- November 14, 2023
Walgreens is taking a new approach to online delivery by utilizing its network of physical stores.
The pharmacy giant recently closed a warehouse dedicated to eCommerce orders, signaling its commitment to using ...
- October 13, 2023
Following the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic’s transition, a leadership reorganization, a shaky foray into health care, and recent labor issues with pharmacy staff, Walgreens is now going “line ...
- October 2, 2023
Cooler Screens, a company that sells digital advertising space on refrigerator door screens, is reportedly involved in a legal dispute with Walgreens.
The dispute arose after Walgreens installed Cooler Screens’ technology, ...
- August 29, 2023
From treatment for chronic illnesses to minor ailments, retailers are leveraging their widespread presence to capture a larger share of healthcare spending, offering customers solutions that prioritize convenience, affordability and ...
- July 10, 2023
As consumers struggle with high prices, Walgreens is working to woo its loyalty program members.
The pharmacy chain on Monday (July 10) announced “myW Days,” a weeklong event — July 23-29 — for members ...
- June 28, 2023
The story of the cautious consumer continues as Walgreens reflects on its latest quarterly earnings.
On Tuesday (June 27), after the company issued a warning that its profits are projected to ...
- April 14, 2023
Retailers are reporting good results from new retail media advertising tools offered by Meta.
A month after the company launched Managed Partner Ads Lite and local inventory ads, retailers who have ...
- February 21, 2023
NCR said its ATMs will soon be in nearly every Walgreens location in the country.
The enterprise technology company announced in a Tuesday (Feb. 21) news release that it had “significantly” ...
- January 10, 2023
Big Retail’s continued healthcare push is poised to advance with a $10 billion deal.
CVS is in the running to buy Oak Street Health, and beyond the money involved, strategically speaking, ...
- January 6, 2023
Walgreens Boots Alliance is reportedly considering dialing back its anti-theft measures.
Losses from theft have dropped, the security measures are expensive and some of those measures have been ineffective, The Wall ...
- January 5, 2023
The nation’s second-largest chain of drug stores said Thursday (Jan. 5) it is moving forward with costly investments in technology.
This, as Walgreens Boots Alliance told investors that the long-term benefits ...
- December 22, 2022
Despite all the growth of omnichannel retail, the inventory data needed to satisfy BOPIS demand is still behind.
Among those pressures: Having the right inventory in place, and having the right ...
- December 2, 2022
When you need baby formula at 3 a.m., options are limited. Or rather, they were.
Announcement of Walgreens 24-Hour Same Day Delivery on Thursday (Dec. 1) marks a turning point in ...
- December 1, 2022
Walgreens says it will extend its same-day delivery service to fulfill orders around the clock.
Beginning Thursday (Dec. 1), Walgreens will fulfill orders 24 hours a day, seven days a week ...
- October 30, 2022
Walgreens-controlled healthcare provider VillageMD is reportedly considering a possible merger with Summit Health.
According to a Sunday (Oct. 30) Bloomberg News report, unnamed sources said the deal with Summit, a healthcare ...
- October 26, 2022
Walgreens said it has begun offering customers in some markets the option of order pickups that are ready within 30 minutes.
According to an announcement sent to PYMNTS Wednesday (Oct. 26), ...
- October 25, 2022
Uber and Walgreens have launched a partnership with the White House to provide free deliveries of the prescription COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid straight to customers’ doorsteps.
In an announcement published on its ...
- October 13, 2022
In what could be characterized as the latest entry in the “COVID-19 Changed Everything” file, Walgreens Boots Alliance said Thursday (Oct. 13) that it is simplifying its operations under three ...
- October 2, 2022
Drug store chain Walgreens is expanding a system of huge fulfillment centers — some as large as a city block — where robots package prescriptions for patients, The Wall Street ...
- September 7, 2022
Health care is the space that couldn’t reinvent itself — becoming truly modern — until Big Retail came along to help usher the industry more fully into the 21st century.
For ...
- September 6, 2022
Boots is set to debut an online marketplace next year that will let third-party brands sell their wares through the Walgreens-owned U.K. health and beauty retailer as it undergoes a ...
- June 30, 2022
With COVID-19 vaccinations and urgent care visits dropping through spring as infection fears faded, Big Pharmacy is looking to get back on track with expansion plans, a recovery in prescriptions ...
- June 30, 2022
Walgreens wants to double the number of prescriptions being filled by its robot-powered micro fulfillment centers, the pharmacy chain’s chief executive said Thursday (June 30).
Speaking on a conference call to ...
- June 28, 2022
In today’s top stories from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Bank of London will integrate cloud banking, Wise reports increased revenues and Walgreens will not sell its U.K.-based ...
- June 28, 2022
After a six-month review period that saw its own stock and the broader markets falling by more than 20%, Walgreens announced Tuesday (June 28) that it has decided to retain ownership ...
- June 6, 2022
New year, new world. That could sum up 2022, but it’s a bit more involved.
If we weren’t thinking about health often enough before, that behavior’s been replaced by a hypervigilance ...
- May 4, 2022
Walgreens has named a trio of executives to key leadership positions in the company, the drugstore chain announced Wednesday (May 4).
New leaders Linh Peters (senior vice president and chief marketing ...
- April 8, 2022
In a land of giants, where the corner pharmacy of yore is all but extinct, the fate of Rite Aid hangs in the balance, and perhaps the future of drugstores ...
- April 7, 2022
Wing has debuted its drone-based delivery service from the parking lot of a Walgreens store in Little Elm, Texas, according to a company announcement, kicking off the largest initiative of ...
- March 31, 2022
Today in retail, Tempur Sealy expects to report 15% year-over-year growth for fiscal 2022’s first quarter, while FTD uses data to grow lifelong customers of the ever-evolving brand. Plus, Faire ...
- March 31, 2022
As the world waits for the answer on what Walgreens will do with its U.K.-based Boots unit, the company rode a spike in COVID-19 tests and booster shots to higher-than-expected ...
- March 30, 2022
Walgreens Boots Alliance, based in the U.K., is leveraging robots to fill orders at micro-fulfillment centers across the U.S. as pharmacists at retail stores are forced to pivot in changing ...
- March 16, 2022
There’s a surprising new entrant in the race to capitalize on the surge in summer travel bookings: Walgreens has teamed up with travel guidance platform Tripadvisor to “promote and encourage safe ...
- March 9, 2022
Walgreens is now part of the PayNearMe retail payments network, which offers bill payments for people who use cash for bills and other noncommerce transactions, according to a press release ...
- March 1, 2022
The prescription business is getting a bit of a headache as pricing, product and the shifting landscape of retail pharmacies, prescription delivery services and other players reshape the terrain, hitting ...
- February 25, 2022
Same-day delivery service Shipt announced in a Friday (Feb. 25) press release that it has launched partnerships with pharmacy chain Walgreens and convenience store 7-Eleven, marking more than 140 collaborations ...
- January 14, 2022
The surge in positive cases of COVID-19 is leading to staffing shortages and weekend closures of some CVS and Walgreens pharmacies, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Friday (Jan. 14).
Supermarkets ...
- January 12, 2022
Bain Capital and CVC Capital Partners are putting together a multibillion-pound joint bid for pharmaceutical giant Boots, according to multiple reports Tuesday (Jan. 11).
Boots has more than 2,000 stores and ...
- January 7, 2022
Nike’s lawsuit against Mirror shows how big the connected fitness sector has become, and consumers want buy now, pay later (BNPL) so retailers need to offer it. Plus, Walgreens focuses ...
- January 6, 2022
The second-largest U.S. pharmacy retailer says it plans to open 100 new Walgreens Health Corner locations this year, having closed two acquisitions last quarter and now finalizing a third. While ...
