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Reducing Dispensing Errors

Posted by Robert Walthall on Thu, Apr, 25, 2019 @ 09:53 AM

According to the NIH, prescription errors are a relative rarity. However, when they do occur, they often have grave consequences. Patients can experience severe side effects, medication injuries, and even death when the wrong medication is dispensed, the dosage is wrong, or if the label contains errors. Even in the best-case scenario — the pharmacist or patient catches the mistake before the medication is taken — those errors erode trust and can even expose your pharmacy to lawsuits. As the above-cited NIH study states, error prevention matters “because pharmacies dispense such high volumes of medications that even a low error rate can translate into a large number of errors.”

So how can your pharmacy protect itself and its patients?

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Topics: pharmacy shelving, retail display solutions, pharmacy fixtures, Workflows

5 Key Trends in Pharmacy Design for 2019

Posted by Robert Walthall on Mon, Mar, 25, 2019 @ 09:56 AM

The pharmacy design services offered by Shelving Design Systems are a bit art, a bit science, and just a dash of Nostradamus. We find ourselves learning from past designs, true, but we also spend a lot of time looking ahead to the kinds of trends shaping pharmacy design. After all, nobody wants a design that will be dated no sooner than the last shelf is installed or the last screw turned. So what, and for whom, will we be designing in 2019?

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Topics: retail display solutions, pharmacy fixtures, pharmacy design layout

Why Efficiency is Key to Your Pharmacy's Success

Posted by Robert Walthall on Wed, Feb, 27, 2019 @ 10:41 AM

Running a pharmacy can feel like being on a small boat in a storm. You’re buffeted on all sides by competition, high overheads, inventory challenges, regulatory pressures, and fickle consumer tastes. It’s easy to look for a silver bullet or quick fix — a big, bold solution to your problems — but all of us at Shelving Design Systems have found over the years that taking care of the fundamentals is what really ensures long-term viability and profitability. One of those fundamentals that’s capable of forming a solid foundation for many of the others? Efficiency.

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Topics: pharmacy shelving, retail display solutions, pharmacy fixtures, pharmacy design layout

3 Ways Drugstore Shelves Impact Sales

Posted by Robert Walthall on Wed, Jan, 10, 2018 @ 09:30 AM

Whether they're made of wood or steel, plastic, glass, or any combination of these, you need pharmacy shelves to display the merchandise you have available, to keep your store neat and tidy, and to organize your inventory.

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Topics: pharmacy fixtures

Pharmacy Fixtures Should Be Functional AND Attractive

Posted by Robert Walthall on Wed, Oct, 18, 2017 @ 08:30 AM

As an independent pharmacist, your first priority is to serve your customers to the best of your ability. To that end, you may think that your pharmacy fixtures should be functional and practical – and that's true; but they should also be attractive and aesthetically pleasing. When you focus on both, you make your store attractive to customers and make it easy for them to shop, too. First, the elements of functionality:

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Topics: pharmacy fixtures

Use Gridwall Booths to Create Freestanding Pharmacy Fixtures

Posted by Robert Walthall on Thu, Aug, 07, 2014 @ 09:30 AM

Gridwall booths are simply a way to assemble gridwall panels together. Specifically, gridwalls let you create your own freestanding pharmacy fixtures. Generally three sided, structures are put together with gridwall panels to display just about any type of merchandise or product. Within your store, you can use them to create unique semi-enclosed displays. Instead of placing them against the wall or as freestanding double-sided displays, you fashion three sided booths with three panel sections.

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Topics: pharmacy fixtures

How to Choose the Best Wire Candy Racks For Your Store

Posted by Robert Walthall on Wed, Jun, 18, 2014 @ 09:30 AM

When you think of the best-selling merchandise in your store, what comes to mind? Over the counter medications? Prescriptions? First aid supplies?

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Topics: pharmacy fixtures

Gridwall is an Affordable Pharmacy Fixture Option, No Wasted Space

Posted by Robert Walthall on Wed, Jun, 11, 2014 @ 09:30 AM

Do you need to create displays with pharmacy fixtures that don't take up a lot of space? Gridwall is a functional, versatile, durable and affordable way to do so.

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Topics: pharmacy fixtures

Optimization of Displays, Pharmacy Fixtures Influence Product Sales

Posted by Robert Walthall on Mon, Jun, 09, 2014 @ 09:30 AM

If you really want the products in your pharmacy to sell, you have to focus on optimizing your displays so that your customers will be drawn to your products and want to buy them. How?

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Topics: pharmacy fixtures

Entice Customers by Showcasing Candy With Counter Displays

Posted by Robert Walthall on Fri, Jun, 06, 2014 @ 09:30 AM

If you're not making full use of your counter tops by putting a variety of "impulse buy" products on display, you're missing out on the opportunity to significantly boost your bottom line. You can put any number of products in pharmacy fixtures here, from magazines to over-the-counter medications. That said, one of the truly important products you should be showcasing is candy. Why, where and how should you be showcasing candy in counter displays?

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Topics: pharmacy fixtures