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Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG), d/b/a Walgreens (without an apostrophe), is a convenience store/pharmacy chain, pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), mail service pharmacy, and specialty pharmacy which operates in the continental United States and Puerto Rico.

It operates more than 5,405 retail stores. 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. CVS/pharmacy, Eckerd, and Rite Aid are its main competitors.

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In its current business model, new Walgreens locations are most commonly set up at the corners of intersecting streets -- literally making it a "corner drug store" similar to how many independent pharmacies evolved over the years in the United States.
Many Walgreens locations offer services that are convenient such as 24-Hour Store and Pharmacy locations, and drive-thru prescription service.

Walgreen Trivia

  • Walgreens opens on average one store every 17 hours
  • The company plans to have 7000 stores by 2010
  • Walgreens fills over one million prescriptions every day
  • Walgreens is the largest private user of satellite transmission data in the world, second only to the U. S. Government
  • Nearly 30% of Walgreens stores are open 24-hours
  • Walgreens accounts for 14% of all retail prescriptions dispensed in the United States
From Wallgreen's Website - Press Info
Founded in 1901, Walgreens is not only the nation's largest retail pharmacy chain, it is considered the leader in innovative drugstore retailing. Walgreens pioneered many modern store and pharmacy features, some of which have become standards in the industry. Among those concepts are:
  • Computerized pharmacies connected nationwide, introduced in 1981 by Walgreens with its Intercom computer system.
     
  • Point-of-sale scanning — completed chainwide in 1991.
     
  • Freestanding stores with drive-thru pharmacies, introduced in the early 1990s. When Walgreens entered the Indianapolis market in 1992, initially with seven freestanding stores with drive-thru service, it was a watershed development. Since 1994, most new Walgreens have included a drive-thru pharmacy and today, more than 80 percent of Walgreen stores offer this convenience.
     
  • Expanded convenience food and drink section for the "pick-up-a-loaf-of-bread-on-the-way-home" customer.
     
  • Nationwide rollout of one-hour photofinishing and digital photo services, now available at virtually all Walgreens stores.
     
  • Intercom Plus, Walgreens advanced pharmacy computer and workflow system. Intercom Plus allows pharmacists to spend more time counseling patients by assigning administrative tasks to pharmacy technicians. Intercom Plus also provides patients with information sheets that include a picture and description of what the medication looks like.

    Other helpful information for Medicare patients is a free personalized report prepared in-store by pharmacists that lists the patient's individual drugs covered under available Medicare drug plans, along with each plan's premium, co-pay and deductible.
     
  • "Touch-Tone Prefills." Patients can use an automated phone system to request prescription refills and a pickup time. This information is fed directly into the pharmacy's work queue. Prescriptions can also be refilled online as needed or through Auto Refills, which automatically refill your prescription and sends an e-mail reminder when it's ready.
     
  • Prescription label instructions printed in any of 14 languages, a service introduced chainwide in 2002.
     
  • Large-type prescription instructions, introduced in October 2004. Walgreens became the first drugstore chain to offer this innovation, which benefits the more than 16 million Americans with some form of vision impairment. The service is available free of charge in both English and Spanish.
     
  • Express Pay, which allows prescriptions to be automatically charged to the patient's credit card. This helps speed up the transaction and is makes it easier for caregivers to pick up the patient's prescription.
Walgreens' financial success has continued in step with its technical innovations. 2006 marked the 32nd consecutive year of record sales and earnings. The company has paid a dividend in every quarter since 1933 and has raised the dividend for 31 consecutive years.
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