The appearance of in-store health clinics is a significant trend for pharmaceutical and POC diagnostic market watchers, as well as for those in retail. When last Kalorama published the first syndicated market research study on the emerging trend of in-store clinics in 2007, retail clinics were a novel trend. Now, with a few years of activity, they are established in food, drug, mass merchandizing and other stores, with both successes and failures. There is growth in some projects, scalebacks in others. Kalorama has analyzed these developments and returned to examine the state of the market in 2009.

In this market research report, Kalorama outlines many of the factors that will determine the future of the retail clinic concept:

• Overview of Successes and Failures in this Market
• What Consumers Think About Retail Clinics
• Statistics on the Current Number of Clinics in the U.S.
• Projections for Future Growth of Clinics
• Markets for Vaccines to Retail Clinics
• Markets for POC Diagnostic Products to Retail clinics
• Calculations of the Indirect Revenue that retail clinics can add to Store Income.
• Types of Stores (Food Store, Drug Store, Mass Merchandize or box store, Other) that will most benefit from retail clinics
• How the 2009 economy will shape the retail clinic market
• Other Trends That will Impact this Market
• Company Profiles of Major Retail Clinic Companies

Information for this report was gathered from a wide variety of published sources including company reports, catalogs, materials and public filings; government documents; trade journals; newspapers and business press; analysts’ reports and other sources. Interviews with company representatives were conducted to capture the perspectives from industry participants’ point of view and assess trends, and form the basis of the forecasting and competitive analysis. Dollar figures represent the U.S. market and are expressed in current dollars. Sales estimates are provided for the historic 2003 to 2008 period and forecasts are provided through 2013. The size of each market segment refers to manufacturers’ revenues.

Additional Information

New York, September 28, 2009 - Americans may be as likely to get a flu shot at one of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains as in a doctor’s office or clinic. That should not be surprising, according to healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information. The nation’s major drugstores have been using flu shot programs to earn revenue and to draw customers in the store to make other purchases, an indirect revenue strategy that Kalorama Information predicted in its reports on the retail clinic phenomenon in recent years.

Walgreen’s pharmacies began delivering flu shots on September 1st of this year and the chain has already exceeded its 2008 total of 1.2 million shots, according to reports in other media outlets. CVS pharmacies with a MinuteClinic in the store are also offering the vaccine with no appointment necessary, and Rite Aid has offered walk-in flu shots at some locations without an appointment and at other locations if customers call first. The costs of the shots range from $18 to $25.

“Using medical services to get shoppers into the stores is a tactic that we’ve noticed in the drugstore industry recently,” said Bruce Carlson, Publisher of Kalorama Information. “But with all the attention on the flu right now, retailers have really seized this opportunity.”

Kalorama Information has observed in recent years how thousands of retail stores have built clinics within the store environment to service low-cost medical needs. Drugstores are utilizing these clinics to administer the vaccines where they can, but where there is no retail clinic, they are operating out of temporary clinics set up in the pharmacy area of the stores. According to Kalorama Information, it’s no surprise why retailers would be in such a rush to take the place of government clinics and physician offices in administering flu vaccines.

“The stores earn revenue off the flu shots, but that is only part of the business model,” Carlson said. “The real benefit comes from getting customers in the door where they can be expected to purchase over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, health and beauty aids, and other products.”

In its report Retail Clinics and In-Store Healthcare 2009: Bright Spot in the Current Economy? Kalorama Information indicated that U.S. drugstores saw $132 million of additional indirect revenue in stores that had a retail clinic in 2008, a number that should grow with increasing utilization of medical services in retail stores. The report details statistics on retail clinic stores, major companies in the industry and growth forecasts. For more information, please see: http://www.kaloramainformation.com/redirect.asp?progid=76103&productid=2041111.

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