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  • Health consumers migrating to retail

    Futurist/economist Jane Sarason-Kahn

  • Health Dialog to host webinar on shared decision making

    BOSTON, Mass.— Rite Aid's Health Dialog on Monday announced it will host a complimentary webinar, “Five tactical steps for successful implementation of shared decision making,” on Sept. 20 at 1 p.m.

    Peter Goldbach, the company’s chief medical officer and a national authority on SDM, will provide strategic advice to help organizations execute effective shared decision making programs that reduce costs, improve outcomes and increase patient satisfaction.

  • Dollar Tree appoints new CEO

    CHESAPEAKE, Va. — There's been a changing of the guard at Dollar Tree as the man who grew the chain into a $22 billion retail powerhouse moves into a new role.

    The discounter has appointed Gary Philbin, enterprise president, as CEO, effective immediately. He succeeds Bob Sasser, who will become executive chairman of Dollar Tree's board.

  • Walmart plans new home office

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Even headquarters have a shelf life.

    Walmart is planning to build a new, central headquarters — one better suited to a "digitally native" workforce — in its hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas. The discount giant revealed the news in a note by CEO Doug McMillion on the company's website.

  • Florida power outages down to 1.6 million accounts as relief efforts continue

    KEY WEST, Fla. — Florida Governor Rick Scott and several state agency heads met Friday with local officials in the Florida Keys to discuss recovery efforts after Hurricane Irma as Florida continues to contend with flooding and power outages.

    Flood warnings remain in effect across the state and the current power outage as of noon Friday was at more than 1.6 million accounts, down from a peak of 6.7 million outages reported on Monday.

  • Study: Mobile drove back-to-school e-commerce sales

    PRINCETON, N.J. — Mobile commerce made the grade this back-to-school season, contributing to a 3% increase in overall e-commerce sales.

  • Target partners with Kaiser Permanente on 31 Southern California clinics

    PASADENA, Calif. — Target is bringing shoppers in 31 of its Southern California stores clinics staffed and operated by Kaiser Permanente. The companies announced the planned retail clinics Thursday, whose expansion builds on an existing collaboration they launched in 2014.

    Currently, there are four Kaiser Permanente-staffed Target Clinics in southern California, with four set to open in November — two in San Diego, one in Orange County and one in Riverside —with the rest set to open in existing stores over the next three years.

  • Vitamin Shoppe in search of new products at upcoming ECRM Innovation Summit

    SECAUCUS, N.J. — The Vitamin Shoppe will be hosting a review for suppliers across several vitamin, mineral, supplement and sports nutrition categories on Oct. 17 here.

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