General News

DEERFIELD, Ill. and BURLINGTON, N.C., October 10, 2018 — Walgreens and LabCorp® (NYSE: LH) today announced their mutual commitment to a significant expansion of their LabCorp at Walgreens collaboration. The two companies have agreed to open at least 600 LabCorp patient service centers at Walgreens stores across the U.S. over the next four years, inclusive of the 17 locations that have opened since they first announced their consumer-focused initiative in June 2017.

DEERFIELD, Ill., October 9, 2018- Walgreens is taking proactive measures to assist customers, team members and communities in the projected path of Hurricane Michael, and is preparing to fully support impacted regions in the storm’s aftermath.  

DEERFIELD, Ill., Oct. 5, 2018 – In honor of American Pharmacists Month this October, Walgreens is recognizing its more than 28,000 pharmacists for their commitment to care and their role in improving patient outcomes across the United States and Puerto Rico.

Walgreens and online beauty retailer Birchbox today announced that they will team up to build Birchbox retail experiences within select Walgreens stores. The multi-channel offering will bring prestige beauty brands into Walgreens stores and allow customers to discover and shop for new brands in an interactive and accessible way, and will include a curated Birchbox shop on Walgreens digital properties. As part of the relationship, Walgreens will also acquire a minority equity interest in Birchbox.

The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) and Walgreens today announced that the companies are collaborating on an exploratory pilot with a new format and concept that combines Kroger’s role as America’s grocer and food authority with Walgreens global expertise in pharmacy, health and beauty.

Today, Walgreens brings its national “ItEndsWithUs” campaign to local students at WE Day UN in New York at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Walgreens Ambassador Becky Savage, a mother who have two sons die from opioid overdose in the same night, will speak to an audience of 19,000 youth on opioid awareness.

DEERFIELD, Ill., September 18, 2018 - Walgreens is supporting relief efforts in North Carolina and South Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence through a number of measures, including an initial $200,000 donation to the American Red Cross relief efforts.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. and DEERFIELD, Ill. – Sept. 13, 2018 – Walgreens and Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced an expansion of the collaboration they had announced earlier this year, that will include 80 new locations. All of the new Sprint Express at Walgreens stores will be throughout Chicagoland and the Dallas-Ft. Worth metropolitan area, and are planned to open by the end of the year.