Overview:

Welcome to the next generation of trade shows. The Total Store Expo is a new concept for trading partners. It will promote Teamwork, Synergy and Execution. It will feature Trade Show Excitement and allow for both Tactical and Strategic Exchange.

Attendees:

WHY ATTEND

The Total Store Expo is a one of a kind opportunity for retailers and their suppliers to gather to create a new dialogue that will drive not only the top line, but also operational efficiencies. By coming together across multiple functions and encompassing all products and categories available in your stores, attendees will gain new insights into your own business as well as across your company.

In addition, the Total Store Expo will feature a Center of Learning and an Innovation Center that will highlight emerging technologies, trends, consumer and disease state insights, products and merchandising vehicles.

Exhibitors:

WHY EXHIBIT

The Total Store Expo allows you to maximize selling opportunities to retailers while getting the most out of your trade show investment. Included in your booth fee is the highly acclaimed “Meet the Market,” a value-added program open to new exhibitors and past exhibitors with new products and services. This opportunity guarantees appointments with key retail buyers in your category through a series of 10-minute pre-set meetings on the day prior to the opening of the exhibit hall.

$650 BILLION IN RETAILER BUYING POWER

Exhibiting At Total Store Expo Allows You To:

• Enhance your potential by expanding your retail customer base increasing market share.
• Share product launch plans and seek distribution/stocking of your new products.
• Explore strategic business opportunities.
• Discuss your distribution and marketing plans.
• Review current business status with existing customers.
• Find solutions to challenging issues.
• Learn about the industry's most compelling trends by participating in the education programs.
• Participate in our guaranteed-appointments program, “Meet the Market,” totaling over 8,000 pre-scheduled meetings.
• Get your product or service viewed by as many chain retailers as possible within the industry
• Connect with the buyers from more than 250 retail companies, representing over 145,000 retail outlets, who collectively buy $650 Billion Dollars in supplier goods and services
• Leave the show with knowledge from industry presentations on strategic businesses development opportunities and solutions
• Be efficient with your travel. Network with our retail attendees: Category Managers, Directors, VP's, Presidents, and CEOs to streamline your time and get face-to-face with the decision makers who buy what you sell
• The NACDS Board of Directors, including CVS, H-E-B, Kerr Drug, Rite Aid, SUPERVALU, Walgreens, and Wal-Mart, to name just a few, endorse NACDS Total Store Expo. Join us and be a part of the largest and most powerful convergence of Drug, Food, Mass, and Value Retailing all in one place, at one time.

About NACDS:

The mission of NACDS is to advance the interests and objectives of the chain community pharmacy industry, by fostering its growth and promoting its role as a provider of healthcare services and consumer products.