Nonfoods Archive
CVS Finalizes Caremark Merger
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- CVS Corp. here completed its acquisition of pharmacy benefit manager Caremark Rx yesterday for $26.5 billion. ...
Nevada May Classify PSE as Prescription-Only
CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Nevada's Assembly Health and Human Services Committee conducted a hearing this week on a bill that would reclassify medicines containing pseudoephedrine, making them prescription-only. ...
Gillette Leads Nonfood Pacesetters
CHICAGO -- Information Resources Inc. released its "2006 New Product Pacesetters," a ranking of the year's most successful consumer packaged goods brands, yesterday. ...
Wal-Mart Withdraws Application for Banking Charter
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Caving in to an avalanche of criticism and governmental resistance, Wal-Mart Stores here on Friday withdrew its application for an industrial loan company charter, which would have allowed it to operate a banking entity. ...
Report: Wal-Mart Setting Stage for Banking Services
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The picture of Wal-Mart Stores' plans for expanding into financial services got muddier yesterday with the Wall Street Journal reporting that the retailing behemoth is renegotiating leases with its in-store banking tenants to give it more leeway in the future to offer mortgages, home-equity lines of credit and consumer loans. ...
New Pathmark Club Offers $4 Prescriptions
CARTERET, N.J. -- Pathmark Stores here is launching its Pharmacy Advantage Club, a program offering members a $4 co-pay for a 30-day supply on more than 300 generic medications. ...
At Housewares Show, Supermarkets Urged to Cross-Merchandise
CHICAGO -- During the International Home and Housewares Show here this week, experts told SN that the key for supermarkets to sell more kitchen items is to cross-merchandise them with related food items. ...
Rx School Teams With Rite Aid on Medication Therapy Management
PITTSBURGH -- The University of Pittsburgh's School of Pharmacy plans to develop its medication therapy management training -- developed in conjunction with Rite Aid, Camp Hill, Pa. -- putting it online and making it available to pharmacists across Pennsylvania, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review yesterday....
'Green' Housewares Consumers Growing in Importance: Mintel
CHICAGO -- So-called "green consumers" will grow in importance to the housewares market, said David Lockwood, director U.S. research, Mintel International Group, here, during the International Home and Housewares show here this week. ...
Kroger: Policy Is to Carry Plan B in All Stores
CINCINNATI -- Following an incident in Rome, Ga., where a Kroger Co. pharmacist declined to sell the over-the-counter Plan B contraceptive to a woman, and after activist criticism of the retailer, the company said Friday that its policy is to carry Plan B in all its stores. ...
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