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As senior vice-president of sales and marketing, Gary Charboneau has been choosing locations and designing Duane Reades since The last two sections, seasonal cards and candy and household and grocery, can be split and moved to fit the space. Most stores carry between 18, and 20, different items. With , people making a purchase at Duane Reade every weekday, a study of exactly what the stores sell gives a pointillist portrait of the New York consumer.
That runs from insoles and corn pads—because New Yorkers walk so much, Duane Reade sells twice the industry average—to foods for the society-X-ray palate. But they fly off the shelf. Selling makeup—a huge business for drugstores—proves a challenge to convention: New Yorkers come in darker shades than most Americans. Not to mention the reference to Chanel No. When New Yorkers make their way to the pharmacy counter, their selections are heavy on sex and therapy and ambivalent about kids.
The top-selling sedative, ranked nineteenth nationally, is one of the top five drugs sold at Duane Reade. But what New Yorkers really specialize in is birth control: Three contraceptives rank in the top 25 of Duane Reade sellers, while no contraceptive breaks the top 50 nationally.
Duane Reade also takes advantage of its intimate knowledge of New Yorkers to cram the stores with as much product as possible. To keep rushed shoppers moving, most stores have six cashiers at the front, compared with three at suburban stores, and between 10 and 30 employees working at one time. So the company has hit the brakes, opening only 17 stores in and 16 in , down from more than 30 each year in and Though the deal was opposed by some shareholders, Cuti believes it will allow him to concentrate on a long-term reimagining of Duane Reade.
Unable to continue his expansion model because of a runaway real-estate market, Cuti plans to search for more sales inside each store.
And that means making Duane Reade a little more … chichi. The Walgreens return policy is consistent across all Walgreens and Duane Reade locations, and you can usually return Duane Reade items to Walgreens stores and vice versa.
No, they are not connected. Which is one of the reasons it is best to get all of your prescriptions at one place meaning one chain. Founded in by the brothers Abraham, Eli, and Jack Cohen, Duane Reade started as a three-store health-and-beauty chain that took the name of the two streets that bounded its lower-Broadway warehouse. Since Cuti took over, Duane Reade has grown from 59 to stores, the most of any drugstore chain in the city.
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