Rite Aid posted a Q4 loss in the drugstore's earnings report on March 31.
For meek Verna, life was church and studies and household chores and her weekend job clerking in the drugstore, with her grim-faced mother regulating every move.
The return of Express Scripts prescriptions and growth in generic prescription drugs dispensed saw the largest drugstore chain in the U.S. Walgreen post a growth in profits in the quarter ending February.
He finds the truck in a drugstore car park, hooks it and drives off in less than a minute.
In reality, the entire drugstore space looks generically weak.
Of course she can, but the time spent finding a drugstore in a new city and getting back to the hotel could be 30 minutes better spent preparing for a meeting or catching up on e-mails while a staff member delivers said toothbrush to your doorstep.
Still, the FDA decision moving the pill from behind the counter to drugstore shelves reflected a societal shift in the long battle over women's reproductive rights, marking a major milestone for those who believe all forms of birth control should be easy to buy.
Bernauer joined the drugstore chain in 1967 as a pharmacist and by 1994 had risen to CIO.
The Jean Coutu Group is the largest shareholder in Rite Aid, which purchased Coutu Group's U.S. subsidiary in 2007, but has been whittling down its holding in the U.S. drugstore chain.
The Walgreen acquisition is the not the first major drugstore takeover in recent years.
Harris plans a national rollout of Crazy Bones in ten of the largest cities in the country starting Apr. 15, hoping to sign up major drugstore chains and discount retailers.
In my 20 years in the East Lake neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, I have had the opportunity to talk to seniors and others in the area about childhood memories of a vibrant, living community: walks to the corner drugstore, fresh food at local markets, movies at the area theatre, and boat rides on the lake in the park.
Still, the cheaper Rite Aid becomes, the more attractive the Pennsylvania-based drugstore may become to CVS. The prospect of such an acquisition adds in another short-term layer of risk for CVS shareholders.
At the Rite Aid drugstore chain, the board installed Martin Grass, son of the founder, in the top job in 1995 but soon regretted it.
Amazon.com doesn't have anything formal yet, but it recently bought large stakes in Pets.com and Drugstore.com, the first of no doubt many e-commerce investments.
"If you wind up going to a drugstore clinic or even a different physician in the same practice, then consistent, personalized messages don't happen, " says Dr. Stratbucker.
As competition heats up between drugstore giants, Walgreen is expanding its presence in the Big Apple.
Drugstore officials say that because of the variation in plans, a pharmacist won't be able to tell patients whether they're getting Lipitor or atorvastatin (uh-tour'-vuh-statin) until they fill their prescriptions at the counter.
Yet locals know that that the most authentic lunch counter in town is hidden inside an unassuming drugstore.
Consumer, doctor and drugstore groups have lined up to support the Obama administration in this case.
In late 2001 Johnston used the muscle of his Osco and Sav-on drugstore banners, which combined made Albertsons the nation's fifth-largest drugstore company, to roll out dual-branded stores.
Hospitals are still allowed to sell drugs to in-patients but out-patients must take the prescription and go to a drugstore.
CNN: From Our Correspondent: The Great Korean Medical Fiasco
Walgreen, the nation's largest drugstore chain, saw a 21% jump in inventory in its last fiscal year, while its sales grew only 16%.
Black students in other Southern towns began to do the same, and lunch counter by lunch counter, drugstore by drugstore, department store by department store, Jim Crow was assaulted by the zealous actions of just a handful of students.
Walgreen , the U.S.' largest drugstore chain, saw a 21% jump in inventory in its last fiscal year, while its sales grew only 16%.
Seattle could even find itself left behind in the dot.com revolution, since local companies such as Amazon.com, HomeGrocer.com and Drugstore.com have staked their all on the consumer market just when the business-to-business dot.com market looks like an even bigger profit-maker.
In a written statement to NPR, Merced Farm Labor says Bautista was the one who decided to stop at the drugstore, and that he had refused the company's offer to call a doctor.
应用推荐