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Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG), d/b/a Walgreens (without an apostrophe), is a leading pharmacy chain, mail service pharmacy, pharmacy benefit manager, and specialty pharmacy which has operations in 49 states and Puerto Rico. There are 6,000+ Walgreens (as of October 2007) in operation with a current goal to have 7,000 stores by 2010. Of the 6,000+ Walgreens locations, about 1,650 of them are open 24-hours, including the pharmacy. Over 4.7 million customers are served by Walgreens daily chain-wide and over 580 million prescription scripts are filled annually. Walgreens was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1901 and has since expanded throughout the United States. Its headquarters is located in Deerfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Its main competitors are CVS/pharmacy, Wal-Mart, Rite Aid as well as Target Corporation and primarily Osco. Image File history File links Walgreens_Logo. ...
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CVS/Caremark Corporation, NYSE: CVS is an integrated pharmacy services provider, combining one of the nations leading pharmaceutical services companies with the country’s largest pharmacy chain. ...
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A typical Walgreens store is about 14,500 square feet with 11,000 square feet of sales area. They offer nearly 25,000 items for sale and typically staff between 25 and 30 people per store. On average, one store pulls in $8.5 million in annual sales. Most stores include a pharmacy, a photo lab, a cosmetics counter, and a general merchandise area. Select stores in metropolitan Chicago, Florida, Atlanta, Kansas City, Las Vegas, and St. Louis now include Walgreens TakeCare Health Clinics where certified (primarily nurse practitioners, and in some states, registered pharmacist) staff diagnose, treat, and prescribe for common illnesses and can also issue vaccinations and physicals in select locations. These clinics are open 7 days a week; including evenings and weekends with no appointments necessary and with acceptance of most major insurance plans. If a patient uses the TakeCare Clinic, their prescription is automatically processed through Walgreens' Intercom Plus Pharmacy System as a waiting prescription, so in most stores, the prescription is ready to be picked up in 15 to 20 minutes. This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ...
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History
Beginnings
 A typical Walgreens Pharmacy. The Walgreens chain began as a drug store owned by Charles R. Walgreen, Sr.. [1] After he died, his son Charles R. Walgreen Jr. took over and ran the chain until his retirement. The Charles R. Walgreen Jr. years were relatively prosperous, but lacked the massive expansion seen in the early part of the company. Charles "Cork" R. Walgreen III took over after Jr's retirement in the early 1970s, and brought the company through many modern initiatives, including the switch to a computer inventory based system (bar code scanning). The Walgreen family was not involved in senior management of the company for a short period following Charles' retirement. In 1995, Kevin P. Walgreen was made a vice-president and promoted to Senior Vice-President of Operations - Southern Division in 2006. [2] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1153x768, 233 KB) Summary (c) Walgreen Co. ...
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Charles Rudolph Walgreen (1873–1939) was a United States drugstore businessman. ...
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Related ventures Walgreens formerly owned Sanborns, the largest pharmacy chain in Mexico, having purchased Sanborns from Frank Sanborn in 1946 and selling it to Grupo Carso in 1985. [3] In Mexico, few companies are as steeped in history as Grupo Sanborns. ...
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Grupo Carso is a conglomerate of companies owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. ...
In the 1980s, Walgreens owned and operated a chain of casual family restaurants named Wag's, a belated attempt to compete with Woolworth’s lunch counters. The Wag's restaurants were very similar in concept to Denny's. Walgreens sold most of these to Marriott Corporation in 1988[4] and by 1991 the chain had completely gone out of business. Wags was a chain of casual dining/family restaurants owned and operated by Walgreens in the 1980s. ...
The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworths) was a retail company that was one of the original American five-and-dime stores. ...
Dennys is the largest full-service family restaurant chain in the United States. ...
Marriott Corporation was incorprated in 1929 as Hot Shoppes, Inc. ...
Walgreens is a sponsor of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and co-produced the Ron Santo documentary This Old Cub. It was created to help kids with diabetes This article needs to be wikified. ...
Ronald Edward Santo (born February 25, 1940 in Seattle, Washington) is a former third baseman in Major League Baseball who played almost his entire career with the Chicago Cubs. ...
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Contributions to popular culture Walgreens claims responsibility for the popularization of the malted milkshake (or at least its version of the malted milkshake), invented by Ivar "Pop" Coulson in 1922 [5], although milkshakes and malted milk had been around for some time before. This development coincided with the invention of the electric blender in the same year. A strawberry milkshake topped with whipped cream and strawberry syrup A milkshake is a sweet, cold beverage which is made from milk, ice cream, and sweet flavourings such as fruit syrup or chocolate sauce (in Canada and most regions of the United States, and the United Kingdom. ...
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Recent Expansion The 1,000th Walgreen’s store, located at the intersection of Dearborn & Division in Chicago, opened at 9:00 a.m. on September 6, 1984. The ribbon cutting ceremony was presided over by Illinois Governor James R. Thompson and the movie superstar Cary Grant. Walgreens opened its 3000th store in Chicago in 2000. Its 4000th store opened in 2003 in Van Nuys, California, and most recently Walgreens opened its 5000th store in Richmond, Virginia in October of 2005. In October 2007, The Walgreen Company opened its six thousandth store in New Orleans, Louisiana. List of Illinois Governors Categories: Lists of United States governors | Governors of Illinois ...
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Walgreens recently acquired the Happy Harry's chain of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. Happy Harrys, a Walgreens Pharmacy, is a division of the Walgreens Company which operates 76 locations in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. ...
In 2003 Walgreens purchased 16 locations of the Vancouver, Washington based Hi-School Pharmacy Inc. stores, including the original Hi-School Pharmacy location in Vancouver, and converted them to Walgreens. For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). ...
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With the notable exceptions mentioned above, Walgreens expansion is different than that of competitors CVS/pharmacy and Rite Aid in that the company mostly expands by opening new stores in new markets instead of takeovers and acquisitions. This may actually benefit Walgreens in the long run, as both CVS and Rite Aid have experienced problems with this. CVS now has duplicate stores in Chicagoland after acquiring Albertsons's Osco Drugs chain while Rite Aid has several duplicate stores in the Mid-Atlantic region (more notably Pennsylvania) after its recent acquisition of Eckerd Pharmacy, and was only forced to sell off or close a handful of stores to meet regulations. Walgreens did buy a Rite Aid location in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, as well as 5 other locations as a result of the Eckerd/Rite Aid deal. CVS/pharmacy is a pharmacy and convenience store chain in the United States. ...
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Chicagoland is an informal name for the Chicago metropolitan area, used primarily by copywriters, advertising agencies, native residents, and traffic reporters. ...
Albertsons LLC is a North American grocery company based in Boise, Idaho with more than 350 supermarkets located throughout the Southwestern, Mountain, and Great Plains states, and Florida under the Albertsons, County Line Liquor, Grocery Warehouse, Max Foods, Super Saver Foods banners[1]. While Albertsons LLC is majority-owned...
Osco Drug is a chain pharmacy acquired by Jewel Tea and owned by Albertsons. ...
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Eckerd Pharmacy was a drug store chain with more than 1,549 stores in more than 13 states across the Mid-Atlantic and New England portions of the United States. ...
Zelienople is a borough located in Butler County, Pennsylvania, 28 miles (45 km) north of Pittsburgh. ...
On July 12, 2006, David Bernauer stepped down as CEO of Walgreens and was replaced by company president, Jeff Rein. Holding degrees in accounting and pharmacy from the University of Arizona, Rein was a pharmacist, store manager, district manager, and treasurer prior to being named Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Greg Wasson, former President of Walgreens Health Services, was named President and Chief Operations Officer. is the 193rd day of the year (194th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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David Bernauer is currently the Chairman and CEO of Walgreens Early life and education Bernauer was raised in Northern Minnesota, the son of a JC Penney Department Store Manager. ...
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Walgreens currently has plans to open its first store in Hawai'i. The store, located in Honolulu, is on track to be completed before November 2007. In the future, the company plans to operate 25-30 stores in the state on its various islands.
Walgreens Health Services (WHS) -
Walgreens Health Services [9], established in 1991, is a growing patient-care oriented business unit providing pharmacy benefit management (PBM), mail service pharmacy, home care, and specialty pharmacy services. Its primary division, Walgreens Health Initiatives (WHI), is a PBM whose client list contains over 400 health plans, employer groups, third parties, unions, government entities, and other types of organizations. WHI currently covers the prescription insurance benefits of 13.5 million individuals in a retail network of over 63,000 pharmacies. Walgreens Health Services (WHS) is a business unit of Walgreens. ...
Walgreens Health Services (WHS) is a business unit of Walgreens. ...
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Walgreens Health Services (WHS) is a business unit of Walgreens. ...
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Store model Originally, Walgreens stores were connected to local groceries, for example in Chicago, which is Walgreens primary market, they teamed up with either Eagle Food Centers or Dominick's Finer Foods, usually with a "walkthru" to the ajoining store and often sharing personnel. This concept was instated to compete with the popular dual store format used by chief competitor Jewel-Osco. Eventually, they ended the relationship with Eagle and focused primarily on a connection to the Dominick's stores, which were considered to be of a better quality. PharmX-Rexall stepped in and filled the vacated Walgreen locations joined to Eagle stores. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1600x1200, 342 KB) Photo by Nick Juhasz. ...
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Uptown Houston Uptown Houston, or the Uptown District, is mainly centered around the the Galleria, the largest and most prestigious shopping mall in Houston. ...
The Eagle Food Store in Dubuque during the 1965 Floods Eagle Food Centers was a chain of supermarkets that operated in Iowa and Illinois for a number of years. ...
Dominicks is a grocery store chain based mainly in the Chicago area. ...
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In its current business model, new Walgreens locations are most commonly set up as freestanding locations at the corners of busy, intersecting streets -- literally making it a "corner drugstore" similar to how many independent pharmacies evolved over the years in the United States. This also usually allows the store to offer additional conveniences such as a drive-thru pharmacy and 24-hour shopping that would not be possible in the average shopping mall. Walgreens also offers "auto refill". Customers can have their prescriptions automatically refilled each month for no additional charge. Walgreens sells freshly brewed drip coffees, Icees, and fountain beverages at select stores, as part of the pilot "Café W" program. Over 3000 locations have equipment to refill inkjet cartridges. As of March 2007, Walgreens has introduced flat pricing, $10 for black, and $15 for color.[6] For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see pedestrian street or promenade. ...
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Walgreens facts - Walgreens is the nation's leading drugstore in sales, earnings, growth, same-store sales increases, prescription drug market share, and prescription sales per store, and first on the list of Global Most Admired Companies in the food and drugstore category.[7]
- Walgreens opens on average one store every 17 hours.[8]
- The company plans to have 7000 stores by 2010.[9]
- Walgreens fills over one million prescriptions every day[10]
- Nearly 30% of Walgreens stores are open 24-hours[11]
- Walgreens accounts for 14% of all retail prescriptions dispensed in the United States[12]
- Walgreens has invested more than $1 billion in advanced systems and technology[13]
- Walgreens is the largest private user of satellite transmission data in the world, second only to the U. S. Government[14]
- Walgreens was the first drug store chain to utilize drive through pick up windows for prescriptions.[citation needed]
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