Grocery Pharmacy & Health Care

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Intense competition for pharmacy business here is driving supermarket pharmacies to offer incentives like free Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Kleenex to customers who transfer or fill a new prescription.One food chain here, Bi-Lo, even offered a ham to each customer who took out a new prescription last Thanksgiving.In addition to Bi-Lo, which has about 20 stores in the Chattanooga area,

byPeter Malbin