{"id":10787,"date":"2018-07-20T08:48:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10787"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:48:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:48:27","slug":"datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/07\/datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walmart Stores Inc. (324)<\/strong> has named Sean Slovenski as its new Senior VP of Health and Wellness for Walmart U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Amazon.com Inc.<\/strong> has entered into an agreement to acquire PillPack, an online pharmacy that offers pre-packaged, portioned doses of medications and home delivery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.<\/strong> has completed the previously announced agreement to acquire a 40% minority stake in Sinopharm Holding GuoDa Drugstores Co., Ltd., a leading retail pharmacy chain in China.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Ulta Salon, Cosmetics &amp; Fragrance, Inc.<\/strong> announced The Vintage Cosmetic Company is introducing additional bathing and body products to its customers. The new products will hit the shelves at all locations and Ulta Beauty\u2019s e-commerce site in early August.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Bluemercury<\/strong> <strong>Inc.<\/strong> announced plans to open about 25 new stores this year, and another 30 in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Shoppers Drug Mar<\/strong> <strong>t Corporation<\/strong> recently opened a new location in Toronto at Yonge and Dundas Square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022 Walmart Stores Inc. (324) has named Sean Slovenski as its new Senior VP of Health and Wellness for Walmart U.S. &nbsp; Mergers and Acquisitions \u2022 Amazon.com Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire PillPack, an online pharmacy that offers pre-packaged, portioned doses of medications and home delivery. \u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/07\/datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-july-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 July 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-hbc","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}