and over-the-counter drugs would be key to the chain's image. Walton recognized that being in stock and having low prices would [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- WalMart Stores Inc., whose annual sales are already greater than those of the entire drug store industry, intends to keep getting bigger. Its efforts to do so [...]

ELKTON, Md. -- The first time Carlo Mirabelli ever set foot in a Wal-Mart was just three years ago. He had come to the chain's Elkton unit to interview for [...]

ELKTON, Md. -- When Carlo Mirabelli was working as a small-chain pharmacist and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s pharmacy district manager came into his Delaware store to recruit him, he thought she [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Customers of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are not alone when it comes to praising the performance of the retailer's pharmacists. 'These men and women want to do the [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Counseling, says Duane Jones, a district pharmacy manager for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is not just a vehicle used by pharmacists to provide patients with the critical information [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Pharmacy is a profession fraught with difficult decisions. But for Ron Chomiuk, one issue has been relatively easy to resolve. 'I looked at the company's performance and [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Any young or new pharmacist wondering how far he or she might climb the corporate ladder at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. need only look at the professional progress [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark -- For Wal-Mart Stores Inc. patient counseling doesn't occur only at the prescription counter. Thanks to pharmacist Robin Hoogshagen, people across the country -- whether they shop Wal-Mart [...]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- Kiss Products is a privately owned company located in Port Washington, N.Y. Founded some 22 years ago, Kiss is said to lead the artificial nails category [...]

Though the year is barely half over, the major story of 2010 is clearly the retailer rush to pare assortments, popularly known as SKU rationalization. This exercise in reducing the [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Anyone doubting the importance of the supercenter format need only consider Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s success in food retailing. By having its format of choice combine groceries and [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched a pilot program in Michigan that lets patients get low-cost generics through the mail. The retailer has begun offering Michigan residents a [...]

Wal-Mart stays on the move FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s annual meeting, that yearly celebration of capitalism, entrepreneurialism, Americanism and the impact one individual can exert on a company, [...]

ENTONVILLE, Ark. -- At last month's annual shareholders meeting, Wal-Mart chief executive officer Lee Scott singled out Doug McMillon, president and chief executive officer of Sam's Club, and his team [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- As Wal-Mart continues to open Neighborhood Markets across the country, the concept is slowly but surely becoming a significant force in the world of chain drug retailing. [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- One of the major strengths of Wal-Mart--according to Chris Duffy, a Midwest regional pharmacy manager--is that each store has its own identity. 'Sure, we have a standard [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The best-selling over-the-counter brand in the country is undoubtedly the least advertised one. Wal-Mart's private label Equate line is so successful that it is the No. 1-seller [...]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Ashwin Patel, a Wal-Mart pharmacist in this New Jersey community, realizes that his patients have the option of taking their prescription needs to any of the approximately [...]

The day after Thanksgiving 2004 the new retailing millennium finally began. It occurred at 6 a.m. on Friday, November 26, when stores opened at malls and on Main Streets across [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark -- By far the world's largest retailer--its sales eclipse those of the entire chain drug industry--Wal-Mart continues to strive to operate like the much smaller company it once [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Observers of the business world often draw a direct link between a company's success and the underlying culture driving it. Nowhere, perhaps, is that relationship more apparent [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- While the Supercenter is Wal-Mart's growth vehicle of choice the company has not forsaken the discount stores that were at the heart of its expansion for nearly [...]

LAFAYETTE, La. -- Like many of the thousands of people who keep Wal-Mart's pharmacy operation running, Margo Breckenridge was exposed to the business at a young age and liked what [...]

INDIANAPOLIS -- Although Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pharmacy customers share a number of traits, differences exist between the customer who takes her prescription to one of the retailer's discount store pharmacies [...]

LAFAYETTE, La. -- As a district manager, Margo Breckenridge spends a lot of her time on the road. The 14 Wal-Mart Supercenters in her district are in eight different parishes [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Once Wal-Mart commits to accepting a new launch it will involve all of the retailer's disciplines, from marketing to distribution. 'We make sure every department in Wal-Mart [...]

JACKSON, Miss. -- Since taking over the Jackson district in 2002 Mona Arnold has made a number of staffing changes in many of the stores she oversees. The most effective [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Linda England's proudest achievement at Wal-Mart is her encouragement of managers who were having doubts about their career paths. Two of those people subsequently were named District [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Communication is at the heart of Wal-Mart's ceaseless drive to reduce costs in every part of the supply chain from freight to packaging, says Todd Matherly, Sam's [...]

NEW YORK -- The nation's three biggest discount store chains recently held their annual shareholders meetings, where the executives of each company had very different stories to tell. Wal-Mart Stores [...]

CDR Special Report -- Nothing much happened in beauty care last year. The total category lost ground, due mostly to the fact that supermarkets and discount stores, if Wal-Mart Stores [...]

SAN ANTONIO -- The city of the Alamo is a vibrant market that features some of the most formidable chains in mass market retailing. Its solid growth prospects ensure that [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- As distinctive as its size and success is Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s corporate culture. And, in fact, there is a close causal relationship between that culture and the [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- While the evolution of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has resulted in a shift in focus from the discount store to the Supercenter, the discount format still has a [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- As Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has evolved over the years it has slowly replaced the discount stores that helped build it into the world's most powerful retail chain [...]

OPELOUSAS, La. -- Serving as a direct link between Wal-Mart Stores Inc. headquarters and the outlets she is responsible for in central Louisiana, pharmacy district manager Tiffany Richard does whatever [...]

NORMAN, Okla. -- As manager of over-the-counter drugs for the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. location here, Jennell Houston spends much of her time interacting with both customers and associates. 'My typical [...]