Here are some recent notices and news stories from the pharmaceutical and retail industries.

​Drug Topics 

• Five New Year’s Resolutions for Independent Pharmacy Owners 
• Despite Aggressive Recruiting, a Surplus of Pharmacy Jobs Remain Unfilled 
• Pharmacists Central to Distributing Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccines  
• Study: Waning Antibody Protection May Increase Breakthrough Omicron Infection Rates 

 Retail Brew 

• Retail Spending Slumped in December, but Grew YoY: Report 

Payments Dive 

• Seven Payments Trends for 2022 as Innovation Climbs 

Retail Dive 

• 10 Retail Trends to Watch in 2022 
• Adobe: Holiday e-commerce topped $204B in the US 
• Omicron ‘unlikely to derail’ Economic Growth: Moody’s 

National Retail Federation 

• NRF Says 2021 Holiday Sales Grew 14.1 Percent to Record $886.7 Billion