Grubhub customers will soon be able to order goods from Instacart’s network of grocery stores and pharmacies within the Grubhub app or website. This capability will be enabled by a new partnership between the two companies, in which Instacart has become Grubhub’s grocery delivery partner,...
CVS Pharmacy said it is now serving more than 9 million former Rite Aid and Bartell Drugs patients after completing its acquisition of select assets of the now-closed Rite Aid. Following Rite Aid’s filing for bankruptcy in May, CVS Pharmacy acquired 63 former Rite Aid...
Omnicare, a CVS Health subsidiary that provides pharmacy services to skilled nursing facilities, independent and assisted living communities and other segments of the long-term care market, filed for bankruptcy Monday (Sept. 22). The company said in a press release that it attributed the move to...
Walmart customers can now have refrigerated and reconstituted prescriptions delivered along with their groceries and other everyday items. In addition, they can purchase these cold-chain prescriptions, which include things like insulin, GLP-1s and pediatric amoxicillin, in the same online order as other goods, the retailer...
January 07, 2025
In the past decade, the U.S. has seen a dramatic decline in the number of drugstores, with nearly 30% of them disappearing from the retail landscape. This shrinking footprint reflects a combination of factors, including the rise of eCommerce, changing consumer habits, razor-thin profit margins and a more competitive environment dominated by big-box retailers and […]
October 15, 2024
Walgreens Boots Alliance is undertaking a transformation focused on its retail pharmacy business in response to persistent challenges in the consumer market and pharmacy sector. As part of this strategy,...
October 07, 2024
Data, in the right hands, can be a business leader’s magic wand. “Data is our best friend right now,” Jeanniey Walden, the chief marketing and customer officer at Rite Aid, told PYMNTS,...
May 17, 2024
Amazon and Walmart may be setting their sights on high-income consumers, but as the two retail giants compete for shoppers’ spending, they are working hard not to lose their lower-income...
March 02, 2026
Walgreens has debuted what it calls the country’s first “hybrid pharmacy” program. The service, announced by the retailer last week, lets pharmacists divide their time between working in stores for part of the week and spending the rest of the time working from a “centralized pharmacy desk.” In a blog post announcing the move, Walgreens told the […]
October 28, 2025
Grubhub customers will soon be able to order goods from Instacart’s network of grocery stores and pharmacies within the Grubhub app or website. This capability will be enabled by a...
October 17, 2025
CVS Pharmacy said it is now serving more than 9 million former Rite Aid and Bartell Drugs patients after completing its acquisition of select assets of the now-closed Rite Aid....
September 22, 2025
Omnicare, a CVS Health subsidiary that provides pharmacy services to skilled nursing facilities, independent and assisted living communities and other segments of the long-term care market, filed for bankruptcy Monday...
