{"id":9609,"date":"2017-05-26T08:51:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T08:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=9609"},"modified":"2017-05-26T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T08:51:39","slug":"new-drugstore-dashboard-for-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/05\/new-drugstore-dashboard-for-q2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Drugstore Dashboard for Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the year was a challenge for much of the industry, but at least the data is consistent as we pull up the new <strong>Chain Store Guide Drugstore Dashboard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Total US pharmacy and drug store sales were down in the first quarter, a state of affairs reflected in the latest earnings reports for <strong>CVS, Walgreens<\/strong> and <strong>Rite Aid,<\/strong> all of which saw declines in comparable store sales. CSG\u2019s own polling data and our <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/csr\/\">Consumer Spending Report<\/a> also point to the idea that consumers are slightly less inclined to open up their pocketbooks than they\u2019ve recently been.<\/p>\n<p>On a more positive note, the dashboard\u2019s Indy Spotlight falls on <strong>Benzer Pharmacy,<\/strong> a Tampa-based pharmacy that CSG projects will increase its store count by approximately 30% this year through a combination of acquisitions and franchising.<\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/DrugstoreDashboardQ22017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download Your Q2-2017 Drugstore Dashboard<\/a><\/span><\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/DrugstoreDashboardQ22017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"dashboard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/drugstore_dashboard2.jpg\" alt=\"dashboard\" name=\"Cont_0\" width=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the year was a challenge for much of the industry, but at least the data is consistent as we pull up the new Chain Store Guide Drugstore Dashboard. Total US pharmacy and drug store sales were down in the first quarter, a state of affairs reflected in the latest earnings reports for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/05\/new-drugstore-dashboard-for-q2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Drugstore Dashboard for Q2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-9609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-hbc","tag-csg-dashboard","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}