{"id":2733,"date":"2013-03-22T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2013-03-22T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T20:09:07","slug":"industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-march-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/03\/industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-march-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Updates: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 March 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Personnel Updates<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ulta Beauty<\/strong> has named Scott Settersten CFO and assistant secretary, effective immediately. Settersten will report to Dennis Eck, interim CEO. Settersten, a 15-year Pricewaterhouse-Coopers veteran, took over the post in October when Bruce Hartman left after a month on the job<strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Industry Insight<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Target<\/strong> plans to open clinics in three Chicago-area stores, part of a larger national plan to add 14 clinics this year, the company said. The facilities will treat minor illnesses and injuries, and provide services including camp physicals and acne treatment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Walgreens<\/strong> opened the doors to its latest flagship location in the nation&#8217;s capital, bringing to District of Columbia residents and commuters the kind of retail pharmacy theater already familiar to citizens of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Green Initiatives<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Walgreens<\/strong> will build what the company believes is the nation&#8217;s first net zero energy retail store. The proposed store, in Evanston, IL, will employ solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal technology, energy-efficient building materials, LED lighting and ultra-high-efficiency refrigeration. &#8220;We are committed to reducing our carbon footprint and leading the retail industry in use of green technology,&#8221; stated Thomas Connolly, vice president of facilities development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates: Ulta Beauty has named Scott Settersten CFO and assistant secretary, effective immediately. Settersten will report to Dennis Eck, interim CEO. Settersten, a 15-year Pricewaterhouse-Coopers veteran, took over the post in October when Bruce Hartman left after a month on the job &nbsp; Industry Insight: Target plans to open clinics in three Chicago-area stores,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/03\/industry-updates-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-march-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry Updates: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 March 2013<\/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-2733","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\/2733","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=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}