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A Walgreens spokesperson said such mistakes are "extremely rare" and that the company's top priority is patient safety. [90] A few weeks later, a Walgreens pharmacist in Evansville, Indiana, accidentally gave a 4-year-old boy, a 5-year-old girl, and their parents a full adult dosage each of the Pfizer vaccine instead of intended flu vaccine.
In 1994, it opened its first store in Mexico. [7] In 1998, it acquired Portland, Oregon-based United Grocers Cash & Carry, which was renamed Cash & Carry. These stores are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest. [8] In 2007, Smart & Final acquired 35 Henry's Farmers Markets in California and Sun Harvest Markets in Texas for about $166 million. [9]
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]
A spokesperson for Walgreens said that about 25% of the stores were not contributing to the chain's long-term strategy, per the Columbus Dispatch, and as a result, will close a "significant ...
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On October 27, 2015, Walgreens announced the purchase of competitor Rite Aid for $17.2 billion (equivalent to $21.6 billion in 2023). [12] [13] However, that deal was later scrapped due to antitrust concerns in favor of a $5.18 billion deal (equivalent to $6.33 billion in 2023), [12] in which Walgreens only acquired half of Rite Aid locations. [14]