The protests of retail pharmacists have not slowed the rapid growth of prescriptions sold by mail - at least not yet.

But their concerns are shared by retail pharmacists across the country, who said that Medicare drug plans were paying them less than it cost to fill prescriptions for the beneficiaries.

Alliance Boots a retail pharmacist and pharmaceutical wholesaler in several European countries.

Insurers try to save money by negotiating discounts with drug manufacturers and retail pharmacists.

These private entities could include groups of retail pharmacists, insurers and specialized companies like PCS and Medco.

Then, after a brief stint as a drug salesman, he worked for half a decade as a retail pharmacist.

Chicago had 5,000 telephones in the 1880s; retail pharmacists rented 500 of them.

Pharmacy Times was ranked the number one publication among retail pharmacists in both readership and page exposure by the 2012 Kantar Media Professional Health Study.

He said that it was hard to "motivate retail pharmacists to intervene" with physicians.

She also worked as a retail pharmacist throughout Central Oregon.