Walgreens

Walgreens is an American company that operates the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States, behind CVS Health.https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2015/06/30/cvs-to-buy-all-of-targets-pharmacy-stores-a-win-win-for-both/#1b65050769d1 
==History==
Walgreens began in 1901, with a small food front store on the corner of Bowen and Cottage Grove Avenues in Chicago, owned by Charles R. Walgreen.http://www.walgreens.com/topic/about/companyhistory.jsp 
As a result of alcohol prohibition, the 1920s were a successful time for Walgreens. Although alcohol was illegal, Walgreens sold prescription whiskey.https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/business/27pot.html In 1922, the company introduced a malted milkshake, which led to its establishing ice cream manufacturing plants. A Walgreens employee named Ivar Coulson modified the basic malted milk recipe by adding scoops of vanilla ice cream. The milkshake was sold at $0.20 and Walgreens became the place to "hang out".Ang, Simon; Oliva, Alejandro (2004). Superior Customer Value in the New Economy: Concepts and Cases, Second Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. p. 348. 
The stock market crash in October 1929 and the Great Depression did not greatly affect the company. After Walgreen died in 1939, his son Charles R. Walgreen Jr. took over the chain until his retirement. The Charles R. Walgreen Jr. years were relatively prosperous but lacked the massive expansion seen in the early part of the century. In 1946, Walgreens purchased Sanborns from Frank Sanborn, which was later sold to Grupo Carso in 1982.https://web.archive.org/web/20080228175659/http://www.sanborns.com.mx/Sanborns/sanborns_hist.asp 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 after Walgreen III retired. In the 1980s Walgreens owned and operated a chain of casual family restaurants/pancake houses called Wag's, they were later to Marriott Corp and then by 1991 the chain went out of business.https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5DD1431F933A05755C0A96E948260 Kevin P. Walgreen was made a vice-president in 1995 and promoted to senior vice president of store operations in 2006.https://web.archive.org/web/20080406121055/http://news.walgreens.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1108 
==Channel==
Walgreens created the YouTube channel on April 21, 2006, where they uploaded their commercials. Walgreens first video was created on March 24, 2011.
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