{"id":327,"date":"2015-02-12T11:23:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=327"},"modified":"2015-02-12T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:23:03","slug":"rite-aid-fights-back-against-the-behemoth-cvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Rite-Aid Fights Back Against The Behemoth CVS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-media3.fl.yelpcdn.com\/bphoto\/JaVc1VytlOYA_-eOLqYn1A\/ls.jpg\" alt=\"Rite Aid - Laguna Woods, CA, United States\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a start, but yesterday it was announced that Rite-Aid was buying Envision RX, a pharmacy benefits manager for around $2 billion dollars. \u00a0 Nowhere near what CVS did when they bought Caremark for around $21 billion, but they&#8217;ve apparently noticed what it&#8217;s done for CVS&#8217;s profits and are jumping on board.<\/p>\n<p>Their stock jumped 6.6% yesterday and it&#8217;s pretty amazing coming from a company that had so much debt not so long ago.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s a matter of time before all of the PBM&#8217;s are owned by drug store chains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a start, but yesterday it was announced that Rite-Aid was buying Envision RX, a pharmacy benefits manager for around $2 billion dollars. \u00a0 Nowhere near what CVS did when they bought Caremark for around $21 billion, but they&#8217;ve apparently noticed what it&#8217;s done for CVS&#8217;s profits and are jumping on board. Their stock jumped <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=327\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-companies","category-retail-trends"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}