Meet the Market this year represented more than 8,000 face-to-face prearranged appointments.

Executives from more than 20 different supplier companies were in attendance at the latest edition of the Mack Elevation Forum, held Friday, June 4, at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel in San Diego.

DSN beauty editor Antoinette Alexander recaps the top top new beauty items from the 2010 NACDS Marketplace conference in San Diego.

Japanese mega-retailer Aeon Co. has developed a new concept store called R.O.U., which focuses on 30-something female shoppers, Drug Store News sister publication Chain Store Age Japan reported. The company opened its first two locations in April at Aeon Tsudanuma Shopping Center in Shino City, Chiba Prefecture, and Aeon Lake Town Shopping Center, in Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture.

Drug Store News party at NACDS Annual 2010 in Palm Beach, Fla.

Revlon, First Dance and Colgate-Palmolive parties at NACDS Annual 2010 in Palm Beach, Fla.

The P&G Beauty Studio and Male Zone combined beauty and grooming services. It offered complimentary chair massages and hair blowouts, and promoted P&G's revamped Pantene line.

Incoming NACDS chairman Larry Merlo, his predecessor Andy Giancamilli and the organization's president and CEO Steve Anderson all reminded the roughly 2,000 retail and supplier executives, pharmacy educators, health industry experts and guests who made the trek to Palm Beach that the industry now operates in a time of unprecendented challenges to the healthcare system.

Duane Reade’s transformation continues to impress as the opening of a new store in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC boasts an expanded fresh food and grocery offering, giving the location a grocery-store look and feel.

Weis Markets' remodeled flagship Lewisburg, Pa., store has a fresher look and feel with an increased variety of products, an upgraded decor and an improved layout that provides more convenience for customers. The store also features a redesigned pharmacy and health-and-beauty care department; a new 30-seat cafe and coffee bar; and an increased selection of deli, produce and seafood products.

Giant Eagle is fast gaining a reputation for thinking outside of the box — or, rather, tinkering with the box — of supermarket pharmacy.

In this exclusive shopper insights video, sponsored by Wahl Clipper Corp., Drug Store News talks to men on the streets of NYC about how they groom, the items they use, and why.