Pharmacy

Walgreens Plans To Shutter 200 Locations
Walgreens Plans To Shutter 200 Locations
August 08, 2019  |  Retail

After its parent company announced plans earlier this year to close 200 stores in the United Kingdom, Walgreens is looking to shutter 200 locations in...

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CVS Membership Program Targets Millennials
CVS Membership Program Targets Millennials
August 05, 2019  |  Retail

After successful test runs in Boston, Philadelphia and Tampa, the CVS membership program CarePass will expand nationally with free delivery for an annual fee, CNBC...

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Analyst: PBMs Could Be ‘Disintermediated’ With PillPack
Analyst: PBMs Could Be ‘Disintermediated’ With PillPack
June 20, 2019  |  Healthcare

Stoking fears that Amazon will disrupt pharmacies, a CVS legal filing is reportedly aiming to prevent an ex-executive from working at the eCommerce retailer’s recently-acquired...

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Solving Healthcare’s $200M/Year Abandoned Rx Shopping Cart Problem
Solving Healthcare’s $200M/Year Abandoned Rx Shopping Cart Problem
May 31, 2019  |  Healthcare

Way back when, medicine used to be simple. Grind up, boil and drink a few roots here, employ a few leeches there. Pay a barber...

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CVS Rolls Out Same-Day Delivery For Prescriptions
CVS Rolls Out Same-Day Delivery For Prescriptions
April 05, 2019  |  Retail

To provide medications to customers in a matter of hours, CVS Pharmacy is rolling out same-day prescription deliveries. Shoppers can access the offering at 6,000...

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Walgreens Slammed On Earnings Miss As Drug Prices Weigh
Walgreens Slammed On Earnings Miss As Drug Prices Weigh
April 02, 2019  |  Earnings

Amid a competitive landscape that is intensifying along with margin pressures, drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. missed earnings estimates for the fiscal second quarter...

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The Whole Paycheck Tracker: Walmart vs. Amazon
The Whole Paycheck Tracker: Walmart vs. Amazon
March 08, 2019  |  Walmart Amazon whole paycheck

There is a possibly apocryphal story of Amazon’s early days (around 2001) where Founder Jeff Bezos was invited to Bentonville, Arkansas to discuss the possibility...

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ATMs For Medicine? That’s One Way Pharmacies Are Going Digital
ATMs For Medicine? That’s One Way Pharmacies Are Going Digital
March 04, 2019  |  Healthcare

Pharmacies and the delivery of prescription medication are both undergoing significant change, and much of the credit for that can be directly or indirectly attributed...

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Amazon Vet To Head Pharmacy Unit
Amazon Vet To Head Pharmacy Unit
February 28, 2019  |  Amazon

Amazon chose a 14-year company veteran to head up its new pharmacy business. Citing an internal company document, CNBC reported that Nader Kabbani is now “vice...

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