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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Modest overall sales growth aside, pharmacy and the adjacent departments of health and beauty care are becoming increasingly important components of the value proposition at Sam's Club. The warehouse club [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The rollout of Wal-Mart's $4 generic drug program drove strong customer traffic to the retailer's pharmacies, but it wasn't enough to offset weakness in other areas and [...]

WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- A major promotion under way at 5,400 CVS stores nationwide is helping the retailer's ExtraCare card holders realize substantial savings and will reward one lucky winner and [...]

Although the 2004 School, Home and Office Products Association Show was dramatically smaller than it's been in prior years, and many of the industry's major suppliers were absent from the [...]

Too bad more categories don't turn in double-digit sales gains the way home diagnostics does. Since the early part of this decade it has been tough to pick a segment [...]

Analgesics, cough/cold and gastrointestinal products are major components of the OTC department, and ongoing developments during 1994 kept chain drug buyers busy managing these departments. The three categories combined delivered [...]

The OTC department continues to be a significant component of the chain drug industry's effort to position itself as the health care class of trade. Drug Store News research indicates [...]

Publix routinely makes strategic moves to enhance the customer experience in the pharmacy and health-and-wellness arena that are rooted in the customer service mindset that has made its supermarkets so [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Walmart stores have regained a familiar feeling this holiday season, and if senior executives are right, the increased promotional intensity will halt six consecutive quarters of declining [...]

Health and beauty suppliers to Wal-Mart soon will have a new means to grow their sales, as the nation's largest retailer embarks on a plan to reinvent its in-store television [...]

Wal-Mart last year may have slowed the pace of new store construction, but it moved full speed ahead with pharmacy and a range of other initiatives that position the company [...]

Few topics are as capable of stirring a national debate as prescription drug pricing--something Wal-Mart discovered last year when it launched the now infamous $4 generic drug program. Introduced in [...]

Wal-Mart this week is set to open a first-of-its-kind urban supercenter that has the potential to alter customer expectations of convenience and to serve as a vehicle for the company [...]

ORLANDO -- The ranks of the nation's independent pharmacists have thinned considerably during the past decade as managed care, drug wholesaler's annual trade show. Attendance at the trade show, the [...]

Florida is an ideal market for prescription drug retailers, thanks to its rapid growth and a population base with the nation's highest concentration of elderly residents. The state is already [...]

The pace of Rx-to-OTC switch activity during the coming year will be slower than the past two years, but that doesn't mean 1997 will be a year to relax. At [...]

In 1994 the feminine hygiene and family planning categories felt the impact of changing consumer behaviors and manufacturer pricing strategies. Both factors led to flat to minimal unit growth and [...]

The drug store's OTC department is the embodiment of the expression 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.' The blending of many interrelated, non-core OTC categories rounds [...]

Vitamins and herbal products were two of chain drug stores' fastest-turning categories during 1994, and 1995 promises to offer retailers equally strong gains. Widespread publicity about the health benefits of [...]