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A Peek Into the Health Store of the Future
The future of health care is being seized by retail, from innovative independents offering to relieve joint pain to Walmart installing examination rooms. All of which means the health store of the future is still a free-for-all. We have four observations to help retailers ensure they remain in the health...Learn More
The New Health Store
This issue shows you how different retailers are competing for a share of the Big Business of WELL. As shoppers expand their circle of trusted health care providers, both established chains and CBD innovators want to be first to reimagine how to deliver wellness products, services, information and experiences. As...Learn More
Apple, Google, are the New Authorities in Healthcare. Is Retail Ready?
If one device can pinpoint the moment in which wellness transitioned from a preference to a retail necessity, it would be the Apple Watch. We look into what Apple, along with tech companies like Google and Microsoft, have in store for consumer healthcare, and how it is changing the retail landscape...Learn More
3 Ways to Get Voice-Activated Devices to Pay Off (Hint: You Need a Screen)
Can we talk about voice technology in retail? If retailers are investing in VA technology, they need to be doing so in areas beyond saving time and easy refills. These qualities are building blocks, but growth follows sales, and sales follow browsing. And that browsing must be displayed as well...Learn More
A Tsunami of Self-Care is Bearing Down on Healthcare. A 5-Step Rx
In-store blood-pressure screenings were just the beginning. Today, time-starved patients are shopping for self-care services and expecting these services to include the professionalism and confidence once connected to traditional physicians. Here’s what you need to ask yourself before taking out the middleman, AKA the doctor. The doctor is in – and...Learn More
WSL Strategic Retail's Big Business of WELL Initiative
There is an accelerating social movement underway that demands more than a “business-as-usual” approach to wellness. Consumers now expect everything they buy to somehow contribute to their overall wellbeing. This presents bigger opportunities for companies already established in health care…but it has also encouraged new competitors. Agile innovators are re-inventing...Learn More