Monthly Retailer Category Tips — Skin Care
by Cat Renwick, category analyst, part of Monthly Retailer Category Tips While independent pharmacies tend to excel in therapeutic skin care items, don’t overlook the advantages to your business of serving consumers looking for skin care products offering beauty benefits. These product types become part of a consumer’s skin care routine/regimen, which means recurring, additional basket […]
HRG’s Wendland Presents CE for Cencora’s Good Neighbor Pharmacy ThoughtSpot
Waukesha, Wisconsin – July 9, 2024 – Dave Wendland, vice president, strategic relations, and member of the HRG owner group, will be presenting a continuing education (CE) session, “The Often Untapped Gold Mine: Maximizing Front-End Sales,” for Cencora’s upcoming Good Neighbor Pharmacy (GNP) ThoughtSpot conference, July 24-27, in Orlando, FL. The CE session will be […]
Is intelligence becoming artificial?
by Dave Wendland, vice president strategic relations, as seen in America’s Pharmacist Dispensing medications is no longer enough to sustain a profitable independent pharmacy. As prescription and dispensing costs have increased and reimbursement rates have declined, introducing expanded patient care services is necessary for retail pharmacies to not only fill a market void, but also improve […]
HRG Promotes Hill to IT Manager
Waukesha, Wisconsin — July 2, 2024 — HRG has promoted Steve Hill to IT manager. Hill has been with HRG since 2019 and just last year was elevated to PC development/technical analyst lead. In Hill’s new role, HRG’s software developers and network teams will report to him, as well as IT interns. He will be […]
Single Source of Truth: Utilizing AI for data capture efficiencies
This blog series about a single source of truth for product content is based on the webinar, Let’s Get Digital, presented for the CHPA Academy in March 2024. by Lisa Lopez, HRG data assets manager, part of the Single Source of Truth blog series Data is captured many different ways and artificial intelligence (AI) is getting […]
How To Take The A-I-M Approach To Leadership
By Dave Wendland, for Forbes Agency Council, as appeared on Forbes.com Much has been written about approaches to leadership and organizational effectiveness. None are necessarily incorrect; however, there is no one-size-fits-all approach, nor a magic pill. Rather, leadership begins with purpose or aim. While both of these words can be defined as “what one intends to accomplish […]
Expert Space Management
From the desk of Colleen Volheim, category research and analysis manager, for the Focus on Fixtures blog series In the retail industry, space management is a term often associated with optimizing the space within a store for sales. That means departments, displays, and products are merchandised in ideal areas so customers can easily find and purchase what […]
Retailers must keep pace with technological change
by Dave Wendland, vice president strategic relations, for Chain Drug Review Consumer behavior in the foreseeable future will likely continue to be shaped by economic uncertainty and access to new technological advances. Meanwhile, retailers will be met with a variety of competitive forces, ever-changing shopper preferences, retail media network evolvement, omnichannel demands, and the risks and […]
Single Source of Truth: Data governance
This blog series about a single source of truth for product content is based on the webinar, Let’s Get Digital, presented for the CHPA Academy in March 2024. by Lisa Lopez, HRG data assets manager, part of the Single Source of Truth blog series How data is formatted, consumed, stored, and dispersed both internally and externally […]
HRG’s Wendland Presents CE for McKesson ideaShare
Waukesha, Wisconsin – June 18, 2024 – Dave Wendland, vice president, strategic relations, and member of the HRG owner group, will be presenting a continuing education (CE) session, “Add Shelf-Life to Your Business: Recommended Practices for Pharmacy Inventory Management,” for the upcoming McKesson ideaShare conference, June 23-26, in New Orleans, LA. Due to the popularity […]