Content about Rob Eder

November 14, 2011
DSN From The Blogs: Ideas are your products, too

Ideas are just as important to a winning company’s overall success as the products and services it sells. So, what’s your company doing to create a culture where the ideas that create your products and services are as important as the products themselves?

November 4, 2011
Seniors tend to ‘get the point’

I know this older guy at my gym — I call him “The Professor,” mostly because he used to teach journalism, but also because it’s more fun to say and easier to remember than his actual name.

October 19, 2011
DSN guest moderates Congressional briefing

The Drug Store News Group editor Rob Eder moderated a special Congressional briefing hosted by the American Association of Homeopathic Pharmacists on Sept. 27 for U.S. House of Representatives staffers.


October 19, 2011
Mr. Eder goes to Washington

I’m not going to lie about it. The first thing I thought as I checked into the U.S. Capitol on official business for the story that appears at the bottom of this page was: “Wow, this is pretty cool.”


September 12, 2011
The flip side of the ride back from Boston

Somewhere along the road back from Boston, DSN publisher Wayne Bennett and I looked at each other and realized that the previous 24 hours or so had been some of the most productive time we had enjoyed at a trade show in quite a while.

August 1, 2011
Fourth annual Retail Clinician Education Congress brings together retail healthcare professionals

This year’s fourth annual Retail Clinician Education Congress kicked off on Monday, bringing together hundreds of retail healthcare professionals to network, receive exclusive accreditation and honor those providers and key executive leaders whose work throughout the year has distinguished them among their peers in retail health care.

July 25, 2011
Walgreens' Joe Magnacca walks DSN.TV 
through the company’s HOTTEST new store

In an exclusive video store tour, Walgreens president of daily living products and solutions Joe Magnacca walks Drug Store News editor Rob Eder and the DSN.TV cameras through the new Duane Reade flagship store at 40 Wall St

July 8, 2011
Lansinoh positions Momma for U.S. launch

Drug Store News editor-in-chief Rob Eder interviewed Lansinoh Labs VP sales Michelle McLaughlin in Boston at NACDS Marketplace about the company’s leading position in the natural feeding category, and an exciting new line of products from Europe, which Lansinoh acquired this year and currently is launching to U.S. retailers.

July 8, 2011
Walgreens’ Joe Magnacca walks DSN.TV through the company’s HOTTEST new store

In an exclusive video store tour, Walgreens president of daily living products and solutions walks Drug Store News editor Rob Eder and the DSN.TV cameras through the new Duane Reade flagship store at 40 Wall St.

July 8, 2011
Walgreens’ Joe Magnacca walks DSN.TV through the company’s hottest new store

In an exclusive video store tour, Walgreens' president of daily living products and solutions Joe Magnacca walked Drug Store News editor Rob Eder and the DSN.TV cameras through the new Duane Reade flagship store at 40 Wall St.

June 26, 2011
Kozy Shack makes its way to retail with Coffeehouse Blends, SmartGels

Available now for the food service industry — but coming soon to a major retailer — is Kozy Shack's new Coffeehouse Blends pudding. The gluten-free treat comes in three flavors: caffe latte, cappuccino and caramel macchiato.

June 26, 2011
Lansinoh debuts new Italian Momma brand

Drug Store News editor-in-chief Rob Eder interviewed Lansinoh Labs VP sales Michelle McLaughlin here at NACDS Marketplace about the company’s leading position in the natural feeding category, and an exciting new line of products from Europe, which Lansinoh acquired this year and currently is launching to U.S. retailers.

February 18, 2011
Time to ‘smah-ten up’

“Smah-ten up, Ee-dah.” Loosely translated from deep “Mainer-ese,” that means, “smarten up, Eder.”


It’s a voice from my childhood, an old coach and counselor from summer camp, Tobias Woodworth. I called him Toby. He called me “Ee-dah.”


Stuck with me and all my other quasi-incorrigible New York City friends, Toby found himself saying, “smah-ten up!” an awful lot. It could mean anything from “you’ve got two strikes — protect the plate” to “put down that rock.”


February 1, 2011
DSN takes lead from ‘King of All Media’



It appears that even the “King of All Media” Howard Stern gets his news from Drug Store News. Traffic on the site spiked in late December when a DrugStoreNews.com story made it into Stern sidekick Robin Quivers’ daily news broadcast during the Thursday, Dec. 16 show. The Stern Web page also linked to the story under the “It’s Time for Robin’s News” section in the rundown for the satellite radio program’s show (“Use lanolin on your cracked nipples” at HowardStern.com/Rundown.hs).


January 5, 2011
Collaborative care alchemy: Pharmacists + nurses = gold



Last month, the American Journal of Managed Care published a review of more than 40 years worth of studies from various medical journals that demonstrated that the best way to improve adherence is to get patients to talk to the store pharmacist; the second-best way is to get them to talk to a nurse before they leave the hospital.


August 2, 2010
Nearly 500 practitioners gather for third annual Retail Clinician Education Congress

The third annual Retail Clinician Education Congress kicked off here Monday, attracting nearly 500 nurse...

July 18, 2010
Marketplace on DSN.TV

For the fourth year, DrugStoreNews.TV reported from the show floor at NACDS Marketplace 2010, capturing...

February 18, 2010
Walgreens’ deal for Duane Reade: The chain that would be king in the town that never sleeps

Is the merger agreement between Walgreens and Duane Reade another sign of rampant chain drug...

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