Mark Baum, senior vice president of industry relations and chief collaboration officer at FMI – The Food Industry Association, tells this week’s Video Forum about the ongoing drive to elevate the presence of supermarket operators and their suppliers in the household products, general merchandise, and health and beauty aids categories. He provides an update on
In this week’s Video Forum, Brian Nightengale, the new president of health care solutions at Inmar Intelligence, discusses how data-driven tools and insights can make community pharmacy and other aspects of health care more productive operationally, while at the same time enhancing patient care. Nightengale also addresses implementation of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act
Mike Wysong, the chief executive officer of CARE Pharmacies, tells this week’s Video Forum what his one-year term as NACDS chairman has taught him — about both the association and the industry. Wysong shares his views about the current state of the retail pharmacy business, as well as such important issues as PBM reform, expanding
This week’s Video Forum features Kroger chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen, MMR’s newly named Retailer of the Year. McMullen discusses some of the major initiatives that have helped make the company the nation’s premier operator of traditional supermarkets. In addition, he shares his thoughts about Kroger’s pending $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons Cos. (The article
In this week’s Video Forum, Sarah Davidson, executive vice president at ECRM, reflects on the company’s upcoming 30th anniversary in 2024. She discusses the evolution of ECRM over the course of the three decades since it was founded by Charlie Bowlus and — after the pandemic necessitated a shift to virtual sessions — plans to
In this week’s Video Forum, Dr. Vin Gupta, Amazon Pharmacy’s chief medical officer, talks about the potential for e-commerce providers to help bring down the cost of prescription medications. In addition to outlining various ways in which Amazon is trying to do just that, Gupta responds to those who contend that online pharmacies can’t provide
Pano Anthos, founder and managing director of XRC Ventures, tells this week’s Video Forum about how innovations by emerging technology companies will help make community pharmacies the first line of defense in health care. He also discusses the pace of change in technology, health care and retailing, as well as the attitude of consumers toward
In this week’s Video Forum, Pano Anthos, founder and managing director of XRC Ventures, talks about the investment firm’s work in the retailing, health care technology and CPG industries. He discusses XRC’s investment strategy, the criteria it uses to decide which start-up and early-stage companies to work with, and the sectors that he sees as
Dominique Harris, a partner at Kearney, tells this week’s Video Forum about the pressing need to address health disparities that impact millions of people in this country. She discusses some of the barriers to making high-quality health care available to all Americans and the role that pharmacies can play in alleviating the problem, as well
In this week’s Video Forum, Justin Honaman, head of worldwide retail and consumer goods go-to-market at Amazon Web Services continues his discussion of generative AI. Honaman talks about how the technology will change the way retail and CPG executives go about their business; some of the challenges involved in implementing generative AI; and how retailers
Justin Honaman, head of worldwide retail and consumer goods go-to-market at Amazon Web Services, tells this week’s Video Forum about how generative artificial intelligence will alter the retail and CPG industries. Among the topics Honaman addresses are the distinctions between artificial intelligence, machine learning and generative AI; how the new technology fits in with traditional
Walgreens is staking a large claim in the burgeoning retail media business. In this week’s Video Forum, Robert Tompkins, the drug chain’s group vice president and general merchandise manager for health and wellness, and Katie Vogt, senior director of client success at Walgreens Advertising Group, exchange insights about retail media’s growing impact on the self-care