Recently added articles from Chain Drug Review:
Walgreens provides an 'oasis'.(food offerings)
Oct 26, 2009 ... CHICAGO--Walgreen Co. has become an oasis in the "food desert" here. The chain has bulked up its food offerings in two Chicago stores to meet the needs of residents underserved by grocers, and it plans to do the same in nine other outlets in the city, mostly on the south side. ...
Eaton Apothecary units sold to Walgreens.(News)(Brief article)
Oct 26, 2009 ... DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Walgreen Co. has agreed to buy 12 Eaton Apothecary pharmacies in the Boston area from D.A.W. Inc. for about $19 million. The deal is slated to close within 90 days. "Today is a very special clay for our Boston market," says Dave White, Walgreens market vice ...
Bottom line at Safeway decreases 35.5%.(Business)(Financial report)
Oct 26, 2009 ... PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway Inc.'s profit plunged by more than a third in the third quarter as lower fuel prices and continued pace deflation in key categories dragged down top-line results. Earnings still beat Wall Street's expectations, though, and investors responded by ...
Management backs outlook for fiscal '09.(Business)(Safeway Inc. )(Financial report)(Brief article)
Oct 26, 2009 ... PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Despite a 35% drop in third quarter profit, Safeway Inc. management reconfirmed its fiscal 2009 earnings guidance. The retailer forecast a profit of $1.70 to $1.90 per diluted share for the year and reaffirmed its free cash flow guidance of $1.1 billion to ...
Public option still alive as health care reform advances.
Oct 26, 2009 ... WASHINGTON -- A little over a week after the Senate Finance Committee passed a health care reform bill without a public insurance plan, that option appears to be back on the table. "At the end of the day we will have a public option," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters in ...