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Is Walgreens Open On Thanksgiving 2019?

Is Walgreens Open On Thanksgiving 2019?

Walgreens will be open on Thanksgiving Day and will keep regular store hours. Most stores will open at 9 a.m. and close at 10 p.m. In addition, more than 1,600 Walgreens 24-hour locations will be open around the clock. Pharmacies located inside these 24-hour stores will also be open for any of your prescription needs. […]

5y ago

Walgreens, CVS Join Walmart, Other Retailers, In Asking Customers Not To Open Carry In Their Stores

Walgreens, CVS Join Walmart, Other Retailers, In Asking Customers Not To Open Carry In Their Stores

The drugstore chains CVS and Walgreens announced on Thursday that they are asking customers not to openly carry weapons inside of their stores, CNN reports. The two pharmacies join Walmart, Kroger, and Wegmans in enacting similar policies. In a statement, CVS said that the move comes amid concerns about the safety of its customers inside […]

5y ago

Walgreens Will Bring CBD Products To 1,500 Stores

Walgreens Will Bring CBD Products To 1,500 Stores

Walgreens announced on Wednesday that it will soon begin selling CBD-based products in almost 1,500 stores across a swath of states, according to CNBC. Cannabidiol, or CBD for short, is a non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis (marijuana) and thought by some to alleviate ailments like anxiety, pain, and seizures — though there’s no conclusive research […]

5y ago

Fred’s To Complete Prescription File Transfer To Walgreens

Fred’s To Complete Prescription File Transfer To Walgreens

Walgreens has been buying and partnering up for the last several years to expand their business, capabilities, and customer base. A global marketing communications partnership with Alliance Boots proved to be highly beneficial for the corporation. Most recently, Walgreens Boots Alliances and WPP bought out Rite Aid, even further expanding their hold on the pharmaceutical […]

5y ago

Florida Files Suit Against Walgreens, CVS For Opioid Crisis

Florida Files Suit Against Walgreens, CVS For Opioid Crisis

Florida’s State Attorney General has filed suit against pharmacy giants Walgreens and CVS for “unconscionable efforts to increase the demand and supply of opioids into” the state, according to NPR. Pam Bondi, the state’s Attorney General, announced through her office that the two chains have been added to a lawsuit filed in May against opioid […]

6y ago

Walgreens Is Striving To Be Seen As A Healthcare Company

Walgreens Is Striving To Be Seen As A Healthcare Company

According to CNBC, Walgreens is making moves to be seen as more than just a retailer. The company wishes to be seen as a full blown healthcare outlet. Currently, Walgreens is still largely only a pharmacy chain, while competing pharmacy CVS is acquiring insurer Aetna and is already touting its own company as a healthcare […]

6y ago

CVS & Glamsquad Team Up To Bring You Blowouts & Prescriptions All In One Place

CVS & Glamsquad Team Up To Bring You Blowouts & Prescriptions All In One Place

A new strategy by the drugstore chain CVS will include a concept they are naming BeautyIRL (IRL means “in real life”). The new focal point of the drugstore’s concept will be to incorporate express beauty services into regular consumer shopping. The BeautyIRL life is meant to serve as a “store-within-a-store” beauty format, says Drug Store […]

6y ago

A Walgreens Pharmacist Refused To Fill A Woman’s Prescription For Miscarriage Medication, Citing Beliefs

A Walgreens Pharmacist Refused To Fill A Woman’s Prescription For Miscarriage Medication, Citing Beliefs

An Arizona woman says that a Walgreens pharmacist refused to give her abortion-inducing medication, citing his personal beliefs. However, the woman’s fetus had already died and the medicine was intended to help her expel it. Still, the pharmacist refused to give her the medicine, and now the woman’s story is going viral. As WTSP-TV reports, […]

6y ago

Elderly Florida Walgreens Customer Knocked Out Cold [Surveillance Video]

Elderly Florida Walgreens Customer Knocked Out Cold [Surveillance Video]

A 68-year-old Walgreens customer suffered a broken jaw and bleeding in the brain after he was allegedly assaulted just outside the front entrance of the Dania Beach, Florida, pharmacy on July 4. The victim, identified by local media as Anthony DePaul, is listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit at a local Broward […]

7y ago

Are Walgreens And Rite Aid Open On Christmas Day 2016? Sunday’s Pharmacy Store Hours And Merger Update

Are Walgreens And Rite Aid Open On Christmas Day 2016? Sunday’s Pharmacy Store Hours And Merger Update

Many people are wondering if various stores including Walgreens and Rite Aid are open on Christmas Day 2016? The two pharmacy stores are going to be merging soon, but there will be plenty of customers who might need to get out to the stores in their areas. It could mean picking up last minute gifts […]

7y ago

When It Comes To Halloween, Walgreens And Dollar Stores Pick Up Walmart’s Slack

When It Comes To Halloween, Walgreens And Dollar Stores Pick Up Walmart’s Slack

To many, the most wonderful time of the year is here. Meaning that the Halloween spirit is looming over Walgreens — sometimes even off-season — and dollar stores across America, putting Walmart’s shoddy selection to shame for yet another year in a row. That’s right! Walmart. Once the envy of the Halloween decorations world; one […]

8y ago

Walgreens Pharmacy Cuts Relationship With Theranos, Closing 40 Wellness Centers

Walgreens Pharmacy Cuts Relationship With Theranos, Closing 40 Wellness Centers

Walgreens, the major drug store chain that has seemingly made other franchise drugstores obsolete, is beginning to flex its rather large muscles. This time, according to CNBC, Walgreens said that they would be ending their relationship with the Silicon Valley-based blood-testing company Theranos. #Walgreens Finally Walked. Here's Why That's So Bad For #Theranos – https://t.co/EkDqufDKE2 […]

8y ago

Walgreens Buying Rite Aid For $17.2 Billion

Walgreens Buying Rite Aid For $17.2 Billion

Walgreens is buying Rite Aid in a merger worth $17.2 billion. The giant pharmacy deal signed on Monday will make Walgreens the largest U.S. drugstore chain by far. The Walgreens-Rite Aid merger comes after much speculation from analysts who predicted the acquisition. As reported in April by the Inquisitr, Walgreens announced several of its retail […]

9y ago

Milwaukee Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting 5-Year-Old Boy In Walgreens Restroom

Milwaukee Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting 5-Year-Old Boy In Walgreens Restroom

A Milwaukee man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 5-year-old boy in a Walgreens restroom on August 9. The Associated Press reports that 29-year-old Lamar Blachmer was charged with first degree sexual of assault of a child after the Milwaukee man allegedly followed the boy into a Walgreens bathroom and assaulted the boy while […]

9y ago

Teen Accused Of Murdering Afghanistan War Vet In Walgreens Parking Lot

Teen Accused Of Murdering Afghanistan War Vet In Walgreens Parking Lot

A man who just turned 18 stands accused of fatally stabbing a U.S. Army veteran of the Afghanistan war outside of a Providence, Rhode Island, Walgreens. Suspect Erico Montalvo has allegedly admitted to cops that he stabbed infantry vet Colby Mendonca, 26, and a friend in the pharmacy parking lot behind the store about 2 […]

9y ago

Red Nose Day Comes To America: Get Involved On May 21 To Have Fun And Help Raise Funds

Red Nose Day Comes To America: Get Involved On May 21 To Have Fun And Help Raise Funds

Red Nose Day is coming to America. It has been celebrated in the U.K. for 30 years and has raised more than $1 billion in donations for organizations addressing poverty. Red Nose Day is coming to America in a spectacular live star-studded special on Thursday, May 21 from 8-11 p.m. on NBC. The three-hour entertainment […]

9y ago

Christian Griffan: Cashier’s Compassion Costs Him — But This Good Deed Was Rewarded In The End

Christian Griffan: Cashier’s Compassion Costs Him — But This Good Deed Was Rewarded In The End

Christian Griffan is a cashier at a Walgreens drugstore in Keller, Texas, just north of Fort Worth, who showed compassion to a customer — and got burned for it. But fortunately for Christian, his random act of kindness did not go unnoticed, and ultimately paid off for him, though he was never looking for anything […]

9y ago

95-Year-Old WWII Vet Fights Off Mugger With Cane

95-Year-Old WWII Vet Fights Off Mugger With Cane

A 95-year-old U.S. Army veteran who fought in Okinawa as a soldier in World War II fended off a thief with his cane outside a Manchester, New Hampshire, Walgreens. Arthur Kemberis (alternatively spelled Kamberis by some media outlets) had just paid cash for his wife’s prescription when the alleged robber — who had been following […]

9y ago

Walgreens Closing Stores, WBA Stock Price Jumps, Is CEO Considering Mergers With Rite Aid, Express Scripts?

Walgreens Closing Stores, WBA Stock Price Jumps, Is CEO Considering Mergers With Rite Aid, Express Scripts?

With Walgreens closing stores, investors have apparently rewarded management’s decision by causing the Walgreens stock price to rise throughout Thursday. There is also talk about acquisitions, and analysts believe it is possible Rite Aid and Express Scripts may be in the sights of the new Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) management. In a related report by […]

9y ago

Walgreens Closing Stores In The U.S., Around 5,000 Workers Will Lose Jobs In Global Growth Plan

Walgreens Closing Stores In The U.S., Around 5,000 Workers Will Lose Jobs In Global Growth Plan

With Walgreens closing stores in the United States, the company has announced that they are making $500 million in budget cuts in order to remain competitive against their main rival CVS Health and also so they can afford an international growth plan. But how many U.S.-based Walgreens employees will lose their jobs based upon this […]

9y ago

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