When a friend asked me if I had any Tylenol in the house this past weekend, I directed her to my medicine cabinet. “It should be on the top shelf” I...
In the days before I sat comfortably behind my desk, I stood behind a cash register, set planograms, reordered stock and counted down cash drawers at...
Pharmacies are unique organizations. While they provide a key service in the form of filling essential medical prescriptions, they also operate in...
For the last 5 years, the main offices of Retail Management Solutions have been located right in the middle of downtown Olympia, Washington....
I use my debit card for pretty much everything. So much in fact that my card rarely lasts the 5 years between when my bank issues the card and when...
When I used to think about patients not taking their prescriptions, I would immediately picture a fussy toddler, fighting some less than desirable...
I’m not quite sure how it happened, but every month a Harper’s Bazaar magazine shows up in my mail box. If you’re not familiar with the magazine,...
On Wednesday morning, I stared at a blank document on my computer screen, rolling ideas around in my head for this week’s blog post. I always look...
In 1982 the movie Blade Runner was released. The science fiction film takes place in the year 2019, which is not so very far from today. However, if...
Sometimes technology can be scary. Not in an “I’m afraid to try new things” way, but because for every wonderful thing that technology helps us to...
Let’s take some of these examples of “Buyer Beware” and turn them into 5 rules for strategic pricing for independent pharmacy.
There has been a large amount of argument in the media, some of it strident, on the perceived benefits and/or failures of Windows 8, of its dual...
Not so long ago, I spent a majority of my days talking about FSA card acceptance and IIAS compliance. Anyone who went through the process in the...
We often get calls from customers asking “Am I PCI compliant?” The only answer RMS or any technology provider can truly provide is, “ We don’t know”....
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about a pharmacy I was visiting to do a photo and video shoot, West Cocoa Pharmacy. As I said previously, they opened...
