U.S. pharmacies strike first deals with counties over opioids

Pharmacy operators Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc(WBA.O), CVS Health Corp(CVS.N), Rite Aid Corp(RAD.N) and Walmart Inc(WMT.N) have agreed to pay a combined $26 million to settle claims by two New York counties that they fueled an opioid addiction epidemic.
Factbox: The challenges facing Amazon’s new CEO, Andy Jassy

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday got a new chief executive: Andy Jassy, the mastermind behind its lucrative cloud computing division, who succeeds company founder Jeff Bezos.
U.S., European suppliers scramble to secure Christmas goods as cargo delays worsen

Suppliers to Walmart (WMT.N), Target (TGT.N), Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and other major retailers told Reuters they are placing holiday orders for Chinese-made merchandise weeks earlier this year, as a global shipping backlog threatens to leave many gift buyers empty-handed this Christmas shopping season.
EXCLUSIVE Online wholesale marketplace Faire raises $260 mln, valued at $7 bln

Online wholesale marketplace Faire said on Thursday it raised $260 million in its latest funding round and is now valued at $7 billion, thanks to the fast growth in e-commerce following the pandemic.
Walmart’s Flipkart in talks to raise $3 bln from SoftBank, others – Bloomberg News

Walmart Inc-owned (WMT.N) Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart is in talks to raise at least $3 billion from investors including Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) and several sovereign wealth funds, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.