May 24, 2021 by David Pinto
CVS, David Pinto, mental health, The New York Times
2021, Issue 05-24-2021, Issues, Opinion
On a recent Monday in May, The New York Times ran a story in the paper’s Business section appropriately titled “Will the Future of Therapy Be at the Drugstore?” The article dealt primarily with CVS’ apparent decision to test the availability of mental health specialists within the retailer’s MinuteClinic nonemergency health care facilities in 13
April 19, 2021 by David Pinto
David Pinto, Walgreens
2021, Issue 04-19-2021, Issues, Opinion
Walgreens has inoculated hundreds of thousands of Americans against COVID-19 this year using the vaccine developed by Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech. But the pharmacy chain has not been following guidance from federal health officials about the timing of second doses. — New York Times, April 6, 2021 It has become fashionable of late for the
March 22, 2021 by David Pinto
David Pinto, NACDS
2021, Issue 03-22-2021, Issues
Spring is here. Why doesn’t the breeze delight me? Stars appear. Why doesn’t the night invite me? — Larry Hart It has long been the belief in this space that the National Association of Chain Drug Stores is the most relevant retail business association in the United States. Our reasons are too complex, varied and
February 22, 2021 by David Pinto
David Pinto, Retailer of the Decade, Walmart
2021, Issue 02-22-2021, Issues, Opinion
After prolonged debate and careful consideration, the editors of MMR have determined that Walmart be recognized as the publication’s Retailer of the Decade for the 10-year period that ended on December 30, 2020. (A special section detailing Walmart’s decade will appear in the March 22 issue of MMR.) In many ways, this was not a
January 25, 2021 by David Pinto
Annual Meeting, David Pinto, NACDS
2021, Issue 01-25-2021, Issues
Editor’s note: This editorial was written prior to NACDS’ decision to hold this year’s Annual Meeting as a virtual event. With the approach of February, the chain drug industry turns its collective eye toward April and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Annual Meeting, that traditional harbinger of the industry’s spring, time of renewal,
January 11, 2021 by David Pinto
David Pinto, H-E-B, Retailer of the Year 2020
2021, Featured Articles, Issue 01-11-2021, Issues, Leading Headlines, Retail News
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — For the first time in its 35-year publishing life, the editors of MMR have chosen not one but two Retailers of the Year. One of the retailers chosen is — no surprise here — Target, one of America’s two premiere discount retailers. The other — equally unsurprising — is H-E-B, the
January 11, 2021 by David Pinto
Chain Drug Review, CVS Health, David Pinto, Larry Merlo, Lifetime Achievement Award, MMR
2021, Issue 01-11-2021, Issues
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — MMR’s sister publication Chain Drug Review has honored Larry Merlo, chief executive officer of CVS Health, with its Lifetime Achievement Award. It was not a difficult decision. In 10 years as CVS’ CEO, Merlo has remade the company, leading it into the next generation of health care while simonizing its appeal to
December 14, 2020 by David Pinto
Amazon, David Pinto, mass retailing, Target, Walmart
2020, Issue 12-14-2020, Issues
As 2020 finally and reluctantly gives way to 2021, the mass retail community is understandably optimistic about the year ahead. As background, much has changed, more perhaps than in any other 12-month period in the history of retailing in America. Foremost among these shifts in consumer shopping habits is the undeniable fact that online shopping,
November 30, 2020 by David Pinto
Amazon, David Pinto, pharmacy, Rx
2020, Issue 11-30-2020, Issues
It’s finally happened: Amazon has announced its intention of entering the pharmacy business. With that announcement, the potential disruption of the retail pharmacy business in America has become, in an instant, a very real possibility. Given Amazon’s well-documented ability to upset the settled order of things, coupled with the online retailer’s proven success rate in
November 16, 2020 by David Pinto
David Pinto, Emerson Group, mass retail, Scott Emerson, WSL
2020, Issue 11-16-2020, Issues, Opinion
Wednesday, October 7, 2020, will be remembered or fondly recalled by mass retailing aficionados as the day a microcosm of the mass retailing community assembled, virtually, to discuss the past, debate the present and predict the industry’s future. As background, the event was conceived, assembled and choreographed by Scott Emerson, founder and CEO of the
October 12, 2020 by David Pinto
Andrea Fallin, Annie Walker, David Pinto, WE
2020, Issue 10-12-2020, Issues
This is a story about a three-year-old group founded by several women business executives in 2017 to nurture talent and further the careers of women in the health care industry. The name of the group is WE, and among its founders is Andrea Fallin, a senior sales executive at Racher Press, publisher of MMR and
September 14, 2020 by David Pinto
David Pinto, John Standley, Rite Aid, Walgreens
2020, Issue 09-14-2020, Issues
As anyone who really cares already knows by now, John Standley has been named president of Walgreens. The appointment is both surprising and logical. Standley is a smart and savvy chain drug executive, having learned his way around the industry through many years of toil and a variety of challenges, most recently at Rite Aid,