ARMONK, N.Y. — Walgreens is leveraging the IBM Cloud to optimize field service at its nearly 8,200 drug stores nationwide. IBM said Friday that, under a new agreement with the pharmacy chain, it will deploy IBM retail analytics at Walgreens stores to help improve the efficiency of field service support. The IT giant noted that
NEW YORK — Walgreens has launched #ItEndsWithUs, a new campaign to educate teens nationwide about the nation’s opioid crisis. The campaign was unveiled by actor Brandon Larracuente of the popular Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” and “Bloodline,” who lost a close friend to the opioid epidemic. He spoke to an audience of more than 6,000
NEW YORK — The impending closure of Walgreens Boots Alliance’s purchase of nearly 2,000 Rite Aid stores will clear the fog around both companies since their terminated merger deal and enable them to move ahead, Wall Street analysts say. WBA and Rite Aid yesterday announced that the Federal Trade Commission approved a downsized agreement in
NEW YORK — Retailers stepped forward to help with relief efforts for Hurricane Irma even as they continued their own recovery efforts to get stores and other facilities back into operation. Across Florida, where Irma made landfall in the continental United States last Saturday, drug chains, supermarkets and mass merchandisers shuttered stores as winds topping
DEERFIELD, Ill., and ATLANTA — Walgreens has made a donation to help fund the CDC Foundation’s Sustainable Healthcenter Implementation PrEP Pilot (SHIPP) study to foster HIV prevention. PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a medication protocol for people who don’t have HIV to help protect against HIV infection. The SHIPP study aims to address the spread of HIV/AIDS
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens and the United Nations Foundation have launched their annual “Get a Shot. Give a Shot” campaign to provide critical vaccines to people in developing countries. The drug chain said Thursday that the “Get a Shot” program, now in its fifth year, has helped provide more than 20 million polio and measles
HOUSTON — The number of pharmacies that Hurricane Harvey forced to close — at least temporarily — ran into the hundreds late last month as the mammoth storm pounded southeast Texas. Drug chains, mass merchandisers and supermarketers shuttered stores with prescription counters throughout the region as Harvey battered the area with high winds and rain
Surely jarred by the news images of massive flooding across the Texas Gulf Coast region, Walgreens customers are responding with a growing stream of donations to the American Red Cross relief effort for Hurricane Harvey. Just a day after announcing the donation program at Walgreens and Duane Reade store checkouts on Tuesday, the company reported
DEERFIELD, Ill. — About 200 Walgreens stores in southeastern Texas and Louisiana remain closed due to widespread flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey. Walgreens said Tuesday that local field leaders and store teams are working to reopen other stores in the region and restore pharmacy services as soon as possible. The company reported that more than
NEW YORK — Walgreens Boots Alliance has launched CYO Cosmetics, a new, exclusive makeup collection targeted at younger women. WBA said Tuesday CYO offers 160 “hyperfunctional” cosmetics products for the face, eyes and lips at a price point that “encourages exploration and experimentation.” “CYO is challenging the norms of how beauty products are used. We’re
HOUSTON — Along with residents, retailers in southeast Texas were pounded by Hurricane Harvey as the storm drenched the region with historical levels of rainfall. The hurricane, which hit the Texas Gulf Coast on Friday and has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, caused massive flooding throughout the region and forced hundreds of pharmacies
SAN DIEGO — Walgreens has received the 2017 Infinity Arrow Award for Service and Take Back from the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC) for its Safe Medication Disposal program. CPSC the Infinity Arrow Award for Service and Take Back recognizes a California business that has initiated an outstanding Take Back program for one or more
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens has always viewed itself as a customer-led organization. The guardian of that positioning in its modern manifestation is Adam Holyk. As senior vice president and chief marketing officer, he is responsible for the company’s approach to staying in touch with the people who shop the drug chain, both in its stores
CAMP HILL, Pa. — Rite Aid Corp. envisions a smaller but better-performing store base following the expected closing of its deal to sell nearly half its stores to Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (WBA). In a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Rite Aid provided a more detailed picture of its store base after
