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Optimism, skepticism, confidence and concern were among the range of emotions shared by Walmart suppliers who participated in the second annual Walmart Supplier Survey conducted by Drug Store News' sister [...]

For Toys 'R' Us chairman and CEO David Brandon, it's all about having a successful holiday in 2015--a short-term goal that he believes will pave the way to leveraging long-term [...]

There's no disputing numbers when it comes to evaluating the performance of a category, and when it comes to herbals, the numbers are impressive. Not only did sales increase an [...]

Category management is a much-talked-about concept in the chain drug industry, but how far have chains come in putting it into practice? At different paces and according to different models, [...]

Like mariners looking for a safe port in stormy seas, chain drug merchants are scouring the globe for new sales opportunities that will keep them afloat as they grapple with [...]

Nutritional supplements are being sold everywhere these days. The category has moved well beyond the fad phase, and now, for many Americans, nutritional supplementation is an everyday part of life. [...]

Throughout most of its decades-long involvement in the pharmacy business, Wal-Mart was content with the solid growth that resulted from rapid store expansion and a hard-fought reputation for low prices. [...]

Wal-Mart's pursuit of growth in recent years has led the company to develop alternative store designs in some unconventional locations and generally be more accommodating to the design sensibilities of [...]

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Facing a tide of bad publicity and litigation, Wal-Mart indicated at its annual shareholders meeting earlier this month that it intends to burnish its image with policies [...]

CLEARWATER, Fla. - The process of integrating Eckerd's 1,724 stores and the approximately 1,100 stores operated by Penney's Thrift Drug subsidiary soon will begin, and expectations about the future of [...]

A better understanding of why the OTC department in retail pharmacies looks the way it does today can be gained by looking back to the early part of this decade. [...]

The OTC marketplace has never seen anything like it. During the past year, nine Rx-to-OTC switch products appeared on store shelves. Several created entirely new OTC categories, and others brought [...]

Last year, 300,000 incidents of drug abuse or death were recorded by the Drug Enforcement Administration's Drug Abuse Warning Network, a record-keeping system that tracks emergency rooms and coroners' offices [...]

Is everyday low price a threat or a boon to the chain drug industry? The answer depends on who you ask. Moves by Procter & Gamble and other suppliers to [...]

McALESTER, Okia. -- The popularity of drive-through pharmacies at chain drug stores has not been lost on discount store and super-center operators who increasingly are looking for ways to incorporate [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Three years after opening its first Neighborhood Market store, Wal-Mart still isn't ready to pull the trigger on the type of large-scale expansion that was anticipated before [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer is out to dispel the notion that supercenters are less convenient than chain drug stores, and two of its recently opened stores along the western [...]

Wal-Mart looks abroad to lend meaning to its moniker Wal-Mart International knows exactly what it wants to be when it grows up. It's getting there that's the challenge. 'We need [...]

Wal-Mart has reached another critical juncture in its history as it prepares to enter the realm of the world's largest company. The chain's sales for the current fiscal year are [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. - When Wal-Mart opens the doors on its newest concept store later this year, customers will find a standard food and drug combination store compressed into 40,000 square [...]

Continued growth and increased competition from Amazon.com and the dollar stores. Improved in-stock levels offset by questionable in-store execution. Reduced buyer turnover and senior executives receptive to trading partner views. [...]

When planning commission officials in Northwest Arkansas gave Walmart the go ahead for a 40,000-sq.-ft. store in Bentonville, Ark., back in 1998, it was the retail industry's biggest story that [...]

At first blush, there appears to be nothing special about Dollar General's first Southern California store in the suburb of Montclair. It occupies about 7,500 sq. ft. of space in [...]

Senior Walmart executives regularly invoke the name of Sam Walton when it serves to reinforce a point regarding the company's business model or the cultural principles on which Walton is [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Target is poised to become an even more significant player in the world of health, wellness and beauty in the coming years, assuming the company can execute a [...]

ROGERS, Ark. -- If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Walmart's suppliers are the window to its future, thanks to the truly unique relationship the retailer enjoys [...]

The pace of growth may have slowed last year at Publix, but recent actions on the part of the Southeast's leading supermarket operator indicate the company hasn't wavered in its [...]

The pace at which Walmart launched health-and-wellness initiatives slowed in 2009, and understandably so given challenging market conditions and the unsustainable level of activity undertaken by the company in prior [...]

Change has come fast and furious at Walmart over the past three years as the company sought to reinvent itself. New leadership and new strategies predictably took the company in [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Target shoppers who weren't aware the retailer operated pharmacies will be hard-pressed to overlook that fact any longer now that an aggressive in-store communication effort has begun. The [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Talk about pressure. Pharmacy is playing an unfamiliar role in Target's holiday plans this year, as the retailer is soon expected to begin airing its first ever national [...]

SPRING HILL, Fla., and BRONX, N.Y. -- Target expanded its pharmacy presence last month with the opening of 23 new stores nationwide, and extended a bold pricing promise to more [...]

Bentonville, Ark. -- Project Impact is proving to be an appropriate code name to describe the reinvention of how Walmart goes to market in an increasing number of stores, judging [...]

Rogers, Ark. -- Two Walmart stores in northwest Arkansas are experimenting with new technology that adds fun and excitement to the beauty department, along with the potential to increase sales. [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- With major changes looming for the nation's healthcare system, recent actions by Walmart suggest the company intends to prepare for the uncertainty of health care's future by [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- A reputation for low prices, increasingly budget-conscious consumers and a slew of operational and merchandising improvements propelled Walmart's U.S. business to new heights last year and promise [...]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The future of pharmacy education has arrived in West Virginia where the University of Charleston School of Pharmacy has created an innovative educational practice setting in partnership [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Mike Duke's name may be unfamiliar to those in the chain drug industry, but that will change early next year when he replaces Lee Scott as president [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- The pharmacy at Target has emerged as an important asset to drive customer traffic and build loyalty at a time when the retailer's sales and profits are the [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- When Wal-Mart held its 15th annual analyst and investor conference late last month, pharmacy and health care didn't rate a mention despite the fact that Wal-Mart is [...]

The location and merchandising strategy of Wal-Mart's newest Neighborhood Market store in the St. Petersburg, Fla., suburb of Pinellas Park says a lot about how a retail format introduced a [...]

The pharmacy at Wal-Mart is in for some major changes in the coming years as the retailer looks to upgrade its prescription drug departments in keeping with a broader strategy [...]

ORLANDO -- Walgreens' pursuit of growth in recent years has caused the company to open in-store clinics, create new health services and even pursue acquisitions. Now, the company best known [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Price long has been Wal-Mart's primary competitive advantage, so it was to be expected the company would go back to the pricing well when it came time [...]

When Sam's Club refreshed and expanded a store in Winterville, N.C., earlier this year, the key component of the project was the addition of a pharmacy. Sam's Club has been [...]

Publix Supermarkets operations are confined to the Southeastern United States, but that hasn't stopped the company from achieving a national reputation as a premier food retailer. Its 929 stores are [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- It is clear that the retail industry, and the discipline of merchandising in particular, has evolved to the point where achieving success is determined by those organizations [...]

KANSAS CITY, MO. -- The future of health care at Wal-Mart will involve a heavy reliance on all things electronic as a means to improve overall efficiency, access to higher-quality [...]

HIGHLAND VILLAGE, Texas -- Were it not for the sign on the front of Wal-Mart's newest store in this community northwest of Dallas, customers might think they were in another [...]