{"id":12770,"date":"2019-09-27T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T12:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=12770"},"modified":"2019-09-27T08:50:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T12:50:50","slug":"datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/09\/datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-september-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Bluemercury Inc. (29)<\/strong> announced that Marla and Barry Beck, its founders, will transition from the company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0CVS Health (207)<\/strong> has recently hired Adam Pellegrini as Senior VP of Transformation Consumer Health Products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (106)<\/strong> has named Francesco Tinto as Global CIO and Senior VP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Financial Focus<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Fred\u2019s Inc.<\/strong> has filed for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Industry Insight<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Madison Reed<\/strong> announced plans to franchise its stores under a joint venture with Franworth, a franchise consulting firm. The company expects to have close to 100 company-owned stores and 500 franchises in four years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. <\/strong>announced that Honest Beauty products will soon be available in 750 Walgreens stores across the nation and through its website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc.<\/strong> has opened its first Walmart Health center attached to a remodeled Walmart Supercenter in Dallas, GA. It offers basic health care and diagnostic services in partnership with local providers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Fred\u2019s Inc.<\/strong> has begun liquidation sales at its stores, which it said are expected to close by the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Technology News<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Ulta Salon, Cosmetics &amp; Fragrance, Inc.<\/strong> announced it is introducing Sparked, a lifelike online store based on virtual reality technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Vitamin Shoppe Industries<\/strong> is launching Only Me, a personalized online assessment that delivers a custom assortment of vitamin and supplements to participating subscribers each month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.<\/strong> has announced a new partnership with Google\u2019s sister company Wing and its Alphabet drone delivery service as part of a new pilot program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022\u00a0Bluemercury Inc. (29) announced that Marla and Barry Beck, its founders, will transition from the company. \u2022\u00a0CVS Health (207) has recently hired Adam Pellegrini as Senior VP of Transformation Consumer Health Products. \u2022\u00a0Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (106) has named Francesco Tinto as Global CIO and Senior VP. &nbsp; Financial Focus \u2022\u00a0Fred\u2019s Inc. has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/09\/datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-september-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 September 2019<\/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-12770","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\/12770","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=12770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}