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The one-two juggernaut of the pharmacist and an in-store dietitian could make a big impact on consumers as they consider where to do the bulk of their grocery, health and [...]

How can retailers best optimize health and wellness in their stores? Where are the opportunities and where are potential headwinds? In the weeks leading up to the 2018 Consumer Healthcare [...]

Hamacher Resource Group's New Item Review team, in its ongoing evaluation of new products, evaluated a whopping 2,685 health, beauty and wellness items in 2016. Basing their analysis on five [...]

The VMS category is mercurial. When a group of ingredients declines, another sector emerges or experiences a renaissance based on consumer interest. As a result, VMS manufacturers say that keeping [...]

Earlier this year, Brandperx announced the launch of its latest Bump Bag, a product sample bag targeting soon-to-be moms and hand-delivered to them by their trusted OB / GYN providers. [...]

HYLAND'S Hyland's has carved out a nice brand block in the baby set that really captures moms' attention as they are looking for appropriate remedies for their babies. And from [...]

Are retail pharmacies late to the party when it comes to the health wearables market? The booming category, which includes such devices as activity trackers and chronic pain relief devices, [...]

How do retailers get an edge in the all-important OTC medications market? Finding the answer, according to a number of industry officials, may be one of the most important factors [...]

The retail clinic space represents a fast-growing industry that hasn't even scratched the surface in terms of its full potential given constant market pressures to make health care more affordable, [...]

Two years ago, CVS Pharmacy made the bold decision to walk away from tobacco. It was the right move for a lot of reasons, but the fact remained: There was [...]

There were more than 2,400 health, beauty and wellness items launched in 2015. And if historical percentages play out, of those less than 10% will emerge as successful brands with [...]

The entirety of Rite Aid's marketing message can really be broken down to just two simple, yet powerful words: wellness empowerment. It is those two words that have helped inform [...]

'Our goal is to create an experience unmatched in this industry by focusing on 'Well.'' With those 15 words, spoken at Walgreens' annual meeting, Walgreens president and CEO Greg Wasson [...]

Happy days are here again! Consumer confidence rebounded 1.6 points in April from a dip in March, according to the Consumer Confidence Index, despite the fact that high-gas-price stories are [...]

WOODMERE, Ohio -- With its grand opening held here in early June, the latest 5,000-sq.-ft. Max-Wellness location marks the second in the Cleveland market and fourth overall--the other two Max-Wellness [...]

A down economy certainly has made for some choppy waters for niche suppliers in the past year, especially as the downturn in shopper dollars exposed a barnacle that had been [...]

NEW YORK -- The value of niche is in the customer that a niche manufacturer brings through the door. Sometimes it's measured in incremental opportunity, such as a prophylactic acne [...]

One of the greatest desires for a retailer in evaluating new products is innovation. But it's more than that--they also want to do business with vendors familiar with the terms [...]

It was more than a week before Thanksgiving by the time CVS successfully converted all the operating systems in the 1,200-plus Eckerd stores and the distribution network it acquired from [...]

It's about fundamentals. Back to basics. These are the words that were dropping out of the mouths of Brooks executives as they began to absorb the challenge of corralling and [...]

LOS ANGELES -- It was almost fitting that the clouds parted on the day of Rite Aid's annual meeting, held here for the first time, making for a sunny day [...]

When the last kid has left the roost, the parents they leave behind are often termed empty nesters. Calling them this implies there may be something missing from their lives, [...]

Although one-quarter of Rugged Traditionalists are women, this lifestyle is defined more by older men who value traditional, old-school gender roles: one-income families where the wife makes all the purchasing [...]

New YORK -- The winds of change have begun to fill the generic drug industry's sails. Driven by expiring patents on big-selling blockbuster drugs and the frantic search for lower-cost [...]

It's the early days of the wearables sector and already l-in-5 consumers own a wearable device, and l-in-10 use that device every day. And judging by the market dynamics that [...]

Consumers want results from the dietary supplement category. That's great news for retailers who benefit from the category's steady sales, good margins and strong price points. But it also puts [...]

It's about striking a balance when it comes to marketing and merchandising within the intimacy health space. Suppliers in the space have cautioned retailers against sexual health promotion efforts that [...]

There is just one secret mass retailers looking to steal share from specialty pet shop operators need to know --and it's related to one of the biggest consumer trends right [...]

Expect more shoppers sniffling in your stores. While this year is not the worst flu season in the past decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shared during a [...]

The success of Rite Aid's Wellness store is in the experience. It's welcoming. It's engaging. And across various touchpoints throughout the store, it helps guide Rite Aid customers toward however [...]

It may be more than just coincidence that Walgreens has decided to really blow the doors off of retail pharmacy in the same city that screams horsepower every year over [...]

WILTON, Conn. -- As more consumers incorporate social media sites and other online shop-assist tools into their daily shopping routines, the concepts defining traditional category management--category schematics and optimized facings [...]

Rite Aid's road back to black still is long and pocked with challenges, but it's by no means tenuous or uncertain. That's because Rite Aid, under the tutelage of chairman [...]

Banking on pandemics is a bit like betting green at the Roulette table. It doesn't hit often, but when it does hit, there's a big payout. By all accounts, it's [...]

What is the fastest route between two Walgreens business units? If your first instinct was to Google the answer, you're halfway there. That's really the learning that Sona Chawla, SVP [...]

On the following pages, you'll find a list of 30 products--all recently launched or about to be launched--that caught the attention of Drug Store News' editors in a big way [...]

NEW YORK -- Retail crime is up. Economic conditions are poor. And while some may question how much recession economies spur otherwise-honest people to adjust their moral compasses to the [...]

In today's immediate-gratification market of retailing, niche brands aren't given the opportunity of the slow build that they may have been afforded in decades past--creating an environment that demands concrete [...]

1. Mum's the M-word? Pharmacy operators still are losing sleep over the 'M' words--Medicare, Medicaid and mail-order pharmacy. But developments on all three fronts could make 2008 a better year [...]

NEW YORK -- Rite Aid's brass may have lowered its earnings projections for its fiscal year 2008 last month, but management says the Brooks/Eckerd conversions are still on course, and [...]

Every year, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Total Store Expo is a showcase for innovation, and this year in San Diego certainly did not disappoint. Emerging technologies, the [...]

No matter where you stand with regard to Obamacare or the American Health Care Act that Congress is debating even now, one factor is certain: The cost of health care--and [...]

There is no question that one of the top nonprescription categories contributing to both sales and foot traffic right now is allergy, According to IRI data, sales of nasal sprays--the [...]

WASHINGTON -- While the establishment of a third class of drugs is by no means imminent, several pharmacy organizations advocated the creation of a new behind-the-counter class of drugs last [...]

It's a popping category, probiotics, in as much as the whole idea behind beneficial bacteria in the digestive tract is being heralded by the likes of Dannon in a comprehensive [...]

Niche in beauty is usually indicative of emerging trends--which according to the list below would suggest that both nostalgia and natural are hot right now. Following are some recently launched [...]