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DR. VIN GUPTA, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER AT AMAZON PHARMACY, recently spoke with Jeffrey Woldt, editor-in-chief of Chain Drug Review and Mass Market Retailers on the company's efforts to reinvent retail [...]

How seriously should signs of obsolescence shown by the chain drug store business model as currently constituted be taken? If one listens to recent comments by industry leaders, the question [...]

It should come as no surprise that, despite being a global leader in the development of innovative treatments and cutting-edge pharmaceutical products, the U.S. health care system has serious deficiencies [...]

Q&A Chip Davis, president and chief executive officer of the Healthcare Distribution Alliance, recently sat down with Chain Drug Review's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Woldt, to discuss such topics as gearing up [...]

DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Everything is on the table as Walgreens works to reenergize its front-end business. As part of a larger review of corporate assets, operations and strategy, the drug [...]

PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The National Association of Chain Drug Stores will move from strength to strength when Kevin Host succeeds Mike Wysong as the organization's chairman during the NACDS [...]

Dan O'Connor is known for helping retailers and CPG companies look beyond immediate concerns and instead focus on what will come next. An executive in residence at the Harvard Business [...]

The National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation stands on a strong record of accomplishment as it prepares for its annual fundraising dinner, which will be held in August in [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- In the realm of health and wellness, the endpoint is where Walmart begins. After first gaining a thorough understanding of patients, customers and their needs, the company [...]

Randy Edeker sees difficult days ahead for community pharmacy. Hy-Vee's executive chairman, who will retire in August after 12 years at the helm of the company, believes that a number [...]

The sudden, unexpected demise of Walmart Health marks the end of one phase of the retailer's drive to enhance access to care, improve patient outcomes and lower costs, and the [...]

Expect to see further significant changes at Walgreens Boots Alliance in the days ahead. Chief executive officer Tim Wentworth, who joined the company just six months ago, has laid the [...]

At the beginning of the month, retail pharmacy advocates were engaged in a full-court press to convince members of Congress, who were locked in a protracted battle over federal spending [...]

'The future is purchased by the present,' wrote Samuel Johnson in one of his essays for The Rambler. That idea was reflected during a panel discussion at last month's FMI [...]

Like most major retailers, CVS Pharmacy has entered the media business with the intent of broadening and deepening consumer engagement, working with CPG companies to better serve shoppers and grow [...]

When the history of Doug McMillon's tenure as chief executive officer of Walmart is written, the central theme is sure to be the transformation of the company from one entrenched [...]

Most retailers talk a lot about the customer-centric imperative; CVS Health is doing something about it. In recent years, the company has been on a journey to strengthen the connective [...]

DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Walgreens Boots Alliance has spent the last several years assembling the components of a vast health care ecosystem, one that promises to enhance patient access, improve outcomes [...]

PALM BEACH, Fla. -- When succession plans for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores' chairmanship were disrupted by an executive change at Rite Aid earlier this year, the group [...]

As the start of a new year approaches, long-standing trends are raising the stakes for big pharmacy operators and other companies with the ambition to re-engineer a health care system [...]

Retail pharmacy has taken a beating in the press recently. Mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS News and PBS, covered labor actions undertaken by [...]

Speaking last month at the Health Equity Summit presented by Kearney and Chain Drug Review, Dr. David Ansell brought the vexing problem of persistent health disparities in the U.S. into [...]

The announcement that Target will shutter nine stores in four major metropolitan areas later this month --due to safety concerns related to theft and organized retail crime--is another red flag [...]

The health care ecosystem faces major challenges--how to enhance health outcomes through more equitable access to care, while addressing rising costs. Part of the answer is improving health equity, a [...]

By shifting the emphasis from treatment to prevention, the U.S. health care system can help people lead better lives, reduce health disparities and rein in massive expenditures that forestall investment [...]

Chip Davis, president and chief executive officer of the Healthcare Distribution Alliance, recently spoke with Chain Drug Review editor-in-chief Jeffrey Woldt on the pharmaceutical distribution industry's critical function as it [...]

Woonsocket, R.I. -- The future of health care in this country will center on ecosystems that span the continuum of care. A number of entities, including companies with roots in [...]

The abrupt end of the Roz Brewer era at Walgreens Boots Alliance and appointment of Ginger Graham as interim chief executive officer serves as a lens for bringing into focus [...]

One of the most noteworthy aspects of the 10th iteration of NACDS Total Store Expo, which was held last month in San Diego, was the forward- and outward-looking orientation exhibited [...]

The balance of this year and the first months of 2024 will be a time of testing and potential transformation for retail pharmacy. Several pivotal questions, some of which have [...]

President Joe Biden earlier this month unveiled a series of measures designed to help rein in high health care costs, which constitute a heavy financial and psychological burden for many [...]

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Walmart has taken several significant steps to heighten the impact of its pharmacists on the health and well-being of Americans. The moves, including higher compensation for those [...]

The outbreak of COVID-19 at the start of the year and subsequent efforts to control the virus created much uncertainty in the beauty care business, but did little to disturb [...]

Amazon has put another building block in place as it works to bring the experience of pharmacy customers fully into the digital era. Late last month the company unveiled a [...]

WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Jon Roberts seized the opportunities that came his way during a career that spanned 43 years, and, in the process, helped transform CVS Health from a regional [...]

Brian Nightengale, newly appointed president of community and specialty pharmacy and long-term care at Amerisource-Bergen and incoming chairman of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, recently sat down with [...]

The dispensing of mifepristone, one of two medications used sequentially to terminate pregnancy, has emerged as a very thorny problem for Walgreens, one that will, in short order, engulf other [...]

CVS Health's long anticipated push into primary care represents yet another milestone for the company, which in little more than three decades has transformed itself from a regional drug chain [...]

By now it has become a familiar refrain: Amazon is taking another step to extend its reach in the $4 trillion health care sector. Late last month [January], the company [...]

It is all but certain that many of the nation's retail pharmacy operators--including the two biggest, CVS Health and Walgreens Boots Alliance--will soon find themselves caught in the middle of [...]

No one knows for certain what the new year will bring for chain pharmacy operators. Prognostications about the course that the industry would take made at the start of 2020 [...]

WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- The combination of CVS Health and Aetna marks a new era in U.S. health care. Finalized in late November, the $69 billion deal paves the way for [...]

DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Roz Brewer has brought an analytical bent to Walgreens Boots Alliance during her first year as chief executive officer. Trained as a chemist at Spelman College, she [...]

NEW YORK -- L'Oreal USA's Active Cosmetics Division (ACD) has generated remarkable growth in recent years by positioning its science-driven brands at the nexus of health and beauty care. As [...]

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Author and consultant Jim Collins is perhaps best known for applying the concept of the flywheel effect to the business world. Introduced in his book Good to [...]

Amazon continues to turn up the heat in health care. Just four months after it agreed to acquire One Medical, a technology-powered primary care provider, the company has launched Amazon [...]

Implementing the strategy mapped out by CEO Roz Brewer, Walgreens Boots Alliance has steadily gained traction over the last 13 months. The latest evidence of the company's progress came early [...]

Much attention has been paid to the impact on the grocery market of Kroger's proposed $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons Cos. If the deal passes muster with antitrust regulators, it [...]

If recent history is any indication, Kroger Health's surprising decision to draw a line in the sand over what it characterizes as an unworkable PBM pricing model could well lead [...]

The United States devotes many more resources to health care than any other nation in the world. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, per capita health care [...]