By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News Walgreens has expanded its on-demand delivery options to include less-than-two-hour service for retail products. The drugstore giant said Tuesday that customers nationwide can now shop from more than 24,000 items online directly from Walgreens.com or via the Walgreens mobile app and receive same-day home [...]
Source: Supermarket Guru CVS and Walgreen’s started building their new stores with about 50% of their area devoted to foods – including healthier offerings When most people think of buying foods at a drug chain it’s typically about the milk (where prices are usually lower than those in the supermarket) [...]
Federal health officials have reached an agreement with pharmacies across the U.S. to distribute free coronavirus vaccines after they are approved and become available to the public. The goal eventually is to make getting a COVID-19 vaccine as easy as getting a flu shot. Thursday’s agreement with major chain drugstores, [...]
Walgreens will squeeze primary care clinics into as many as 700 of its U.S. stores over the next few years in a major expansion of the care it offers customers. The drugstore chain said Wednesday that it will partner with VillageMD to set up doctor-led clinics that also use nurses, [...]
Pharmacy employees at Walgreens told consultants late last year that high levels of stress and “unreasonable” expectations had led them to make mistakes while filling prescriptions and to ignore some safety procedures. But when the consultants presented their findings at Walgreens’s corporate offices this month, there was no reference to [...]