{"id":12915,"date":"2019-10-31T09:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=12915"},"modified":"2019-10-31T09:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T13:26:37","slug":"datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/10\/datatrac-drug-stores-hbc-chains-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Diplomat Pharmacy (20) <\/strong>has named David Skomo COO of CastiaRx, a division of Diplomat, following the retirement of Chris Luthin.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Rite Aid Corporation<\/strong> (49) <\/strong>announced Jim Peters as its new COO. He will be assuming the position from Bryan Everett, who is stepping down.<\/p>\n

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Industry Insight<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 CVS Health<\/strong> is stepping up its telehealth offering. The company announced that its retail medical clinic, MinuteClinic has rolled out its video visit offering in Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Oregon, and Washington. The service is now available in a total of 32 states.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Raley’s Family of Fine Stores<\/strong> announced it plans to close 27 of its in-store pharmacies. Prescription files for those locations have been sold to nearby Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Sam\u2019s Club<\/strong> announced it is piloting a program that will offer its members four different bundled healthcare options that will help cover the costs of routine primary care, dental, optical and alternative medicine and also offer select free generics.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Vitamin Shoppe Industries<\/strong> has unveiled a new innovative retail store concept in Edgewater, NJ. The Vitamin Shoppe is planning to roll out five new locations with a similar format through January 2020.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.<\/strong> announced a plan to transfer seven of its existing company-managed clinics in the Cincinnati area to TriHealth. The clinics, which are set to open in the first quarter of 2020, will be owned and operated by TriHealth.<\/p>\n

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Real Estate<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 The Bartell Drug Company<\/strong> has opened a new location in the Belltown mall in Seattle, WA.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Genoa Healthcare<\/strong> recently opened 9 new pharmacies across 7 states.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.<\/strong> announced plans to remodel approximately 100 Sally Beauty Supply stores in the North Texas region, with stores being upgraded consistent with a recent concept store test in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

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Technology News<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022\u00a0 CVS Health<\/strong> announced it is expanding the reach of its BeautyIRL experience. The interactive beauty department will reach nearly 50 stores by the end of 2019 in the New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and Boston markets.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Microsoft Corporation <\/strong>and Nuance partner to transform the doctor-patient experience with ambient clinical intelligence (ACI). Working in tandem with long-term electronic health record (EHR) partners to develop the technology, ACI will deliver a seamless and engaging interaction between clinicians and patients. Through patient consent, ACI will synthesize patient-clinician conversations, integrate that data with contextual information from the EHR, and auto-populate the patient\u2019s medical record in the system.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Vitamin Shoppe Industries<\/strong> is opening a new innovation store in Edgewater, NJ. The completely reimagined 3,185 sq. ft. space features interactive elements such as on-demand digital product guides, enhanced mobile checkout, a complimentary body composition analysis station, and a supplement sampling machine.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.<\/strong> has partnered with delivery company Postmates to bring on-demand delivery to customers in New York City. Postmates will soon be delivering OTC, health, beauty and grocery products from 174 Walgreens and Duane Reade locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personnel Updates \u2022\u00a0 Diplomat Pharmacy (20) has named David Skomo COO of CastiaRx, a division of Diplomat, following the retirement of Chris Luthin. \u2022\u00a0 Rite Aid Corporation (49) announced Jim Peters as its new COO. He will be assuming the position from Bryan Everett, who is stepping down.   Industry Insight \u2022\u00a0 CVS Health is… Continue reading DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 October 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-12915","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\/12915","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=12915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}