Innovative Approaches To Retail And Dining 

By  |  July 2, 2021
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Walgreens has been doubling down on reinventing its membership programs and making its pharmacy/retail offerings more personal for shoppers. In technology, retailers are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to cope with inflation. And in dining, a restaurant/wine bar in New York City has a solution for remote work “laptop squatters.” All this, Today in Data.

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    DataData: 

    75M: Number of memberships in the new MyWalgreens program, per Walgreens’ Q3 earnings.

    $34B: Walgreens’ sales from continuing operations in the three months ending May 31.

    $25: Daily price for which restaurant and wine bar Kindred began renting out its tables in September 2020.

    14%: Increase in visits Walgreens and CVS saw in May versus 2019, per Placer.ai data.

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    5%: Increase in the consumer price index over the past 12 months.


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