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WHAT IT MEANS AND WHY IT'S IMPORTANT In January 2009, Walgreens’ top brass faced a few hundred worried stockholders on a frigid day -- a day whose forbidding temperatures and blowing snow seemed to match the grim mood of those inside Chicago’s Navy Pier ballroom. The economy was in a panicked freefall. Bank lending and consumer spending had evaporated as the nation hemorrhaged jobs. Walgreens’ stock price was down by almost half from its all-time peak.

Drug Store News speaks with Jim Wonderly, VP pharmacy at Stop & Shop, Giant-Landover and Ahold USA.

Drug Store News: With the reorganization of Ahold USA there seems to be a real effort to get more localized in each market. Does that mean changes in the pharmacy?

FRANKLIN, Wis. —What do Sandra Bullock, Tobey Maguire, Meryl Streep and Bill Paxton all have in common? Three things—they’ve all been nominated for Golden Globe Awards, they’ve all starred in movies with Kevin Bacon and while they’re in the Golden Globe green room, they’ll all be sporting Carma Labs’ Carmex lip balm products.

NEW YORK Sales of liquid Tylenol formulations, both adult and children, totaled $104.5 million across food, drug and mass (minus Walmart) for the 52 weeks ended May 17, according to Information Resources Inc. Internal analgesics tablet sales of Tylenol SKUs (across the top 20 brands) generated another $480.9 million. That’s more than $500 million in annual revenue, not including Walmart, potentially impacted by a future Food and Drug Administration decision. That’s not even representative of all acetaminophen sales.