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  • Amazon Prime Now doubles Bartell Drugs delivery reach

    SEATTLE — Amazon Prime Now more than doubled its delivery service reach for Bartell Drug delivery, with customers in the Seattle area able to order thousands of health, beauty, grocery, snacks, local products delivered to their home for free in two hours.

    Prime Now is available in neighborhoods spanning Everett to Normandy Park to Issaquah. Customers who need the items delivered faster can pay a $7.99 fee for one-hour delivery.

    Amazon also inked Prime Now delivery deals with other Seattle-area retailers, including grocery retailer New Seasons Market.

  • Walgreens Boots Alliance taps marketing agency WPP to manage global communications

    DEERFIELD, Ill.  — Walgreens Boots Alliance on Tuesday afternoon partnered with WPP and selected a team of WPP agencies to operate and develop multiple marketing and communications channels for its retail and wholesale businesses as well as its health and beauty product brands.

  • Walmart to give new employees pay increases sooner

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The labor market for workers appears to be improving.

    Walmart confirmed to media outlets it will speed up the time it takes for new employees to complete a training program and subsequently increase their pay.

    The retail two years ago implemented a $9 per-hour minimum wage and last year unveiled a six-month training program called Pathways. Once this program was completed, pay was increased to $10 per hour.

  • Walgreens, Rite Aid amend deal to $7 per share, extend end date

    DEERFIELD, Ill.  — Walgreens Boots Alliance and Rite Aid on Monday morning extended their previously announced definitive merger agreement under which Walgreens Boots Alliance will acquire all outstanding shares of Rite Aid.

  • Kroger makes naloxone available without a prescription in Texas

    DALLAS  — Kroger's Dallas division now offers the opioid overdose reversal medication Narcan (naloxone HCl) Nasal Spray 4mg at its 101 pharmacies in the region, the company announced Monday afternoon.

  • Albertsons announces big strides since Safeway merger

    BOISE, Idaho — Albertsons on Monday — the two-year anniversary of its merger with Safeway — shared some of the progress the company has made since the combination made it the second-largest supermarket company in the United States. The merger created a collective company with 2,230 stores and a team of 250,000 people across 19 banners. 
     

  • Walgreens Flu Index: Flu continues to rage across Texas

    DEERFIELD, Ill.  — The Walgreens Flu Index for the week of Jan. 22 is picking up on significant rising incidence throughout the Lone Star State — the three markets with the greatest amount of flu incidence gains in the past week are all in Texas.

    According to the Texas Influenza Surveillance Report, for the week ending Jan. 14, the percentage of doctor and hospital visits for influenza-like illnesses appoached 6%.  

    For the week of Jan. 22, the top 10 markets as measured by flu activity were:

  • Walgreens increases regular quarterly dividend

    DEERFIELD, Ill.  — Walgreens Boots Alliance on Thursday announced that its board of directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend of 37.5 cents per share, an increase of 4.2% over the year-ago period.

    Walgreens Boots Alliance and its predecessor company, Walgreens, have paid a dividend in 337 straight quarters (more than 84 years) and have raised the dividend for 41 consecutive years.

    The dividend is payable March 10, 2017 to stockholders of record as of Feb. 15, 2017.

     

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