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Can high-tech capitalism fix the healthcare industry?

Big business is betting on a future without Medicare for All. But are retail clinics, artificial intelligence, and mobile apps enough to cure what really ails us?

Millennials are warming up to some baby boomer lifestyle choices—and vice versa

Jif peanut butter is one of the fastest-growing brands among millennials, while baby boomers are discovering the joys of White Claw.

Drones from CVS and Walgreens are finally here—and they’re bringing Band-Aids

With UPS and Google sister company Wing as partners, the big pharmacies are starting to deliver pills, Cheez-Its, and first-aid supplies by drone.

Walgreens is closing 200 stores across America

That’s 3% of its total stores—but the company isn’t revealing which ones will go.

Serious eye-drop recall hits CVS, Walgreens, Walmart: Here’s what to know

Check your medicine cabinets.

Walgreens wants its pharmacists trained for mental health crises

The nationwide drugstore chain announced that it will soon provide specialized training to pharmacists to help customers in crisis.

Walgreens, publicly shamed by the FDA, raises the tobacco age to 21

Starting September 1, Walgreens shoppers will have to be 21 to purchase tobacco products in its stores.

It’s not just Google or Facebook: The freezer aisle is ad targeting you now

Walgreens is using cameras, eye tracking, and motion sensors to show you real-time ads meant to influence which ice cream you buy.

Tesla announces 2 new independent board members–one is Elon Musk’s “close friend”

The two come as part of a settlement Tesla reached with the SEC.

Birchbox just gave the Walgreens beauty aisle a 21st-century makeover

The company known for its beauty boxes is launching retail experiences at 11 Walgreens stores, where women can sample and buy beauty products.

Walgreens and CVS stocks plummet as Dr. Amazon buys an online prescription service

Amazon.com Inc. said this morning it will acquire PillPack, an online pharmacy service licensed in all 50 states.

Flu symptoms? Walgreens is using 2018 prescription data to track activity with this map

As we wrote earlier this week, this year’s flu season is the worst since the CDC began keeping track in the early 2000s, but the CDC isn’t the only one with a handy map to monitor flu activity. The folks at Walgreens have figured out a pretty interesting way to map out which areas in … Continue reading “Flu symptoms? Walgreens is using 2018 prescription data to track activity with this map”

Why You Can’t Get Rich Inventing The Banana Split

The creator of the banana split never received royalties. Because ideas in food belong to culture.

User Experience Is The Heart Of Any Company. How Do You Make It Top Priority?

If you start with “useful” as a first principle, then you automatically place customer need and experience first, writes Wolff Olins’s Mary Ellen Muckerman.

Earth Hour 2011: What Businesses Are Participating, Which Are Trying But Failing

Most Innovative Companies – Health Care

From General Electric to PatientsLikeMe, our picks for the top companies in health care.

Business in Front, Wellness in Back: Walgreens’ New Diabetes Program Makes Customers Patients

Rite Aid’s “Free” $500 Health Screening

Why Walgreens Is Building Its Own Universal Health-Care System

Walgreens, the $59 billion drugstore giant, is building its own universal health-care system, with more than 700 retail and corporate clinics.