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Article: Slow prescription sales puzzle chain executives.
- Article from:
- Chain Drug Review
- Article date:
- July 29, 1991
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Slow prescription sales puzzle chain executives
CDR Roundup--What's happened to prescription drug sales?
Since mid-May, prescription sales have softened significantly, giving once-complacent chain drug store executives considerable cause for concern.
Though reluctant to speak for the record, most chain drug people acknowledge that, while prescription drugs continue to record strong month-to-month sales increases, those increases are not as large as they were earlier this year.
More specifically, most drug chains have seen the monthly rate of increase decline by from 3 to 6 points since April. Thus, a drug chain that had been posting a ...