{"id":1376,"date":"2012-11-16T17:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2012-11-16T17:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:07:23","slug":"industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/11\/industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Updates: Drug Stores and HBC Chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Personnel Updates<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<br \/>\nCVS Caremark<\/strong> has appointed Alan Lotvin to the position of Exec VP Specialty Pharmacy.<br \/>\n<strong>CVS\/pharmacy<\/strong> expanded the role of two retail field executives as Senior VP Operations Dennis Palmer, a 37-year retail veteran, announced his retirement. Hanley Wheeler, Senior VP Operations, has assumed responsibility of CVS\/pharmacy\u2019s Western and Southwestern markets while continuing to have responsibility for the company\u2019s retail operations in its Midwest and Southeast markets. Assuming responsibility for CVS\/pharmacy\u2019s retail operations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic is Kevin Hourican, Senior VP operations, who joined CVS\/pharmacy in June 2012 from Macy\u2019s.<br \/>\n<strong>Ricky&#8217;s<\/strong> beauty and drugstore chain announced that Catherine Moellering has joined the company as its new President and CEO.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Walgreens<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0announced the appointment of Brad Fluegel as Senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Industry Insight<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<br \/>\nBusch&#8217;s Fresh Food Market<\/strong> closed the pharmacies at all its stores October 21, 2012 because of the changing healthcare industry and the complexities of managing a prescription-pharmacy business. The retailer is going to concentrate on food products and groceries, and has been working with local CVS and Rite-Aid pharmacies to handle each store&#8217;s prescription customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Real Estate<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<br \/>\nPlanet Fitness<\/strong> is expanding to Centerville, OH hoping to open in time to capitalize on New Year\u2019s resolutions. The fitness chain has signed a 5-year lease in the Washington Park Plaza shopping center at 705 Lyons Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates: CVS Caremark has appointed Alan Lotvin to the position of Exec VP Specialty Pharmacy. CVS\/pharmacy expanded the role of two retail field executives as Senior VP Operations Dennis Palmer, a 37-year retail veteran, announced his retirement. Hanley Wheeler, Senior VP Operations, has assumed responsibility of CVS\/pharmacy\u2019s Western and Southwestern markets while continuing to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/11\/industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry Updates: Drug Stores and HBC Chains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-1376","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\/1376","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}