DEERFIELD, Ill., July 02, 2009 - Walgreens (NYSE:WAG)(NASDAQ:WAG) had June sales of $5,236,400,000, an increase of 9.0 percent from $4,804,867,000 for the same month in 2008. Sales in comparable stores (those open at least a year) increased 3.4 percent. (more)
Thanks to special hiring efforts made at Walgreens distribution center in Anderson, S.C., about 40 percent of the employees have either a physical or cognitive disability. A similar effort to hire people with disabilities is under way at the Walgreens distribution center under construction in Windsor, Conn. Watch the video of employee stories from Anderson.
AARP/Walgreens Wellness Tour
The AARP/Walgreens Wellness Tour is arriving in cities nationwide as part of a 3,000-community, two-year national mobile health screening tour with a goal of providing more than $60 million worth of free health screenings. The tour aims to administer more than 2.5 million free screenings and is comprised of nine custom-equipped buses with dedicated staffs of Walgreens trained medical technicians. View the multimedia news release.