Walgreens In The News
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  1-13-11, 1:39am | Post
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From today's Trib...
Walgreens To Expand Fresh Food Offerings At Stores By Bruce Japsen Posted yesterday at 5:36 p.m. Walgreen Co. plans to expand its fresh food offerings in several hundred stores in coming years, company chief executive officer Greg Wasson told shareholders this afternoon. Addressing 2,500 shareholders at the company’s annual meeting at Navy Pier on Chicago’s lakefront, Wasson said such stores fit the company’s strategy to evolve from a “retail drugstore to a retail ‘health and daily living store.’” Walgreen Co., which offers more and more health and wellness needs, began to test out fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables last year, particularly in poor urban markets where access to healthy food choices is a problem. “Our intent is to own outright the strategic territory of ‘well,’” Wasson told shareholders. “Our goal is to help people live well, stay well and get well.” The Deerfield-based drug store chain unveiled its first fresh-food format in August at its 67th Street and Stony Island Avenue store on Chicago’s South Side, the culmination of a year-long effort to bring groceries to the city’s food deserts. The fresh foods go beyond convenience items that Walgreens has carried for years, such as milk and orange juice. The test stores offer more than 750 new products, including fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen meat and fish, pasta, rice, beans, eggs and whole-grain cereals. There are 10 such stores in Chicago. Meeting with reporters after the shareholders meeting, Wasson said all of the company’s stores across the country would be getting more fresh foods but the company was specifically targeting 300 to 500 markets across the country where there is potential to offer new products in so-called “food deserts,” areas of the country that lack supermarkets and access to fresh foods. Expansion will vary by store and location, Wasson said. Before Walgreens can implement a large scale expansion, Wasson said the company needed to upgrade its “supply chain infrastructure.” Walgreens executives say the fresh foods fits the company’s strategy, which will also include stepping up efforts to expand health care services in areas that “don’t have access to medical services,” said Walgreens president of pharmacy services Kermit Crawford. For example, Crawford said Walgreens will continue to expand the menu of vaccines offered at its pharmacies beyond seasonal flu vaccinations. The company now has 26,000 pharmacists that are certified in states across the country as immunizers. In recent years, Walgreens has lobbied state public health departments to get regulatory approval for its pharmacists to immunize consumers with a variety of vaccines. This, Crawford says, is a strategy that will be more in demand given the nation’s shortage of primary care physicians. “Somebody has to fill that space,” Crawford told the Tribune after the shareholders meeting. Link now dead...but another story... Walgreens Targets 'Food Deserts' In Cities This post has been edited by kar522: 1-23-12, 3:03am |
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1-13-11, 6:38am | Post
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IMHO, Wags would be far better financially pushing various 24 ozers instead of rabbit food in these "food deserts". When the weather is good, the street out front will get me to I-70 by driving north. Yes, I will pass three grocery stores, including a Schnucks, plug a Wags; but I alos will see couple snow cone vendors on the street and one or two folks selling BBQ ribs straight from a 55 gal. smoker.
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3-24-11, 6:03am | Post
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QUOTE Walgreen to spend about $429M for drugstore.com Drugstore operator Walgreen Co. says it will spend about $429 million to buy online retailer drugstore.com in a deal that gives it access to 3 million online customers. The largest U.S. drugstore operator will give drugstore.com shareholders $3.80 in cash for each share of stock in a deal it expects to close by the end of June. The acquisition will add about 60,000 products to Walgreen's online offerings, and the company says it will significantly speed up its online strategy. The per-share deal price represents a premium of 113 percent over the $1.79 closing price of drugstore.com's stock on Wednesday. Walgreen says it will fund the deal with existing cash. Drugstore.com shareholders still must approve the acquisition, but the Bellevue, Wash., company's board has already unanimously approved it. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_...-03-24-08-45-25 |
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7-19-11, 12:56am | Post
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7-19-11, 7:17am | Post
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Wow! That was all that I ever wanted to know about Wags... and then some!
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8-11-11, 3:42am | Post
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Walgreens Will Sell Health Insurance
So says a news report. As a result of health care reform, plenty of companies that don't sell insurance plan to start. I wonder if they'll generate RRs... 
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8-11-11, 5:26am | Post
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I'm more incline to think that a discount will given on the premiums by providing your AARP number.
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8-17-11, 11:15pm | Post
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Nice! Touch Comes To Walgreens Shelves As Store Brands Get Makeover
400 items scheduled for rollout in coming months at all 7,742 drugstores owned company This post has been edited by kar522: 10-30-11, 10:23pm |
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8-18-11, 5:27am | Post
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I looked at a couple Nice items the other day. The boxes that contain dried fruit look the same size as the old packages, except the net weight has decreased. Hopefully, the 'old' stuff is put on clearance.
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10-30-11, 10:23pm | Post
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10-31-11, 11:03am | Post
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12-30-11, 10:33pm | Post
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1-9-12, 10:09am | Post
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Walgreen's Opening New Flagship Store Downtown
New concept will offer manicures, eyebrow-shaping, a barista, made-to-order sushi, a juice and smoothie bar, self-serve frozen yogurt and even a humidor I remember the old store @ this location fondly...There was a huge cafeteria in the basement...and I still have the Tiki god necklace I bought there around 1962... |
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1-9-12, 12:32pm | Post
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Locally, S.S. Kresge stores were the only '5 & 10' type chains that were multi-floors. I went with grandma by (city) bus to downtown to shop on a Friday. We stopped at a multi-floor' Kresge; but I was still a little kid. Now the family use to shop often at an 'open' mall where a split Kresge use to be located. Escalators got you between floors; but the nearby Famous-Barr had elevators, since the building was multi-floors, along with two sets of exterior concrete stairs that were part of the mall. What was weird is that most refer to the lower level of Famous as the 'basement'.
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1-9-12, 1:16pm | Post
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Walgreens Has Record Signup of Nearly 125,000 Customers in First Week of New Year for Prescription Savings Club
Company reports record sign-up days as pharmacy patients under insurance plans managed by Express Scripts look for alternatives |
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1-12-12, 2:05am | Post
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1-12-12, 7:22am | Post
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QUOTE (kar522 @ 1-12-12, 4:05am)  While checking the current ad for the Dierbergs chain, which rank #3 in this area, there was a rotating ad for pharmacy cashiers/techs for some of the stores. I'm going to assume that Dierbergs management hope to poach customers who got left out in the cold by Wags and the local bully (Express Scripts) This post has been edited by kas: 1-12-12, 7:23am |
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1-14-12, 4:50am | Post
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Walgreens Accused Of Coupon Fraud
Lawsuit: Nation's largest drugstore chain sought money for fraudulent coupons I guess Imagenetix does not know about the finer points of rolling RRs @ the register... QUOTE These coupons were like they had been freshly minted. They had never been out in the public, in someone’s pocket or purse or bag.” |
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1-14-12, 8:00am | Post
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QUOTE (kar522 @ 1-14-12, 6:50am) Walgreens Accused Of Coupon Fraud Lawsuit: Nation's largest drugstore chain sought money for fraudulent coupons I guess Imagenetix does not know about the finer points of rolling RRs @ the register... Perhaps clueless Tanya should do a little OJT before typing on her Mac. Not one time is Catalina Marketing mentioned in her article. If some clueless and lazy Wags cashier forget to replace the roll of paper or turn the paper back on and the manager is useless, I'm calling Catalina Marketing for help. Often a good Wag manager when faced with a RR problem will wind up loading the amount on a Wags GC. By the way, usually when I get a replacement RR from Catalina Marketing, the slip is similar to the RR one would receive in the store. The primary difference is the RR is valid for two weeks pass when it was generated by a CM employee. Since Catalina Marketing is a service business and management probably want to mantain a good rep, wouldn't they notice if folks at Wags were playing fast and loose. Since the article reads like Wags distribution centers broke open cases and limited the par (quanttiy on hand) for each store, I get the impression from Tanya that someone was standing at a register ringing up a package of Celadrin Inflame Away softgels, over and over again, to generate a $10 RR from that CM machine. Unless I've a MQ to eat up the tax, I don't do these type of deal. Thanks to P&G putting out a $4 MQ, I got a 'fat' bag of heads that fit a Fusion handle. Yes, I was green and recycle all the plastic, including handle. What made this RR offer a winner for me, was that I could take the overage from the (>100) P&G RR and use the money to buy various things, usually on sale, at Wags. A couple of Wags managers went ape $#1+ when I was using a MQ to get a diabetic meter for nothing and a $10 or more RR was generated by the CM machine.  Finally, if the weather is bad or I get side track, I've forgotten to use an RR and both the company which name is on the RR and Wags come out a winner at my expensive.
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1-17-12, 7:39am | Post
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1-17-12, 5:25pm | Post
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Wow that's impressive! (A cash cow as well!)
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1-30-12, 1:10pm | Post
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3-8-12, 5:31pm | Post
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3-28-12, 9:45am | Post
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In news the lamestream media, especially the clueless and useless at MSN, just forgot about, http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012...s-Ransack-Store
I bet hardly anyone who discuss this incident at Walgreens HQ today lives in Congressman Rush's district. Bobby Rush is the Chicago clown who appeared before a committee in a hoodie and got told by the chairman to get a steppin' QUOTE Students in Trayvon Martin walkout damage drugstore About 100 students who walked out of class at North Miami Beach Senior High School in honor of Trayvon Martin, the Miami Gardens teenager who was shot to death last month in Sanford, ended up ransacking a Walgreens drugstore, breaking displays and merchandise, North Miami Beach police said. The students walked out of school about 11 a.m. Friday in an otherwise peaceful demonstration, according to a statement emailed by police. Walgreens surveillance cameras rolled as the students flooded the store and ran through the aisles. At one point, the school’s assistant principal entered the store to try to get the students to leave. They soon begin streaming out of the store and back into the street. Police and store officials this week were not sure whether anything was stolen because the ransacking was not caught by the cameras, according to police. The students caused about $150 worth of damage in broken shelving and merchandise, officials said. Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/28/2718...l#storylink=cpy http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/28/2718...in-walkout.html http://rush.house.gov/our-district/map-district Above are the boundaries of Rush's district. A fine example of (Demorats in Springfield) Gerrymandering 101 This post has been edited by kas: 3-28-12, 9:51am |
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6-27-12, 7:30am | Post
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7-5-12, 9:54pm | Post
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Walgreen To Buy Drug Chains, Same-Store Sales Fall
QUOTE The acquisition of USA Drug, Super D Drug, May's Drug, Med-X and Drug Warehouse Stores comes weeks after Walgreen said it would take a 45 percent stake in Europe's Alliance Boots Holdings Ltd and possibly buy the rest of it in a few years.
The latest deal, which includes stores in Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee, should close around September 1. |
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