{"id":8198,"date":"2016-11-18T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=8198"},"modified":"2016-11-18T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T08:33:09","slug":"datatrac-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-novembe-2016-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/11\/datatrac-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-novembe-2016-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 November 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

DATA<\/span><\/strong>TRAC <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Diplomat Pharmacy<\/strong> has announced Paul Urick as the company\u2019s new President.
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Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Walgreens Boots Alliance<\/strong> and Rite Aid Corp.<\/strong> announced that they have mutually agreed to extend the end date of their merger agreement. The companies now expect the transaction will close in early 2017.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span>The Bartell Drug Company<\/strong> has been selected as Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s first drug store partner for Prime Now, which will offer one- and two-hour delivery of thousands of products from Bartell Drug stores in the Seattle, WA area.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.<\/strong> announced the start of its new Ship to Store program that will allow its customers to pick up online and mobile app orders in-store.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span>Benzer Pharmacy<\/strong> announced that it has opened its first store in Arkansas.<\/p>\n

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Technology News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>CVS Health<\/strong> announced it is launching its mobile payment solution, CVS Pay, on a national basis. CVS Pay works in CVS Pharmacy stores only and is not yet available at CVS Pharmacy in Target locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DATATRAC Personnel Updates \u2022 Diplomat Pharmacy has announced Paul Urick as the company\u2019s new President.   Mergers and Acquisitions \u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance and Rite Aid Corp. announced that they have mutually agreed to extend the end date of their merger agreement. The companies now expect the transaction will close in early 2017.   Industry… Continue reading DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 November 2016<\/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-8198","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\/8198","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=8198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}