Case Study
Discount Drug Mart Inc.
Salient Case Study Salient Corporation, 203 Colonial Drive, Horseheads, NY 14845 USA P. 607 739 4511 F. 607 739 4045 E. info@salient.com www.salient.com CS.DMreview.DDrug.08 Salient Editorial DM Review–July 2008 Background: Discount Drug Mart, Inc., is an Ohio-based regional drugstore chain that has 67 locations statewide. Its 25,000 square foot stores each stock more than 40,000 items and include a number of service centers and amenities more typically found in general merchandise stores. Discount Drug Mart had always known what products were shipped to each store but had no way to extract its sales data. With so many different product SKUs and thousands of transactions taking place each day, it needed to find a way to examine and dissect its data to better understand w