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Chain Store Age debuts SPECS ‘Ambassadors Club’
Chain Store Age unveils its first-ever SPECS/2017 Ambassadors Club, created to recognize 12 retailers who have made significant contributions to the industry and to SPECS, the annual Retail Event for Store Innovation. Produced by CSA, SPECS is attended by retail and food-service executives involved in the planning, design, construction and maintenance of stores and restaurants nationwide.
Chain Store Age announces SPECS/2017 Advisory Board
Chain Store Age announced the selection of the Advisory Board for SPECS/2017, the annual retail event for store innovation produced by CSA and attended by retail and food-service executives involved in the planning, design, construction and maintenance of stores and restaurants nationwide. Now in its 53rd year, SPECS will host its 2017 conference in Orlando, Florida, at the Gaylord Palms, March 12-14. The event will focus on what’s next, and what is shaping the future of retail.

Walgreens to shut down two of its digital properties

Walgreens on Thursday announced the company will discontinue operations of drugstore.com and Beauty.com in favor of focusing on its core online property Walgreens.com.
With Rite Aid deal on track, Walgreens Boots Alliance Q3 sales hit $29.5 billion

Walgreens Boots Alliance reported climbing sales and profits in a generally successful third quarter of fiscal 2016.
Walgreens adds new features for paperless coupons

Walgreens recently made it easier for customers to clip coupons.
Walgreens saves time and effort spent on digital coupons

Paperless coupons are supposed to easy, and Walgreens is doing its best to make them that way. Walgreens customers now have the ability to redeem digital coupons from Walgreens and manufacturers for online purchases, as well as in-store purchases. Additionally, offers can now be “clipped” on product detail pages and in search results on Walgreens.com, and through the Walgreens mobile app.
ADA Litigation: Website Accessibility Claims on the Rise

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Walgreens shuffles executive ranks

Walgreens Boots Alliance is making a number of changes to its senior management roles and responsibilities as part of what the company is calling the “next phase of evolution.”

Alex Gourlay, executive VP of Walgreens Boots Alliance and president of Walgreens, and Ornella Barra, executive VP of Walgreens Boots Alliance and president and chief executive of global wholesale and international retail, have been appointed to the role of co-CEOs.
Q2 sales for Walgreens U.S. division up 2.1% despite soft flu season

Walgreens Boots Alliance on Tuesday announced an increase of 13.6% in net sales to $30.2 billion for the second quarter ended Feb. 29, 2016, compared with the same quarter a year ago, largely due to the full consolidation of Alliance Boots for the entire quarter this year. Foreign currency translation adversely impacted sales by approximately $750 million or 2.4%.
Walgreens issues corporate 'Red Nose' challenge as exclusive retail partner of 2nd Red Nose Day

Walgreens on Monday announced its returns as the exclusive retail partner of the second annual Red Nose Day, helping raise funds to fight kids' poverty. The campaign's iconic Red Noses - which people wear in support of the official Red Nose Day on Thursday, May 26 - returned to store shelves at Walgreens and Duane Reade locations nationwide this morning, officially kick starting the nine-week charitable campaign.

Chain Store Age debuts SPECS ‘Ambassadors Club’

Chain Store Age announces SPECS/2017 Advisory Board

Walgreens to shut down two of its digital properties

With Rite Aid deal on track, Walgreens Boots Alliance Q3 sales hit $29.5 billion

Walgreens adds new features for paperless coupons

Walgreens saves time and effort spent on digital coupons

ADA Litigation: Website Accessibility Claims on the Rise

Walgreens shuffles executive ranks

Q2 sales for Walgreens U.S. division up 2.1% despite soft flu season

Walgreens issues corporate 'Red Nose' challenge as exclusive retail partner of 2nd Red Nose Day