The NACDS Marketplace Conference is the
largest and most powerful convergence of drug, food, mass,
club, and value retailing in the United States, if not
the world.
The epicenter for health and beauty aids
(HBA) and general merchandise (GM) buying and selling,
Marketplace represents more than 90 percent of the industry.
Bringing together more than 200 retail companies representing
more than 100,000 stores with 750 manufacturing companies
across 11 major categories, it represents over $540 billion
in annual buying power. In a phrase, Marketplace is the
lifeblood of the industry.
Today, NACDS membership consists of nearly 200 chain community
pharmacy companies. Collectively, chain community pharmacy
comprises the largest component of pharmacy practice with
over 112,000 pharmacists. Today, the chain community pharmacy
industry is comprised of 20,849 traditional chain drug
stores, 9,818 supermarket pharmacies, and 6,777 mass merchant
pharmacies.
The NACDS membership base operates more
than 36,000 retail community pharmacies with annual sales
totaling over $650 billion, including $221 billion in
sales for prescription medicines , over-the-counter (OTC)
medications and health and beauty aids (HBA). Chain-operated
community retail pharmacies fill over 71% of the more
than 3.2 billion prescriptions dispensed annually in the
United States. Additionally, NACDS membership includes
more than 1,000 suppliers of goods and services to chain
community pharmacies.
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