AUSTIN, Texas — H-E-B has opened a new technology center here that also serves as the new headquarters for Favor, its wholly owned on-demand delivery subsidiary. The new facility, known as the Eastside Tech Hub, represents another step toward fulfilling the regional grocer’s ambition to become the digital industry leader in Texas. The rapidly growing
AUSTIN — H-E-B on Monday announced the opening of its Eastside Tech Hub here, an 80,000-square-foot office that will house its growing digital team and also serve as the new headquarters for its Favor on-demand delivery subsidiary. The new facility will accelerate the retailer’s efforts to become a digital industry leader in Texas, H-E-B officials
CHICAGO — Trader Joe’s was again the top-rated grocer in the second annual dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index (RPI), a study that ranks the nation’s 56 largest grocery retailers by a score that takes seven factors into account: price, quality, digital, operations, convenience, discounts/rewards and speed. The retailers who focus their business on superior value perception
SAN ANTONIO — H-E-B has hired technology executive Mike Georgoff to lead the regional grocer’s digital-product strategy and help drive its omnichannel development. Georgoff over the past decade has worked with a trio of consumer-technology startups that ultimately went public and grew into billion-dollar-plus companies, H-E-B said in a statement announcing Georgoff’s appointment as chief
SAN ANTONIO — Regional supermarket operator H-E-B is acquiring Austin-based on-demand delivery service Favor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. H-E-B said the deal will help it become a digital industry leader in Texas, giving its customers more choices about how they shop, pay for and receive products. “I am thrilled to have H-E-B
DALLAS — H-E-B has revealed that it plans to open two more Central Market stores in this city, bringing its total in the market to four. “We have had our eye on these two prime locations for many years,” said Stephen Butt, senior vice president at the Central Market division. “Central Market takes a very
SAN ANTONIO — H-E-B has earned full accreditation to deliver specialty pharmacy clinical services to patients with complex and chronic diseases in more than 260 stores across Texas. The food and drug retailer said the H-E-B Specialty Pharmacy division has received Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation from the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC), a Washington, D.C.-based health
BOSTON — Telling pharmacy’s story to the public and to policy makers is a long-standing priority of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, so it’s no surprise that the organization used its 2016 Total Store Expo (TSE) here this month to update its message. The story that pharmacy professionals need to be telling is
PALM BEACH, Fla. — In his first remarks as chairman of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Martin Otto outlined the challenges facing the American health care system, which is characterized by higher costs and poorer outcomes than those of many other developed countries. “There are a lot of structural issues in the health
Walmart has begun closing stores, as the retailer had previously announced. Most of the closings involve the Express stores the company began opening over the past two years in the belief that it could more successfully compete with the likes of such small-store retailers as drug and dollar stores with convenience-oriented stores than the big
WILTON, Conn. – Walmart is the top retailer and Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) is the top manufacturer in the 2015 PoweRanking from consulting firm Kantar Retail LLC. Each has led its respective category for more than a decade, noted Kantar, which launched the survey in the late 1990s with the aim of identifying industry