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Report shows Amazon is fertile ground for health, personal care and consumables sales
SANDY, Utah — Despite a decline in the overall health and personal care, or HPC, baby and grocery categories industry-wide, Amazon is grabbing double-digit wallet share.
Dollar General opens new distribution center
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. — Coinciding with its recently announced growth plan, Dollar General opened a new distribution center.

The new $100 million facility resides in Janesville, Wisconsin. It is the company’s 14th warehouse. The approximately 1 million-sq.-ft. depot, which began shipping merchandise in January, serves approximately 800 stores in nine states in the upper Midwest, and employs more than 500 employees. Along with more than 130 store locations in the state, Dollar General now has more than 1,300 employees in the state of Wisconsin.

McMillon highlights associates’ contributions at Walmart shareholders meeting

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart is no stranger to innovation, but when defining the secret to the company’s success, Walmart’s chief executive Doug McMillon told shareholders at the company's 47th Annual Shareholders Meeting that he doesn't have to look far. He just has to look within the company’s proverbial four walls.

During the event, McMillon said Walmart has “started to invent the future of shopping again.”
CVS acquires Doc’s Drugs’ 14 stores

WOONSOCKETT, R.I. — CVS Pharmacy is acquiring all 14 Illinois locations of Braidwood, Ill.-based Doc’s Drugs, the two companies announced recently. CVS Pharmacy said it plans to convert and rename the pharmacies by mid-July, and that it expects to retain as many of the Doc’s Drugs employees at the locations as possible.
Walgreens, Susan G. Komen Chicago team on Rewards for Mammograms effort

CHICAGO — As Susan G. Komen Chicago works toward its goal of cutting the number of breast cancer deaths in half by 2026, the organization has kicked off a collaboration with Walgreens to encourage mammograms. The organization and the retailer, alongside major Chicago-area healthcare providers, are collaborating on Rewards for Mammograms program to encourage 100,000 people to get mammograms by the end of October.
Amazon grows fulfillment capabilities in 2 states

SEATTLE — Amazon is making moves to bolster its fulfillment capabilities in two different areas of the country with its latest distribution centers — one in Fresno, Calif. and one in Jefferson, Ga.
Walmart starts testing employee delivery

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart has a new delivery team dropping off customers' online orders — but they don’t work for a major shipping company or third-party delivery venture.
Industry mourns loss of former Costco exec Charles Burnett

Charles “Charlie” Burnett, a longtime Costco pharmacy executive, passed away early in the morning on June 1, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores announced Friday. Burnett is being remembered for his work as a pharmacy pioneer who helped build and grow Costco’s pharmacy business.

During his lifetime, Burnett became the only person to win both of NACDS’ highest honors — the Sheldon W. Fantle Lifetime Achievement Award and the Harold W. Pratt Award.
Albertsons names Lupin’s InspiraChamber its preferred aerosol therapy chamber

UMBAI, BALTIMORE and BOISE, Idaho — Albertsons and Lupin Pharmaceuticals announced a new partnership that would bring Lupin’s InspiraChamber to all of Albertsons’ banner pharmacies as the retailer’s preferred inhaled aerosol therapy chamber.

The holding chamber will be available at the more than 1,7000 pharmacies in the 35 states that Albertsons operates, the companies said.
Costco sales upward bound in May

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — Costco’s first monthly sales report since it beat Wall Street expectations with its Q3 results shows it continuing to right its ship after a difficult Q1 and Q2.