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Saturday night at NACDS Annual Meeting featured the Opening Celebration, supported by Mondelez International.

Despite temperatures nearing 100 on Saturday, the Cabanas at the Phoencian were busy with Strategic Exchange Appointments during the 2017 NACDS Annual Meeting.

Freshly prepared foods, nutritional drinks/supplements, cosmetics and frozen foods are the best opportunities for drug store retailers looking to cash in on customer impulse purchases at brick-and-mortar locations. For example, consumers are 9.4% more likely to purchase frozen foods on impulse in stores compared with online, Nielsen revealed in its inaugural “Understanding Today’s Omnishopper” report released last month.

Friday night at NACDS Annual Meeting 2017, attendees turned out for the First Night Party, sponsored by Pfizer, Edgewell, Hallmark and Kellogg's.

Crossmark held its party Friday night during NACDS Annual Meeting at the Sanctuary resort in Scottsdale, Ariz.

It is nothing short of obvious that without the membership there would be no NACDS. Yet a related concept that is more intriguing — and hopefully more inspiring — is that NACDS would not be as great as it is without the membership.

In June, The Compliance Team will be rolling out its latest accreditation module, titled Patient Centered Pharmacy Home, that examines the care coordination between primary care facilities and retail pharmacy. Drug Store News recently sat down with Sandy Canally, founder and CEO of The Compliance Team, to get a sneak peek at the new accreditation and the opportunity that represents for pharmacy.

Although the consumer packaged goods industry is still climbing the sales charts to record heights — the industry reached $797 billion in 2016 — the engines driving that growth are beginning to sputter, IRI and Boston Consulting Group reported last month as part of their latest growth leaders report, “CPG Growth Leaders - Strategic Analytics.” According to the report, dollar sales growth is at its lowest since 2011, coming in at just 1.4% versus the prior year.