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  • Report: Amazon planning to open drive-up grocery store

    The world’s biggest online retailer is planning to open a drive-up grocery store in its hometown.
     

  • Walgreens becomes first retailer to integrate loyalty program with Android Pay

    DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Walgreens Balance Rewards members can now seamlessly apply their loyalty account at checkout through Android Pay, expanding the company’s portfolio of unified mobile payments solutions.

  • Target CIO talks stores, digital, supply chain and more

    Mike McNamara, a former executive at British retailer Tesco PLC, joined Target as CIO last summer, moving from London to Minneapolis.

    In a Q&A on Target’s website, McNamara discusses highlights of his first year with the discounter and priorities going forward. He also spoke about Target’s tech hiring boom.
      

  • Loblaw to purchase Canadian healthcare tech company QHR

    BRAMPTON, Ontario and KELOWNA, British Columbia — Loblaw, owner of Canada’s largest retail pharmacy chain Shoppers Drug Mart, announced Monday that it will be acquiring healthcare technology company QHR. Loblaw will be paying $170 million for the provider of electronic medical records, which is a 22% premium to the closing price on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and QHR’s board of directors has approved the deal. 
     

  • Fred’s promotes Liebmann to new COO pharmacy position

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Fred’s on Friday announced that it had promoted its VP pharmacy services, Timothy Liebmann, to the newly created position of COO pharmacy, effective immediately. Liebmann will be succeeding the company’s retiring EVP pharmacy operations, Rick Chambers.
     

  • Dollar General expands into North Dakota

    Dollar General is moving into North Dakota, announcing that it has begun construction on five new stores in the state. This gives the discount retailer a footprint in 44 states after having established operations in Maine, Oregon, and Rhode Island in 2015.

    The initial North Dakota locations will be in Ellendale, Gwinner, Hankinson, Hillsboro, and Oakes. They’re being built in the chain’s standard 9,100-sq.-ft. format.

  • Sephora redefines beauty retail in Toronto

    TORONTO -- Sephora is opening its first Beauty TIP Workshop concept store in Canada.

    The new Sephora Yorkdale is one of four stores in North America to feature the 'Teach, Inspire, Play' concept, where digital technology and services fuse.

    The retailer says it plans to conduct a year-long market intensification in the greater Toronto area, the newly renovated 9,146 square foot expansion of the Yorkdale store has been reimagined as a next-generation environment that is rooted in discovery and innovation.

  • GMDC report: Diabetic patients will increasingly rely on stores to fill health care gap

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- As more Americans develop diabetes, retailers have an opportunity to bridge the gap between physicians' orders and self-care, according to the Global Market Development Center's latest Health & Wellness Best Practices report.

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