CVS Pharmacy

National chains are searching for pharmacists in Arkansas, with one offering a $50,000 signing bonus and another reducing store hours because of a shortage of workers. read more >

Walmart faces allegations that its abuse of the discovery process, a reliable legal tactic, clogs the process even more frequently than other top companies. read more >

Waldo’s Chicken & Beer will not be setting up shop at 101 S. Bowman Road, although the property’s new ownership includes some names behind the rollout of as many as 20 of the franchised eateries in Arkansas and Oklahoma. read more >

An affiliate of CVS Pharmacy purchased the Lakewood Exxon at 2501 McCain Blvd. The seller is C&E Investments LLC, led by Jimmy and Vanessa Crossfield. read more >

A future CVS Pharmacy site in North Little Rock, a 5,351-SF home in west Pulaski County, a 21-unit complex in Little Rock, nine rental properties in Conway and a 4,522-SF home in west Little Rock combine for this week’s installment of multimillion-dollar real estate transactions. read more >

McCain Mall last week sued David’s Burgers alleging the burgeoning central Arkansas burger chain failed to open a location in the North Little Rock mall as promised. read more >

The 74-bed assisted living center in west Little Rock was bought by an affiliate of Mainstreet Health Investments of Carmel, Indiana. read more >

A pharmacy, business center, industrial project and store in Little Rock joined an office-warehouse property in North Little Rock to form a five-piece of multimillion-dollar real estate transactions this week. read more >

Commercial property in Conway and farmland in Lonoke County form this week’s five-piece of multimillion-dollar transactions. read more >

A Detroit investor paid $4.56 million for the CVS Pharmacy at 2001 S. Thompson St. in Springdale. read more >

An investment group paid $3.2 million for 13 condominiums in the Legacy Building at 401 W. Watson St. in Fayetteville. read more >

New Frontier Hospitality LLC, led by Dilep and Vitesh Patel, bought the Quality Suites at 14322 Frontier Drive. read more >

Two Little Rock properties, an office building and a commercial site, provide this week’s dynamic duo of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >

CVS Pharmacy has purchased 1.73 acres of property at University Avenue and 12th Street in Little Rock, the office of commercial real estate firm Sage Partners announced Friday. read more >

More than 570 acres in Lonoke County, 37 residential lots in Saline County, land for a commercial redevelopment in Benton and a big home in west Little Rock provide this week’s quartet of million-dollar transactions. read more >

The sale of a 24,817-SF office building in Little Rock’s Riverdale area tipped the scales at $2.87 million. A 7,847-SF office building in west Little Rock is under new ownership after a $1 million sale. And a 10,043-SF warehouse and land in North Little Rock changed hands in an $805,000 transaction. read more >

A new quartet of million-dollar deals in Faulkner County has formed. Out front is the $4 million sale of a Walgreens at 850 Oak St. in Conway. read more >

The battle over mobile payment platforms is heating up. On one side is Apple Pay, which launched Oct. 20 and encourages users to pay for merchandise with Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Its rival is the payment system backed by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville and about 50 other retailers: CurrentC, created by a joint venture called MCX, the Merchant Customer Exchange of Boston. read more >

Mathias Shopping Centers Inc. of Springdale did a $2.5 million swap with Five Forty Properties LLC of Little Rock. And CVS Caremark Corp. of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is scheduled to begin construction later this month on a pharmacy in Springdale. read more >

CVS Caremark Corp. of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is wading deeper into the Arkansas market, and some locations plan to sell beer and wine. read more >