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The grocery retailer has selected Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, as the second location for its new GreenWise Market concept, which focuses on the specialty, natural and organic sector. The 25,000-sq.-ft. store is expected to open in early 2019.

After a 41-year career at Hy-Vee, the regional grocer’s vice chairman, executive vice president and chief administrative officer is retiring. As Andy McCann departs his position, the West Des Moines, Iowa-based chain has promoted Sheila Laing to the post from her position as chief human resources officer.

Wine.com has announced plans to not only expand the number of locations where consumers can pick up their order after placing it, but also to include many of the nation’s leading retailers in this new venture.

A recent Walgreens Center for Health and Wellbeing Research study assessed a collaboration between Piedmont Healthcare’s Hepatitis C specialty clinic and a Walgreens local specialty pharmacy and showed that a high proportion (94%) of Hepatitis C patients who were prescribed direct-acting antiretrovirals were able to achieve the primary outcome goal, sustained virologic response, even though many patients had advanced liver disease, previous treatment failure or previous liver transplants.

Given that online shopping and health and wellness are two of the biggest consumer trends, it made sense the two would become more intertwined. That happened big time in 2017 with the Amazon-Whole Foods merger.

With the holiday shopping season fast approaching, companies are trying to entice consumers by announcing Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals before the actual day. With that type of information out in the open, Wisconsin-based company Shopko also decided to share its predictions for what exactly consumers will be on the hunt for when hitting retailers nationwide.

The Walgreens mobile app recently hit a milestone, earning a five-star rating in Apple’s App Store. The Deerfield, Ill.-based company said that the app’s three most popular features among users are prescription refill (including refill-by-scan), photo print ordering and paperless coupons.

As Amazon appears to be making moves to get into the pharmacy business — including the May hiring a senior manager of pharmacy benefits in May and the October acquisition of wholesale pharmacy licenses in 12 states in October — the question among industry players has been what form the online giant’s foray would take.