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DEERFIELD, Ill. -- In November, Walgreens launched its new Rx Savings Finder, a simple-to-use digital tool designed to help customers save money on prescription medications. Rx Savings Finder finds free, [...]

TORONTO -- Shoppers Drug Mart has frozen prices on its 'no name' private label through the end of January. All told, Shoppers parent Loblaw Cos. has frozen prices on more [...]

WASHINGTON -- Increasing numbers of patients are using pharmacy discount cards to afford their medicines. Advertising for these programs is ubiquitous. 'Unfortunately, the existence and explosive growth of pharmacy discount [...]

A Lansing Meijer Pharmacy was the setting for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to sign House Bills 4348, 4351 and 4352. The legislation aims to lower the costs of prescription drugs for [...]

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of national pharmacy groups last month applauded the latest version of the bipartisan Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act, released by the Senate Finance Committee, which, according [...]

After several years of unsuccessful efforts by pharmacy advocates to persuade members of Congress and the executive branch to put an end to inequities in direct and indirect remuneration under [...]

BOSTON -- Several developments of significance for community pharmacy have occurred since Chain Drug Review assembled a panel of retailers and suppliers to discuss the profession in early August. A [...]

Rising commodity prices, increasing competition and a still wary consumer--all will mean challenges 1 for private label buyers in the second quarter of 2011 and beyond. PLBuyer's editorial board here […]

WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- CVS Health announced earlier this month that, in 2018, the company's pharmacy benefit management solutions blunted the impact of drug price inflation, achieving a negative 4.2% price [...]

WASHINGTON -- A proposed federal rule passing drug makers' discounts directly on to patients could be costly to pharmacies, say industry experts. Structural changes may be necessary to operationalize the [...]

A competitive retail trend to offer generic prescriptions at low-ball prices to consumers has turned into a juggernaut this year. One of the last major holdouts, CVS Caremark, finally stepped [...]

MUNDELEIN, Ill. - Those who follow retailing say Walgreens was in need of an upgraded store base after years of stamping out new stores in the same mold. Colin Watts, [...]

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 [...]

Generic prescription drug promotions are apparently here to stay. They have become so prevalent and expected in many places that they may eventually stop being regarded as temporary price reductions. [...]

WASHINGTON -- A recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sheds new light on the impact of rebates and fees collected by insurers and pharmacy benefits [...]

Border `farmacias': health line to Mexico EL PASO, Texas - For pharmacists who live along the nearly 2,100 miles of border that stretches from California to Texas, native Mexicans are [...]

As this is being written, Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued an injunction stopping, at least temporarily, further implementation of the [...]

NEW YORK -- As the government, insurers and others seek answers on how to control rising drug costs, the industry that produces those medicines finds itself paying a price of [...]

Customers paying out of their own pockets will get a break at Rite Aid, where the prices of some 200 prescription products were lowered in all 3,600 stores. The price [...]

CAMP HILL, Pa. -- Rite Aid Corp. has lowered prices on nearly 200 frequently purchased prescription drugs across all of its 3,600-plus units. The pricing move was heralded in stores [...]

Variable pricing is within retailers' grasp. But is it worth it? It may well represent the retail Holy Grail: the ability to maximize profit by charging each customer the maximum [...]

Chain drug stocks Current Previous close close Net % 52-week 52-week 12/12/00 11/17/00 change change high low Dow Jones Composite Average 3260.97 3240.77 +20.2 + 0.62 CVS 55.19 52.44 +2.75 [...]

WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- It may be difficult to be all things to all groups, but Matt Leonard makes the effort. As vice president of pharmacy merchandising for CVS Corp., Leonard [...]

CLIFTON, N.J. -- Women shopping along a one mile commercial stretch in this densely populated New Jersey suburb have long made do with the offerings of local merchants. But now, [...]

Beauty retailing has been transformed over the past few years by the exciting mix of creative merchandising and quickly rotating product selections offered at Bath & Body Works, Sephora and [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A CVS Corp. executive told a Senate panel examining the possibility of instituting a Medicare drug benefit that community pharmacies have little control over rising prescription prices, [...]

Consumers choose where to shop for a variety of reasons. Some seek convenience, some ambience, some service. For those looking for a bargain, reporters in Dallas, Los Angeles and New [...]

CHICAGO -- More than 60 law firms representing pharmacies in the brand name prescription drugs antitrust litigation have been awarded a total of $175 million. The award, which can be [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California seniors who lack prescription drug coverage will soon get a discount of 20 percent to 40 percent on their prescriptions, thanks to a new law set [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has given its health and beauty aids business a major boost by making the products available through its web site, Walmart.com. The site has [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WASHINGTON -- Policy-makers and pharmacy advocates sometimes call it 'alphabet soup.' But unlike chicken soup, the litany of acronyms swirling around the pharmacy reimbursement debate--such shorthand terms as [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Two national trade associations representing community pharmacies have filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop Delaware from implementing lower Medicaid reimbursement rates next month. The legal [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- What exactly is a 'multiple source drug?' That's the sticky and still unresolved question clouding the fractious legal dispute surrounding a federal plan to change the way [...]

WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- CVS Corp. will not match the actions of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retail pharmacy competitors in programs under which they are selling 30-day supplies of some [...]

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 [...]

NEW YORK -- Is drug store makeup as good as department store brands? ABC Television's 'Good Morning America' recently invited a group of women to its studio here to compare [...]

WASHINGTON -- Retail drug prices have increased 25% in the last five years, paced by Pfizer Inc.'s Lipitor and Celebrex, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). A recent GAO [...]

SAN DIEGO -- The wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) of drugs should be the basis of reform of Medicaid pharmacy reimbursements, a top official with the National Association of Chain Drug [...]

WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- CVS Health and Gilead Sciences have reached a deal to make Gilead's hepatitis C drugs, Harvoni and Sovaldi, the exclusive option for patients on its commercial drug [...]