…you could attribute Walgreen’s 4.9% year over year December pharmacy sales increase to the increase in the number of weekdays, however, I attribute it to the increase in the number of comparable stores.
DoA, 4.9% was the year-over-year increase in WAG’s comparable store sales; the year-over-year increase in total sales (including new stores) was 10.8%. In the pharmacy section, year-over-year growth in comparable store sales was 13.5% and year-over-year growth in total sales was 8.5%. The two extra weekdays accounted for about 300 basis points of the year-over-year increase in comparable store sales. Regards, Dew
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