The purchase offers CVS a relatively low - cost entry into the lucrative Sun Belt markets currently dominated by Walgreens, but «given the difficulty inherent in retail turnarounds, CVS has
an immense challenge in front of it in terms of upgrading Eckerd stores to the point where they can compete head - on with Walgreens stores in hotly contested markets,» says John Ransom, an equity analyst at Raymond James.
The World Bank has seized upon the
immense challenges climate change poses to humanity and is now
front and center
in the complicated, international world
of carbon finance.