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  • Walmart: 5 reasons why the Jet.com deal makes sense

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores on Monday announced completion of the company’s acquisition of Jet.com, following expiration of the waiting period under federal regulations. The news was initially shared on Instagram by Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon.

  • Masque-ology rolls out sheet mask line to Walmart
    LOS ANGELES — Korean skincare facial mask brand Masque-ology on Thursday announced its rollout of its line of affordable sheet masks to Walmart stores. The line wil now be available nationwide at 3,000 Walmart locations. 
     
    "We are very excited to partner with Walmart to launch these new facial masks," says Phillip Ha, CEO of Beauty Architects. "K-Beauty has been in the forefront of skincare in Asia for the last 10 years and we are proud to bring the best products to the U.S."
     

  • Moody’s: Walmart leading charge against Amazon
    NEW YORK — Such brick-and-mortar retailers as Walmart and Best Buy are not only surviving online, but are thriving due to their sizable physical assets and digital investments.
     
    That’s one of the main findings of a new report by Moody's Investors Service, which says that while Amazon keeps raising the stakes online and has a decade-plus advantage over other retailers in e-commerce, it still faces intense competition from the likes of Walmart and Best Buy, who are raising the bar online for other physical merchants. 

  • One-size-fits-none: Creating personalized solutions for tech savvy boomers

    One of the biggest impacts of technology among a potentially unexpected group of consumers is its ability to empower baby boomers to be independent for longer, according to Pfizer Consumer Healthcare senior director disruptive innovation wellness Rimma Fehling. Baby boomers are becoming the beneficiaries of extended independence as the result of technological advances that can cover physical distance with technological solutions.

  • Watson Health: Transforming care with data, ‘cognitive insights’

    Today’s health system is saddled with stark challenges, including runaway costs, exploding demand for services and huge gaps in the quality of care and in the sharing of patient records, treatment options, health risk factors and other data.

  • Aetna’s Speck touts humanizing health care

    Christina Speck, senior director of consumer initiatives at Aetna

    Successfully offering consumer-centric health care requires a multi-pronged approach that meets the needs of a wide variety of customer groups, Aetna senior director of consumer initiatives Christina Speck stressed at the recent Retail Health Summit.

  • Overcoming isolation: The retail resource

    “One-in-4 people over age 45 in the United States is chronically lonely.”

  • Consumer use of natural OTCs increases

    The use of homeopathic medicines as part of a self-care solution to treat such ailments as the common cold or back pain is becoming more and more commonplace through conventional channels. While a Harvard survey on the use of homeopathy published earlier this year in the American Journal of Public Health revealed that only 2.1% of U.S. adults have used homeopathy in the past 12 months, conventional outlets including Walmart, CVS Health and Rite Aid command 86.5% of the homeopathic dollar share, according to SPINSscan (powered by IRI).

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