Inside This Issue - Opinion

Simon’s what Walmart needed

It’s been a while since a personnel change in the retail community has had the initial, and initially positive, impact that the elevation of Bill Simon to president and chief executive officer of Walmart U.S. has exerted on both the retailer’s workforce and the mass retail community.

Drug chains pursue new urban strategy

Amid much fanfare, Walgreen Co. earlier this month opened a store featuring an expanded assortment of products usually associated with supermarkets in a so-called food desert on the South Side of Chicago.