drugstore.com

A program note.

Jeff Bezos of amazon.com and Peter Newport of drugstore.com were scheduled to be on this evening.

They will appear on this broadcast on Friday night.

Tonight, Dan Rather and his interview with President Clinton all about Kosovo.

And as somebody, again, as I mentioned before, who did not study design and then moved into this field, I moved in during the dot-com boom.

So I am an alum of the monster.com. I'm an alum of a variety of, of drugstore.com, a variety of different initiatives that were very digitally

I worked on mail.com when it first launched.

Remember that one?

And one of the things that, you know, in every one of those stories in those companies, they put the rudder in the water and they said, we're taking the company in this direction.

And, uh, even through the, the internet age where, um, like Walgreens, for example, they stuck to their strategy, even though drugstore.com, you know, was coming out and it was, it was eating their lunch and all the press said, Oh, Walgreens is going to go out of business.

They stuck with their strategy and eventually they, they got into the.com world, but they also combined, you know, online with their in stores, but they kept their strategy.

And so I think, um, I think we can adapt our strategy as conditions change, but we sort of have to stick with the things that we really thought through and planned for.