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  • Prime Now adds its first drug store just in time for the holidays

    SEATTLE -- Amazon has selected Bartell Drugs as its first drug store partner for Prime Now, which will offer one- and two-hour delivery of thousands of products from Bartells in the Seattle area.

    Amazon Prime members in Seattle can now shop thousands of health, beauty, grocery, snacks, local products and much more from Bartell Drugs and have those items delivered for free in two hours.

  • Walmart, J&J honored at CHPA Foundation's inaugural gala

    from l. to r.: Anita Brikman, CHPA Educational Foundation; Annie Walker, Walmart Stores; and Christopher DeWolf, CHPA Educational Foundation

  • Top e-commerce trends that will impact retail in 2017

    Absolunet has released its list of the top 10 e-commerce trends that will impact North American retailers in 2017. The e-commerce agency noted that the impact of the trends will be felt online and in stores, and by retailers and consumers alike.  
     
    Here is Absolunet’s top 10 list: 
     
    1. The end of Black Friday and Cyber Monday: Tech–savvy merchants are replacing Black Friday and Cyber Monday with Cyber November;

  • Estee Lauder to buy millennial-fave beauty brand for $1.45B

    NEW YORK -- Estee Lauder has agreed to buy California-based beauty company Too Faced for $1.45 billion, scooping up a brand that’s popular with millennials.

    Too Faced products are sold at self-serve beauty retailers such as Sephora and Ulta Beauty and have a loyal following on social media. 

    The deal is the latest in a series of beauty mergers this year.

    In October Coty acquired more than 40 of Procter & Gamble Co.’s beauty brands. And Revlon agreed to acquire Elizabeth Arden in June for about $419 million.

  • Study: Childhood exposure to flu protects against future strains

    PHOENIX - Your birth year predicts -- to a certain extent - how likely you are to get seriously ill or die in an outbreak of an animal-origin influenza virus, according to a study published last week that was co-led by researchers from the University of Arizona in Tucson and the University of California, Los Angeles.

  • Paperchase to launch holiday ‘pop-up’ stores in U.S.

    AUSTIN, Texas -- British greeting card and stationery retailer Paperchase plans to open its first pop-ups in the U.S. market just in time for Christmas.

    Paperchase is famous in London for its distinctive Holiday collections, which will be showcased in the five pop-up stores. 

    The Paperchase pop-up stores will be located across the U.S.:

  • Report: Trump administration improves odds for Walgreens, Rite Aid deal

  • Albertsons, HCSC team to tackle adherence

    Customer-owned health insurer Health Care Service Corporation has launched a multi-phase program called Pharmacists Adding Value and Expertise in collaboration with Jewel-Osco, Safeway and Albertsons Pharmacies in Illinois, Montana and New Mexico, as well as with the Texas Pharmacist Association. The move represents the company's effort to help improve medication adherence rates with its Medicare and dual-eligible (Medicare/Medicaid) members.
     
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