Growing up, my family had a Saturday night tradition. Pizza for dinner accompanied by episodes of Classic Star Trek. This of course instilled in me a...
If you’ve been a frequent reader of this blog, by now you probably know that I tend to avoid big box stores whenever I can. Why? Well there are a...
Retail 101 will tell you that there are 3 major types of purchases. Planned, impulse and companion. We all know all about planned shopping. We go...
Words like reliable and honest seem synonymous with what many people think about their hometown independent pharmacy. Afterall, Pharmacists were just...
It seems like we spend half the year thinking about and preparing for the busy holiday season. And then it is here and gone in a flash. Decorations...
For many of us, the next few days will be a flurry of cooking, gift wrapping and cleaning. That’s on top of an incredibly busy week in your pharmacy....
Today’s independent pharmacy is much different that the mom and pop pharmacy of days past. Competition, patients, insurance companies, and health...
A couple of months back, I wrote about keeping your pharmacy customers happy and healthy this cold & flu season. I hope that you were able to run...
It can’t have been that long since I was celebrating the arrival of summer. Stashing my winter clothes and buying strawberries and cherries at the...
I’ve always loved Halloween. I know I probably should have grown out of it by now, but I just haven’t. And I hope I never do. I think it’s something...
This year, RMS celebrated 15 years in business. It seems appropriate at this milestone to take a look back at RMS. At how we started, how we’ve grown...
In the years that I’ve worked at RMS, I’ve come to realize that there aren’t many people who understand deadlines better than owners, managers and...
Back slaps, fist bumps, high fives, bear hugs, chest bumps, and the inevitable touch down dance. Yes, it’s football season. And while every game has...
When I listed my personal qualities and attributes on my very first resume, I know that I wrote down that I was good at multitasking. Today however,...
I don’t do very much of anything in small slices. This is a good thing when it comes to projects, or spending a Sunday cooking food for the week, but...
