Buy tranadol!!

Independent Edge consists of a three-pronged solution, the first of which will help independents better manage their front-end business. By profiling the independent pharmacy customer, AmerisourceBergen uncovered a portfolio of front-end products that help generate foot traffic, and has designed a planogram that will best present those products. "We can't do it with 50,000 SKUs," Haas said. "If we narrow the SKUs to patient-careportfolios and aggregate that demand, what we do is raise the overall penetration in your pharmacies." Across 20 pilot test stores, the front-end strategy across OTC categories generated between a 9 percent and 21 percent revenue lift.
----

LAS VEGAS -- Celebrating the 25th anniversary of its pharmacy network Good Neighbor Pharmacy at its July trade show, AmerisourceBergen officially rolled out a new pharmacy platform called Independent Edge that has been designed to improve community pharmacy performance across three core metrics--revenue and profit, improved patient care capability and increased operations efficiency.

"This is really a co-investment in the community pharmacy future," Terry Haas, corporate senior vice president and president of AmerisourceBergen Drug, told a roundtable of reporters prior to the company's opening general session.

-----

Burnett, a former U.S. Navy Corpsman who graduated first in his class at the Naval Hospital Corps School in San Diego, began his career in pharmacy after being honorably discharged in 1955. After graduation from the University of Arizona school of pharmacy and stints with several independent and hospital pharmacies, he joined Fed Mart Corp. as a staff pharmacist, working his way up to regional supervisor.

During his tenure at Fed Mart, Burnett also earned a law degree from the University of San Diego in 1970. After a brief stint at practicing law, he became Fed Mart's vice president and general manager of phar macy, leading the growth of pharmacy at the chain to a 75-unit, high-volume operation that pioneered value-priced pharmaceuticals. He also founded his own independent chain, Save Mart.

-----

BOSTON -- Wholesale club pharmacy pioneer Charles "Charlie" Burnett, who over the past two decades has patiently built a major presence in retail pharmacy at club store giant Costco Wholesale, has won chain pharmacy's highest honor.

Burnett, Costco's senior vice president of pharmacy, was presented the Harold W. Pratt Award Aug. 14 during the closing dinner of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Pharmacy & Technology Conference. NACDS president and chief executive officer Steve Anderson presented the award to Burnett as his family-including his wife Barbara, daughter Vicky, son-in-law Mike and two grandchildren, Lizzie and Jake----looked on.

-----

New convenience for patient. New profits for pharmacy.

Rx.com now offers retail pharmacy the opportunity to compete with mandatory mail programs and, most importantly, to do it profitably. Available to all 10,000 pharmacies who use the PDX Pharmacy System, the Rx.com solution is now set to be rolled out by 15 pharmacy chains representing approximately 4,000 chain drug and supermarket pharmacies across the U.S.

An important benefit these pharmacies will reap is the retention of their personal relationships with their patients. Patients benefit, too, by gaining the choice of mail order while retaining the ability to speak directly to their pharmacist, get counseling, find out about drug interactions and get any questions about dosages--or anything else--answered by someone who knows them and their prescription history.

----