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  • Report: Amazon vs. Target battle goes to college

    Amazon.com’s battle against Target is moving to a new battleground: college campuses.

    According to Fortune, the online retailer has its eyes on the next generation of affluent shoppers and is quickly expanding its fleet of campus kiosks that allow students to retrieve online orders. 

    Amazon’s push comes just as Target, which operates a few campus stores under its small- store format, is making college stores part of its new growth plans, Fortune reports.

  • Walgreens, Rite Aid join Hurricane Matthew relief efforts

    DEERFIELD, Ill. - Both Walgreens and Rite Aid on Thursday joined prominent Florida retailers in helping victims of Hurricane Matthew.

  • Walgreens Boots Alliance continues 41-year tradition with dividend increase

    DEERFIELD, Ill. - Walgreens Boots Alliance on Wednesday 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.

    The dividend is payable Dec. 12, 2016 to stockholders of record as of Nov. 17, 2016.

    Walgreens Boots Alliance and its predecessor company, Walgreens, have paid a dividend in 336 straight quarters (or 84 years) and have raised the dividend for 41 consecutive years.

  • Early Halloween sales are up at Meijer

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – With Halloween falling on a Monday this year, consumers will be celebrating throughout the entire weekend, and Meijer says it is already seeing an increase in demand.           

    The Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer says it is seeing as much as a 50% rise in customers taking advantage of early Halloween savings on décor, candy and costumes.

  • Ulta raises outlook, plans to open more stores

    BOLINGBROOK, Ill. -- Red-hot retailer Ulta Beauty raised its guidance Thursday ahead of planned remarks at an investor conference in Chicago, where the company also discussed plans to accelerate store expansion.

  • NACDS supports pilot of new pharmacy practice model

    ARLINGTON, Va. - The National Association of Chain Drug Stores, in partnership with the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin, on Wednesday announced plans to move forward with a new practice model to improve patient access to quality and efficient care, and advance pharmacy in a broader healthcare setting.

  • Report: Walmart takes action before new overtime rule goes into effect

    Walmart is upping some managers’ salaries in anticipation of the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule, scheduled to take effect Dec. 1, 2016.
       

  • Ralphs, Food 4 Less urge customers to join Stop Diabetes Movement

    LOS ANGELES -- Supermarket partners Ralphs and Food 4 Less are inviting their customers to be part of the Stop Diabetes movement by donating their spare change.

    November is Diabetes Awareness Month and now through Nov. 8, Ralphs and Food 4 Less are offering their customers the opportunity to help in the fight to stop diabetes by donating their spare change in specially-marked coin boxes located at the check stands in all Ralphs and Food 4 Less stores in Southern California.

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