Suppliers invited to participate in a localization summit
DEERFIELD, Unwell. — Walgreens strategies to hold a virtual function on February 22 to give assorted, community and regional firms and business people from about the country an chance to join with the retailer’s merchandising group, share their offerings, and quite possibly get their goods stocked on Walgreens keep cabinets in their nearby locations.
The merchandising function — the retailer’s second annual localization summit — will aim on goods across this sort of classes as grocery and house, clothing, seaside, tourism and normal goods. Suppliers can obtain extra information and facts about the virtual function and implement to go to below.
Setting up on the results of past year’s localization summit, Walgreens aims to carry in community enterprises from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, to assess possibilities to establish much more regionally related product or service choices for Walgreens customers and further collaboration with new suppliers for the foreseeable future.
“To be a trusted well being and very well-becoming desired destination, we function tough to stay relevant for clients in each and every of our communities and curate a assortment of products and products and services that meet their exceptional desires,” said Luke Rauch, Walgreens’ main merchandising officer and senior vice president. “When our shelves reflect the communities we provide, we can greater reside out our function of extra joyful lives by means of improved well being.”
All sourcing and product or service submissions will be built by way of RangeMe, the on line product discovery and sourcing platform. Walgreens will assessment submissions and will invite picked suppliers for confront-to-face virtual meetings with purchasers on ECRM’s virtual conference system, ECRM Connect.