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November 2024

Check Out the Latest Updates From Our Vendors

This month’s featured vendors provide unparalleled educational and support to help keep your pharmacy thriving.

Farmer and Chemist

Save up to 55% off retail prices with FARMER & CHEMIST!

As we approach the final quarter of the year, Farmer & Chemist is excited to offer special promotions designed to enhance your pharmacy’s CBD offerings. They provide a high-quality product and experience for patients, ensuring they receive the right CBD treatment when they need it most. Their concentrated formulas deliver purity and efficacy, making it easier for your pharmacy staff to recommend the best products for managing pain, anxiety, and sleep.

Navigating the world of CBD can feel overwhelming, but with Farmer & Chemist as your partner, you can rest assured that your team will be equipped with the knowledge to support your patients effectively. In addition to premium CBD products, they include minor cannabinoids like Cannabigerol (CBG) for pain and inflammation relief and Cannabinol (CBN) to enhance sleep quality, maximizing the benefits for your patients.

As a proud member of Independent Pharmacy Cooperative (IPC), Farmer & Chemist are pleased to offer preferential pricing and ongoing staff training.

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Farmer & Chemist CBD Display with CBD gummies, tinctures, and more.

Fourth Quarter Promotions: Free Shipping and Minimum order $300!

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Amundsen Davis

Did someone say FREE Legal Advice?

IPC pays the complete monthly retainer for GPO members. Don’t wait, reach out to them today!

Amundsen Davis Law Firm offers the experience and knowledge necessary to customize legal solutions for pharmacies, including acquisition and financing, labor and employment, intellectual property, and litigation. You’ll get practical advice and counsel on business, labor, and employment issues from someone who knows the latest in both substantive and procedural law, is familiar with the retail pharmacy industry, and (perhaps most importantly) understands the needs important to you.

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Free Digital Display Screens and no effort revenue streams!

Through IPC’s collaboration with Dolphin Digital Out of Home [OOH] Media, your pharmacy can benefit from a COMPLETELY FREE in-store digital advertising screen which serves a dual purpose. Promote in-store products, services, and programs with 3 free ad spaces while earning passive revenue from third-party advertisements.

Our Pharmacy Services and Marketing teams have tons of great ideas to help implement successfully into your stores. Do you run a vaccine program? Offer Delivery? Partner with local businesses? Are you an iCare+ Virtual Healthcare Center? Ask us about premade templates to help you advertise!

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See how Dolphin Digital screens could fit in your store:

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The IPC Pharmacy Services Department is looking for your feedback.

The Vendor Advantage Network is looking to expand its offerings, and while we can research, vet and present those to you, we want to hear YOUR VOICE. Let us know what products or services your pharmacy is missing or needs better pricing on!

Adherence packaging, marketing assistance, retail items, billing, and digital services? You name it and we’ll investigate it! At IPC, YOU make the decisions!

Shannon Battle

Pharmacy Services Manager

Shannon Battle serves as the Manager of Pharmacy Services. As a certified pharmacy technician, Shannon brings over 12 years of retail, community and closed-door pharmacy experience to the Vendor Advantage Network. She works tirelessly to seek out the most efficient business solutions, the highest revenue margins and elevated customer service possible from vendors offered to our members. Shannon’s history as a Pharmacy Training Manager has given her valuable insights into the real behind-the-scenes needs of a pharmacy and providing quality access to products and services for our members is her number one priority.

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The first liquid supplement that offers the same benefits of IV rehydration therapy, but in a drinkable form.
GPO Member Benefit
A fast, simple, and complete solution for prescription-packaging products. Free custom imprints, free same-day shipping.
Specializes in providing long-term care pharmacies with the tools and services needed to survive in today’s environment.
GPO Member Benefit
A leading manufacturer of innovative social expression products that assist consumers in enhancing their relationships.
GPO Member Benefit
Choose from a great variety of sun and reading glasses. Convenient price tags are color-coded by category or strength.
GPO Member Benefit
Restock your OTC Covid-19 test kits at a discount with no minimum order. SiteLabs also offers a point-of-care testing program, and more.
GPO Member Benefit
Offers the best products for sustaining a healthy lifestyle by using the highest quality ingredients that meet regulatory requirements.
Receive a single check for all expired pharmaceutical return credit due through the OneCheck Select program, in as few as 10 days.
GPO Member Benefit
As a pharmacist-owned and operated business, PRS offers the best in pharmacy consulting services and has the expertise that far exceeds other pharmacy consultants or service organizations.
GPO Member Benefit
Pharm Fresh Media is a full-service pharmacy marketing company with the experience and know-how to set you apart from the competition.
Berry creates innovative packaging that makes life better for people and the planet by leveraging their unmatched global capabilities, sustainability leadership, and deep innovation.
Weaving style and quality into therapeutic threads, VIM & VIGR products are part designer socks, part medical device, and all designed with your customers in mind.
Designer Greetings is virtually unrivaled in terms of quality, value and depth, with more than 22,000 everyday and seasonal designs.
GPO Member Benefit
QuidelOrtho delivers a continuum of diagnostic solutions that further improve patient outcomes and the overall quality of healthcare.
GPO Member Benefit
Your access to affordable vaccines is made easy through IPC’s preferred vaccine vendors.
GPO Member Benefit
Home health care franchise opportunity for pharmacies.
Independent pharmacy’s trusted partner for accounting services, starting, buying, & selling
Dolphin Digital can revolutionize the way your pharmacy connects with customers and generates additional revenue.
Your trusted partner for quality point-of-care testing.
GPO Member Benefit
The Selzer Company - Community Pharmacy Insurance Solutions: 35+ years, custom insurance, competitive pricing, support for independents.
RxHearing is fully staffed with board-certified hearing specialists with over 100 years of combined experience in the hearing health industry.
To help meet the financial needs of independent pharmacies across the country, First Financial Bank’s Pharmacy Lending team includes pharmacists and former pharmacy owners.
GPO Member Benefit
A leader in pharmaceutical returns, Inmar processes over 50% of all Rx returns for independent pharmacies.
GPO Member Benefit
For over 60 years, PPRB has helped pharmacies build relationships, generate sales, and win customers with their signature line of high-quality, low-cost wall calendars.
GPO Member Benefit
Compliance management system dedicated to helping independent pharmacies manage wholesale contracts and wholesale ordering.
GPO Member Benefit
SureCost is the smarter purchasing solution that empowers pharmacies to save time and money.
Farmer & Chemist CBD products provide a more pure, more concentrated formula to ensure your patients get the right CBD treatment at the right time.
CheckmyRxCost helps pharmacies compare prices across multiple wholesalers, ensuring the best possible purchase strategy for each order.
Meet Nimble. Your New Revenue Stream.
Unlock exclusive discounts on your NCPA Membership! SAVE $90 on a single pharmacy annual membership!
35 years of experience designing and distributing award winning products and retailers worldwide.
Atrium24 is a tech company to help independent pharmacies grow through smarter sales & marketing.
Workflow Services provides an end-to-end medical care platform including insurance credentialing, patient engagement, digital pharmacy, HIE integration & billing.
GPO Member Benefit
Maximize Savings, Optimize Rebates, and Simplify Compliance with AI-Driven Tools Built for Independent Pharmacy Owners
GPO Member Benefit
UGO is a cloud-based platform to visualize pharmacy performance, compare metrics, and identify areas for profitability improvement.
Olympia Pharmaceuticals is the nations leading 503B outsourcing facility to deliver premium compounded medications.
Download resources from IPC Vaccine Vendors
GPO Member Benefit
Leadership Growth Formula gives pharmacy teams practical, on-demand training to lead with confidence and impact.
PureWay partners with pharmacies nationwide to provide safe, compliant, and eco-friendly sharps disposal solutions.
Lansworth Pharma SelfServe empowers independent pharmacies with 24/7 prescription access through secure, automated Pharmaself24 kiosks that boost efficiency and patient convenience.
Our organic beeswax formula hand sanitizer softens and moisturizes while killing 99.99% of germs—all in a convenient, recyclable, credit card–sized travel bottle.
ClarityX is a pharmacogenetics (PGx) testing company focused on helping patients make more informed medication decisions.
Flash Returns reverse distribution simplifies pharmacy returns with same-day sign up, flat-rate pricing, and full manufacturer credit with no hidden fees.

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