Walgreens

thumb|A Walgreens store. Walgreens is a chain of drugstores. It is the largest drugstore chain, and competes with CVS Pharmacy and Rite Aid. Walgreens was founded in 1901. As of August 31, 2018, the company operated 9,560 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the US territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1901. The Walgreens headquarters office is in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois.
In 2014 the company agreed to purchase the remaining 55% of Switzerland-based Alliance Boots that it did not already own to form a global business. Under the terms of the purchase, the two companies merged to form a new holding company, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., on December 31, 2014. Walgreens became a subsidiary of the new company, which retains its Deerfield headquarters and trades on the Nasdaq under the symbol WBA. In 2024 Wallgreens announced that it would be closing as part of a plan to close 150 stores nationwide in the United States and the United Kingdom as part of a plan to close 300 stores nationwide.
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