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Re: 10 bagger post# 47815

Wednesday, 09/17/2014 1:21:25 PM

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:21:25 PM

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SORRY For the bad INFO that I helped to be passed on.. Not my style.. hank..

**DID YOU KNOW LES WALGREEN III is on staff @ ACGX? The founder of frickn WAlgreens is product development for this company. He11, he could buy this company for .05 with one personal check. Something has to happen here soon.
INSANE



Walgreens provides access to consumer goods and services, plus pharmacy, photo studio, health and wellness services in the United States through its retail drugstores, Walgreens Health Services division, and Walgreens Health and Wellness division. Walgreens had 8,206 drugstores as of January 31, 2014.

[5] Walgreens runs several online stores, such as: www.Beauty.com, Drugstore.com and www.VisionDirect.com.

[6] Early "Walgreen Drugs" sign still in use in San Antonio, Texas.. Walgreens began in 1901, with a drug store on the corner of Bowen Ave and Cottage Grove in Chicago, owned by Galesburg native Charles R. Walgreen, Sr.[7] By 1913, Walgreens had grown to four stores on Chicago's South Side. It opened its fifth in 1915, and four more in 1916. By 1919, there were 20 stores in the chain. As a result of alcohol prohibition, the 1920s was a successful time for Walgreens. At the time, alcohol was illegal. However, prescription whiskey was available and sold by Walgreens...

In 1922, the company introduced a malted milkshake, which led to it establishing ice cream manufacturing plants. The next year, Walgreen began opening stores away from residential areas. In the mid-1920s, there were 44 stores with annual sales of $1,200,000. Walgreens had expanded into Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin.

By 1930, it had 397 stores with annual sales of US$4,000,000. This expansion partly was attributed to selling alcohol, mainly whiskey, which Walgreen often stocked under the counter, as accounted in Daniel Okrent's Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.[8] The stock market crash in October 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression did not greatly affect the company. In 1934, Walgreens was operating in 30 states with 601 stores.

A Walgreens on Rt.1 South, Saugus, Massachusetts.
After Charles Walgreen, Sr., died in 1939, his son Charles R. Walgreen took over the chain until his retirement. The Charles R. Walgreen years were relatively prosperous, but lacked the massive expansion seen in the early part of the century. Charles "Cork" R. Walgreen III took over after Walgreen Jr.'s retirement in the early 1950s, and modernized the company by switching to barcode scanning. The Walgreen family was not involved in senior management of the company for a short time following Walgreen III's retirement. In 1986, it acquired the MediMart chain from Stop & Shop.[9] In 1995, Kevin P. Walgreen was made a vice-president and promoted to Senior Vice President - Store Operations in 2006.[10]





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