Tuesday, November 25, 2003

CornerDrugstore, the leader in pharmacy web site content and services, today announced CornerDrugstore.com Version 1.6. J M Smith Corporation acquired CornerDrugstore just over a year ago, and CornerDrugstore has since integrated CornerDrugstore.com with QS/1’s pharmacy management software, which is in use in thousands of pharmacies nationwide. This integration provides local pharmacy customers with the ability to submit online prescription refills directly into their local pharmacy management system.

CornerDrugstore.com helps pharmacies to establish an Internet presence without adding resources and for very little investment. CornerDrugstore.com also provides constantly changing pharmacy-related healthcare content to keep web sites fresh and pharmacy customers coming back. According to Chris Sigmon, QS/1 Manager of Web Products, “Studies have shown that access, convenience and information will drive customer loyalty.”

CornerDrugstore.com provides web site implementation, server and virus monitoring and web site hosting with multiple data centers to provide redundancy of networks, power and equipment, and data backup to keep web sites running smoothly. CornerDrugstore also provides directory services similar to YAHOO!® with links to all CornerDrugstore web sites to help local pharmacy prospects find the pharmacy closest to them.

“With CornerDrugstore.com 1.6, we improved our prescription refill process and enhanced the CornerDrugstore.com health content by expanding on health and wellness tools, alternative medicine and drug information. Customers can now enter multiple prescription refill requests in a single submission. Customers can now also search through the CornerDrugstore.com archives to look up health-related content. We will continue to provide clients with solutions aimed at helping them to drive revenue and profit for their businesses,” says Sigmon.

According to Mike Ross, pharmacist and owner of Blythewood Pharmacy in Blythewood, S.C., “CornerDrugstore has always been ahead of other companies in offering the most advanced web site content services, and this 1.6 solution allows our pharmacy customers to submit multiple prescription refills on the same order. The real benefit is that CornerDrugstore takes care of my web site maintenance so I don’t have to. None of my people are required to manage this web site, since CornerDrugstore handles all the monitoring, management and maintenance. All I have to do is fill the prescription requests.”

CornerDrugstore is the leading provider of pharmacy web sites with over 600 pharmacy customers. CornerDrugstore offers many services to help pharmacies establish their own web site presence and also helps pharmacies with existing web sites to accept prescription refills online and to enhance their pharmacy-related health care content. CornerDrugstore is a division of the J M Smith Corporation, the fourth largest privately held company in South Carolina. For additional information, visit www.CornerDrugstore.com or call CornerDrugstore at 1-800-859-5489.