CORONADO, Calif. -- The Food Marketing Institute has unveiled a new video-based training program aimed at creating synergy between supermarket pharmacists and store managers. "Bridging the Gap: A Program in Pharmacist...
Supermarkets' health and beauty care and pharmacy departments acted quickly as three products formerly sold only by prescription, Rogaine, Nicorette and Zantac 75, all debuted over the counter this month.Though sales...
WASHINGTON -- Meijer Inc., Grand Rapids, Mich., is among several retailers that received thousands of nonworking prepaid phone cards, according to the USTelecard Association here. USTelecard said the retailer received...
Fifty million Americans have hypertension, yet only half are treating it. While that fact may be enough to make any pharmacist's blood boil, it also is offering supermarket pharmacists an opportunity to increase...
Supermarkets are waiting to see if prepaid phone cards will become the kind of collectible that some suppliers have tried to create.Kroger Co.'s 93-store Houston division has no immediate plans to enter the...
Shrinkage concerns are leading retailers to take extra precaution in choosing phone card merchandising programs.Many are offering the credit-card-size product, which some food chains reportedly have sold in...
SALT LAKE CITY -- As the trend toward home health care grows, stores like Health -n- Home, a new category killer supercenter by American Stores here, could play a significant role in the supermarket industry.At...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The American Pharmaceutical Association officially unveiled the Concept Pharmacy Learning Center, a hands-on display that highlights ways to improve patient drug therapy programs, at its annual...
Supermarkets are digging deeper into what was virtually unexplored terrain for them a decade ago: onetime prescription-only products that have gone over the counter.The OTC review process is far from new, but it's...
TOTOWA, N.J. -- Supermarket pharmacies grew impressively last year, according to new data released last week by IMS America here.The growth came in both prescription sales volume, up 18% to $4.98 billion, and the...