{"id":8854,"date":"2017-02-17T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2017-02-17T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:05:04","slug":"datatrac-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/02\/datatrac-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-february-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Personnel Updates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Fred\u2019s Inc<\/strong>. has named Gregory Froton as Senior VP Merchandising, General Merchandise, promoted Kimberley Felice-Dooley to Senior VP Merchandising, Consumables, and appointed Steve Wuebker as Senior VP Supply Chain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Rite Aid Corporation<\/strong> has named Ken Black Senior VP and Chief Human Resources Officer. He will succeed Dedra Castle, who is leaving the company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Southeastern Grocers<\/strong> announced it has tapped Gayle Shields to be its new VP Pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Walgreens Boots Alliance<\/strong>, <strong>Inc<\/strong>. announced its CIO, Abhi Dhar, is leaving the company. The retailer is also losing its Chief Merchandising and Marketing Officer, Linda Filler, who will depart April 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Financial Focus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Ulta Salon, Cosmetics &amp; Fragrance, Inc<\/strong>. is launching a new holding company, Ulta Beauty Inc. All outstanding shares of common stock will automatically convert, and the stock will continue to trade under the &#8220;ULTA&#8221; ticker.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Benzer Pharmacy<\/strong> recently opened its first stores in California, Colorado and Texas through its franchise model.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Technology News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Giant Food Stores LLC<\/strong> reopened a store in Fairfax, VA, featuring a pilot for pick-up point technology at its full-service pharmacy. The new technology utilizes LED lights to create a more efficient method of retrieving prescriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personnel Updates \u2022 Fred\u2019s Inc. has named Gregory Froton as Senior VP Merchandising, General Merchandise, promoted Kimberley Felice-Dooley to Senior VP Merchandising, Consumables, and appointed Steve Wuebker as Senior VP Supply Chain. \u2022 Rite Aid Corporation has named Ken Black Senior VP and Chief Human Resources Officer. He will succeed Dedra Castle, who is leaving&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/02\/datatrac-drug-stores-and-hbc-chains-february-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Drug Stores and HBC Chains \u2013 February 2017<\/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-8854","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\/8854","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=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}