Department store giant J.C. Penney Co. Inc. is selling its financially troubled Eckerd chain of drug stores for $4.525 billion to rivals CVS Corp. and Canada's Jean Coutu Group Inc. The deal announced ...

All of Eckerd Drugs' stores in Western New York will remain open and keep their name, once a pending sale is complete. But the new owner, Montreal-based Jean Coutu Group, said it will focus on raising ...

A drugstore isn't the last place to look for a quick bottle of milk, a dozen eggs or even a frozen TV dinner anymore. The front end of more and more Eckerd Drugs stores is looking more and more like a ...

The mail-order prescription business has grown big enough for Eckerd Drugs to join the crowd: The company is setting up its own pill-packing assembly line operation. "We've been in the mail-order ...

There is no escaping the fact that pharmacy is drug stores' core business, representing nearly 70% of total sales. However, the draw of low-margin pharmacy has great potential to impact the ...

Eckerd Drugs in Eden is scheduled to reopen Dec. 28, exactly four months after it was heavily damaged by a fire set by burglars. While the adjoining grocery store, Shur Fine, opened 13 days after the ...