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With myriad displays of Mudd crop tops and skimpy, whiskered denim shorts, the spring juniors department in JCPenney's Lewisville, TX store looks a lot like the wardrobe department for Not [...]

J.C. Penney, which put its Eckerd drugstore unit up for sale last October (Drug Topics, Nov. 3, 2003) is reportedly willing to break the country's fourth largest chain into two [...]

'We screwed it up.' You've got to love Allen Questrom. While he's always been a lovable kind of guy -- except to a few notable exceptions among his old pals [...]

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The success of Eckerd's store reconfiguration, rolled out at the beginning of the year, has boosted performance and led the chain to plan to reformat about 80 [...]

ACTON, Mass. -- LifeClips announced that its new Videotape to DVD Conversion Service is now available at Eckerd drug stores in the Tampa/Clearwater area. The LifeClips service enables consumers to [...]

Things are looking up at Eckerd. After a few disappointing quarters, the nation's fourth-largest drug chain appears to be headed in the right direction again. There's even renewed talk at [...]

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- With a new management team at the helm and a store improvement plan now in place, Eckerd has had a busy year, and many are taking note [...]

Competition in the drug channel among the largest chains is hot, but it's likely to get even hotter, according to some Wall Street analysts. Among the events likely to raise [...]

PLANO, Texas -- J.C. Penney Co. plans to close 50 department stores and an unspecified number of Eckerd drug stores as part of its ongoing effort to cut costs and [...]

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The efforts to develop more synergies between J.C. Penney Co.'s department stores and its Eckerd drug stores are beginning to pick up speed. One of the next [...]

On a day set aside for a general strike to protest the forceful seizure of Eli[acute{a}]n Gonzalez by federal agents, most large Miami employers took no sides but made sure [...]

Some 289 Eckerd drugstores will permanently display a closed sign as part of a plan by J.C. Penney Co., Plano, Texas, to slash costs. J.C. Penney, whose stock value has [...]

PLANO, Texas -- Jack Fleischer, president of the men's division of J.C. Penney, has stepped down from the position he has held for the past two years to accept a [...]

LARGO, Fla. -- In May 1993 Frank Newman was faced with a decision--stay at the helm of deep-discount drug chain F&M Distributors Inc. in Warren, Mich., a job he had [...]

LARGO, Fla. -- Eckerd has restructured responsibilities among its senior operations team and appointed a new head of merchandising and marketing as the most aggressive expansion program m the company's [...]

Eckerd Drugs wanted a prime corner in Bradenton so badly that it agreed to build a new bank branch there and give the bank an undisclosed amount of cash for [...]

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- When Jack Eckerd decided to buy three ailing drug stores in Florida in 1952, he set in motion a major retailing saga that continues to this day. [...]

CLEARWATER, Fla. - Eckerd Drug Company has restructured its merchandising department, putting all merchandisers under a single head and making all replenishment activities a separate function. The effort is aimed [...]

Turning the Tide at Eckerd Drug Early in 1990, veteran loss prevention director Lew Shealy took over as VP, Loss Prevention, at Eckerd Drug, a $3.5 billion chain based in [...]

Eckerd expansion in high gear CLEARWATER, Fla. - Flush with a healthy cash flow and a revitalized store network, Eckerd Drug is expanding more aggressively and adding improvements to enhance [...]

LARGO, Fla.--Eckerd's high-profile effort to strengthen its front-end business during the past year has overshadowed a pharmacy operation that ranks as one of the nation s largest and which the [...]

Eckerd Drug Co has found a relatively low-tech solution, setback thermostats, for high heating and cooling costs at its 1,700 stores. The company installed Lightstat thermostats that automatically cut back on heating or cooling when store lights are extinguished. The thermostats have no clocks, so they do not require batteries or need to be programmed., CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Eckerd Drug Co., like most retail store chains, is always looking to improve the bottom line. Several years ago, the chain of 1,700 drug stores began searching [...]

In 1992, the Jack Eckerd Corporation underwent, as many retailers did, a year of change and uncertainty. To maintain its status as one of the nation's leading drug chains and [...]

|When I shop for products, I don't care about price. I only care about whether they are environmentally friendly and not tested on animals. I buy soap, cream, make up [...]

Retailing according to Turley Lessons of a successful LBO CLEARWATER, Fla.--Stew Turley has on occasion said that he has learned more about retailing in the past six years than in [...]

Eckerd opens photo lab #300 CLEARWATER, Fla. - Eckerd used radio promotions on free cameras and film to thank customers as it marked the opening of its 300th Express Photo [...]

Eckerd gets No. 2 store-count spot, sees big net growth Goal: stress markets where share is at or near top. Eckerd spent this past year vigorously buying, combining and selling [...]

A streamlined Eckerd Drug Co. is beginning to see results from its recent operational overhaul. For its second quarter (ended Jan. 26), the Clearwater, Fla.-based chain posted sales of $729 [...]