Patient Compliance

COLTON, Calif. -- Stater Bros. Supermarkets here is helping customers stay healthy and well during fall and winter by providing flu vaccination clinics.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Cub Foods apparently has the right prescription for pleasing the majority of pharmacy shoppers. Twin Cities consumers voted Cub Foods' in-store pharmacies in as the best in the market, for the second year in a row.

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway Inc. yesterday began offering outreach and assistance to customers enrolling in the new Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, in an effort to help them understand how the new program could make prescription drugs more affordable.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A Marsh supermarket in Fishers, Ind. will host in in-store health clinic in a partnership the family-owned grocery chain and the American Health Network, one of the nation's largest physician groups.

NEW YORK -- Despite all the recent press concerning greater consumer awareness when it comes to eating better-for-you products, less than one-third (29.6 percent) of American adults say that they try to eat healthy foods and pay attention to nutrition -- and more of those who do are female, according to data released by Mediamark Research, Inc. (MRI), based here.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart and Sam's Club are making a nationwide case for diabetes screenings, by hosting screening and public education events at almost 4,000 stores on Sept 24.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Morten Strunge Meyer, secretary general of the newly formed International Fruit & Vegetable Alliance, will be the featured speaker at the closing session of the United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Association's Washington Public Policy Conference on Thurs., Sept. 15, 2005.

DIX HILLS, N.Y. -- Pathmark found itself on the front lines this week in a controversy over pharmarcists refusing to fill prescriptions on moral grounds. At a press conference held outside a Pathmark supermarket here, federal legislators said there ought to be a law requiring pharmacists to either fill all prescriptions, or refer customers to a colleague.