CVS Care Corp. has officially closed on the former Union Avenue United Methodist Church building at Cooper and Union in Memphis, Tenn., clearing the way for the company to build a drug store. Operating as CVS 4992 TN LLC, Rhode-Island based CVS purchased the building for $2.25 million from St. Luke’s United Methodist Church. CVS […]
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Grocers Overcome Challenges Severe Weather Brings
Even the mighty fell—sorta. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. managed to open its headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., on Feb. 9, but employees did not have to report if they couldn’t safely travel to work. A foot of snow had fallen on Northwest Arkansas. Some parts of Oklahoma saw two feet of snow. In the northeast corner of […]
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Delta to Serve Seattle’s Best
Delta Air Lines said it will begin serving Seattle’s Best Coffee on its flights starting March 1, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Seattle’s Best Coffee will replace the unbranded coffee Delta has been serving on flights. Atlanta-based Delta will serve a “Level 4″ brew, based on the coffee chain’s new system ranking coffee from 1 to […]
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Tell Me—Do You Welcome Extreme Couponers?
I’ve wanted to ask a question of our retailer readers for some time now, and for reasons I will explain in a moment, I am posing it now: Do you have major coupon users that shop your store, and if so, do you welcome them or wish they would shop somewhere else? I would love […]