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Walgreens began in 1901, with a small food front store on the corner of Bowen and Cottage Grove Avenues in Chicago, owned by Dixon, Illinois native Charles R. Walgreen. [6] 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.
The top 25 pharmacy chain stores represent about 38,000 pharmacy locations in the U.S. and employ about 149,000 on-staff pharmacists. California has 8,015 pharmacies, the most of any state. Texas, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania round out the top five states for pharmacy locations. [1]
Walgreens, which has about 8,500 locations in the U.S. (and more than 3,600 Boots branded stores in the U.K. and elsewhere), has closed about 2,000 locations over the past decade, Wentworth said.
Genovese Drug Stores (acquired by Eckerd parent JC Penney in 1998; rebranded in 2003) Gray Drug (Bought by Rite Aid in 1987) Happy Harry's (bought by Walgreens in 2006; rebranded in 2011) Hook's Drug Stores (acquired by Revco in 1994) IDL Drug Stores; Jean Coutu (US stores acquired by Rite Aid in 2004) K&B (Acquired by Rite Aid in 1997)
To confirm that a Walgreens near you is open, use the store locator to find holiday hours for both stores and pharmacies. What are Walgreens' New Year's hours in 2024?
For stores that aren’t open 24 hours, typical operating times might be from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. though, again, will vary from store to store. Be sure to check with the Walgreens location near you.
Walgreens has stores in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. On October 27, 2015, Walgreens announced the purchase of competitor Rite Aid for $17.2 billion (equivalent to $21.6 billion in 2023).
CVS, the largest US chain, closed 244 stores between 2018 and 2020. In 2021, it announced plans to close 900 stores by 2024. Walgreens said in 2019 it would close 200 stores and in June announced ...