• WHEC News reports that Wegmans plans to open up a second Next Door Bar & Grill, adjacent to its new King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, store that is scheduled to open this May.
The first Next Door Bar & Grill opened in 2009 next to the Wegmans store in Pittsford, New York.
• Advertising Age reports that Post cereals have had a tradition of being “tossed from one conglomerate to the next and without a cohesive strategy.” But now that Post has become a stand-alone company after a spinoff from Ralcorp (which acquired it from Kraft four years ago), it is “striking out on its own, charting a fresh course as a stand-alone company with new marketing and retail plans with the aim of breaking through in the competitive $6.4 billion ready-to-eat cereal category ... The company's new management says the brands will benefit from more focus and is planning a multi-pronged attack to correct what it says Ralcorp did wrong. Plans include more-aggressive marketing and promotional spending, increasing social and digital efforts, beefing up sales staffing and putting more emphasis on PR, according to regulatory filings.”
• The Associated Press reports that Walgreen and a number of independent drugstores “are investing in a nationwide push to give pharmacists a chance to work more with patients to improve care and cut costs.
“The drugstores have invested in RxAlly, a Leesburg, Va., private company that is launching a network involving 20,000 pharmacies focused on better care coordination. The network aims to help pharmacists work more with patients in several ways. That includes coordinating prescription refills, making sure the drugs a patient takes don't conflict or talking to a patient about the importance of taking medicines correctly, according to a statement from RxAlly.”
The first Next Door Bar & Grill opened in 2009 next to the Wegmans store in Pittsford, New York.
• Advertising Age reports that Post cereals have had a tradition of being “tossed from one conglomerate to the next and without a cohesive strategy.” But now that Post has become a stand-alone company after a spinoff from Ralcorp (which acquired it from Kraft four years ago), it is “striking out on its own, charting a fresh course as a stand-alone company with new marketing and retail plans with the aim of breaking through in the competitive $6.4 billion ready-to-eat cereal category ... The company's new management says the brands will benefit from more focus and is planning a multi-pronged attack to correct what it says Ralcorp did wrong. Plans include more-aggressive marketing and promotional spending, increasing social and digital efforts, beefing up sales staffing and putting more emphasis on PR, according to regulatory filings.”
• The Associated Press reports that Walgreen and a number of independent drugstores “are investing in a nationwide push to give pharmacists a chance to work more with patients to improve care and cut costs.
“The drugstores have invested in RxAlly, a Leesburg, Va., private company that is launching a network involving 20,000 pharmacies focused on better care coordination. The network aims to help pharmacists work more with patients in several ways. That includes coordinating prescription refills, making sure the drugs a patient takes don't conflict or talking to a patient about the importance of taking medicines correctly, according to a statement from RxAlly.”
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