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  • Fear and loathing along the consumer path to purchase 2016

    President Donald Trump — nobody saw that coming.

    Except maybe one man Drug Store News interviewed for our January 2011 cover story: Stewart “Stewie Rah-Rah” Rahr, the free-wheeling billionaire-philanthropist and former owner/founder of Kinray, the largest privately held drug distribution company at the time he sold it to Cardinal Health for some $1.3 billion.

  • HSI Professional to expand distribution to retailers

    MIAMI, Fla. -- Beauty products brand HSI Professional is planning to expand distribution of its styling tools and hair care products to brick-and-mortar retailers.

  • NRF: How election results will impact these critical retail issues

    The results of yesterday's elections will affect a number of issues facing retailers, including infrastructure, tax reform, trade, immigration, labor and health care. 
        

  • Walgreens, Vitamin Angels celebrate 100 million lives changed

  • Dollar General to build massive new distribution center

    Dollar General is working out details to construct a $91 million distribution center in Orange County, N.Y.
     
    The chain is eyeing the creation of a 750,000-square-foot distribution hub on a 100-acre site in the town of Florida, N.Y., the Albany Business Review reported.   

  • Early projections on how elections will impact chain pharmacy

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Even as the final votes were being tallied, Steven Anderson, president and CEO of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, on Wednesday issued an analysis ascertaining how the results of this year's Congressional races would impact the issues pertinent to retail pharmacy.

    The overall consensus: 2016 was a good election. Retail pharmacy can continue to count on a number of Congressional leaders to continue their support of the industry on several issues, including provider status, generic drug access and reimbursement.

  • Dollar General to debut convenience-store format

    Dollar General is planning to unveil a smaller-store concept designed around convenience.
     
    The new format, reportedly to be called DGX,  is due to open in early 2017, with a unit in downtown Nashville, and another in Raleigh, North Carolina.   

  • Fruth Pharmacy rolls out genetic testing

    POINT PLEASANT, W. Va. -- Fruth Pharmacy has launched a new pharmacogenetic program for patients, which includes a genetics test to reduce the potential for adverse drug reactions.

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