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Supermarket Rx holding steady, FMI cites whole health efforts, technology.(survey)(Survey)
WASHINGTON -- Supermarket pharmacies posted few performance gains last year, with median prescriptions filled per day unchanged from 2004, at 120, and prescription revenues holding steady at 9 percent of total store sales.
But the segment maintained its financial stability in 2005 in the face of two major regulatory challenges: preparing for Medicare Part D and complying with new laws restricting the sales of cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine.
In its just-released "Supermarket Pharmacy Trends 2006," the Food Marketing Institute attributed the stable performance in part to two factors: an increased focus on electronic prescribing, robotics and other …
