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April 16, 2013
PoweRx Players: Profiles of the kings of retail pharmacy

Eighty-five percent. That’s roughly the combined market share for the companies that appear in the 2013 DSN PoweRx50, representing more than $190 billion in pharmacy sales and more than 51,500 stores, or more than 8-out-of-10 retail pharmacies in America, across all classes of trade, chains and independents. The indisputable Kings of Retail Pharmacy.

May 21, 2012
Northern focus

Retail pharmacy veteran Frank Scorpiniti officially assumed the role of CEO of Rexall Pharma Plus in February. Now that he’s settled in North of the Border, Scorpiniti talked with Drug Store News about his new role and his insights on the Canadian retail pharmacy market.

March 22, 2013
American Stores founder Sam Skaggs dies at 89

American Stores founder Sam Skaggs died of natural causes at his home Thursday, according to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune.

February 7, 2013
Cardinal Health develops patient-friendly heart health education program for community pharmacists

Cardinal Health announced it is providing free, downloadable materials to help community pharmacists educate patients about effective strategies for preventing cardiovascular disease.

December 19, 2012
Bartell, Coca-Cola sponsor Seattle ice skating event

Retail pharmacy chain Bartell Drugs and Coca-Cola's Northwest Region division will offer free ice skates and admission for the Winterfest program at the Seattle Center on Dec. 23 from mid-day to evening, the companies said Wednesday.

December 6, 2012
Rite Aid joins Surescripts' Clinical Interoperability Network

Retail pharmacy chain Rite Aid will deliver patients' immunization notifications directly to healthcare providers over the Surescripts Network for Clinical Interoperability.

October 9, 2012
Moving beyond dispensing and toward adherence

CVS Caremark is also working to reinvent the role of its retail pharmacists and is gaining share by focusing on customer service, greater adherence, increased access and patient 
care improvements.

July 30, 2012
Health guides: 
Personalizing customers’ health-and-wellness experience

Incorporated into the new store formats currently being rolled out by both Walgreens and Rite Aid is a new store associate position with the primary function of proactively engaging customers in the OTC aisle. Walgreens calls them Health Guides; Rite Aid calls them Wellness Ambassadors.

June 6, 2012
Rite Aid launches healthy skin campaign

Retail pharmacy chain Rite Aid is promoting healthy skin care as part of a partnership with the Skin Cancer Foundation, the retailer said Wednesday.

May 18, 2012
Q&A: Northern focus

Retail pharmacy veteran Frank Scorpiniti officially assumed the role of CEO of Rexall Pharma Plus in February. Now that he’s settled in North of the Border, Scorpiniti talked with Drug Store News about his new role and his insights on the Canadian retail pharmacy market.

December 16, 2011
N.Y. pharmacies get what many have asked for: a level playing field vs. mail order

Retail pharmacy has long fought for a level playing field when competing with mail order, and that's what N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo handed them last week.

October 17, 2011
Fright Aid: RAD offers thousands of Halloween-related items

Seven-in-10 Americans will celebrate Halloween, creating a $7 billion market, according to the National Retail Federation.

July 13, 2011
Foundation Care gets new office, warehouse space for pharmacy, distribution services

Retail pharmacy and specialty distributor Foundation Care has acquired a new office and warehouse space to accommodate new demand for its pharmacy and distribution services, the company said.

April 13, 2011
Katz Group names new COO

Retail pharmacy network Katz Group Canada has appointed Frank Scorpiniti as COO.

February 11, 2011
Congress nixing FSA rule changes is no surprise

It never made much sense to make health care less affordable under the Affordable Care Act — neither did the requirement of a prescription for a nonprescription remedy jive with proponents of flexible spending accounts. So it’s little wonder that the FSA rule changes were the first piece of ObamaCare to face a congressional axe, as was widely speculated just last week.

January 7, 2011
While parents turn away from vaccines, U.S. pharmacies make them more accessible

In 2011, refusing to inoculate children against dangerous illnesses like measles, whooping cough and even the flu, borders on child abuse. This story should go a long way toward keeping a lot of kids healthy by educating their misguided parents—good news for retail pharmacy, which continues to expand its presence as the local community destination for common vaccinations.

January 5, 2011
Making friends with pharmacy in the heart of Kinney Country

GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. — When you get north of Syracuse, N.Y., you enter a special part of Retail Pharmacy America known as “Kinney Country,” where people know their neighbors and everybody knows their neighborhood drug store.


December 7, 2010
PDX, HDS fuse automation, data with verification tool

FORT WORTH, Texas — Blending the power of one of the most widely used pharmacy automation systems with a massive database of prescribing physicians, two major pharmacy technology providers have unveiled a new partnership designed to give dispensing pharmacists immediate access to real-time prescriber data.


Retail pharmacy technology provider PDX and Healthcare Data Solutions announced the alliance in November. The goal, according to both companies, is to link users of the PDX Pharmacy System with a real-time prescriber verification process.


February 18, 2010
Medicaid without retail pharmacy: A recipe for disaster

Simply put, if you take a significant number of retail pharmacies out of the Medicaid...

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