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Thefts lead WA Walgreens to put Oxycontin in safes

Robberies involving the narcotic OxyContin are so common that Walgreens has installed time-delayed safes in its 114 pharmacies across Washington to secure the powerful painkiller.

Pharmacy groups mull options in lawsuit

Two trade groups challenging a reduction in Medicaid reimbursements to Delaware pharmacies are weighing their options.

Walgreens halting Delaware Medicaid prescriptions

DOVER, Del. — Walgreens, the largest pharmacy chain in Delaware, says it will stop filling Medicaid prescriptions at all of its drugstores in the state because of a change in reimbursement rates.

Walgreen Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Rein retires

Drugstore chain Walgreen Co. said Friday Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Rein has retired from the company after 26 years.

Walgreen offers $2.8B to buy Longs Drug Stores

Walgreen Co. made an offer late Friday to buy Longs Drug Stores Corp. for $2.8 billion, hoping to unseat a rival offer from CVS Caremark Corp. that Longs had already accepted.

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Minister Landlord Works so Jobless Tenants are Not Homeless
Source: HeraldOnline.com

A Rock Hill, South Carolina landlord who is an ordained minister refused to evict unemployed tenants who couldn't pay rent -- and took a job himself to help meet mortgage expenses.

Walgreens project to open summer 2010
Source: The Southwest Observer

The Department of Community Development has received approval to begin the process of selling the city-owned adjacent to the building that houses Walgreens and an empty hair salon at the northwest corner of 111th Street and Kedzie Avenue.

UPDATE: Sarasota police arrest phony cop suspected of groping boys
Source: 10connects.com

Sarasota police make an arrest in a case from over the weekend where three boys say a man, impersonating an officer at the Walgreens store on North Tamiami Trail, frisked them for allegedly shoplifting.

Boys say phony cop groped them
Source: wtsp.com

Police are looking for a man who posed as a law enforcement officer at a Walgreens store on North Tamiami Trail. The man accused three boys ages 10, 11 and 13, of shoplifting. He then allegedly patted them down. The boys say the man went too far

Teddy bear robber strikes three more times
Source: St. Petersburg Times > Local News

HOLIDAY -- A man who used a fuzzy white teddy bear in a ploy to rob a Walgreen's Sunday has hit three more Holiday businesses: a CVS on Tuesday and a hair salon and a diner Thursday night. He brandishes a silver handgun during the robberies and he doesn't hide his face.

Jobless and Uninsured? Walgreens Offering Free Healthcare
Source: blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com

"It's great what Walgreens is doing to help those who are jobless in this economy. I didn't even know that Walgreens had clinics in their durgstores until I had a minor, yet urgent illness a few months ago. The clinic accepts walk-ins,and with my experience I was in and out.

Walgreens Discrimination Suit Appealed In Nevada
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Two years after Bruce Johnson lost a racial discrimination suit against Walgreens Co., the Houston resident says he has some unfinished business with the drug store chain that he claims owes him more than an apology for the insulting treatment he and three friends received at a p …

Pharmacist to alleged robber: Name and birth date please
Source: naplesnews.com

Robbery 101: Don't tell your intended victims your name. A North Naples man apparently forgot that simple lesson on Sunday when Collier County sheriff's deputies say he attempted to hold up a Walgreens pharmacy.

Walgreens Opens Miami Lakes Call Center: Rents from American Express
Source: Business Journal

Well at least that empty office space is bringing in some new jobs. The call center reps will at least have a posh office and enjoy their new surroundings!

What's a Corporate Job Worth?
Source: mediacondom.com

I believe in capitalism; but between the bailouts, corporatism, and corporate lobbying I have concluded that Marx was right on the corporation; and that they have, through their own stupid greed, come toencompass the very spirit of not only incompetence; but socialism itself.

Thieves enter store through its roof
Source: muskogeephoenix.com

Thieves who drilled a safe at Walgreen Drug Store in Wagoner before 3 a.m. Friday went in through the roof to take money and do damage that totaled $29,000.

With slug in head, shooting victim back at work
Source: Palm Beach Post

RIVIERA BEACH — A day after he was hit by a stray bullet in the back of the head, 74-year-old E.T. Strickland was back at work Wednesday — with the slug still stuck in his skull.

Walgreens Jerks You Around When You Try To Buy Plan B
Source: Consumerist

Michael's girlfriend tried to buy Plan B yesterday, but the Oxford, MS Walgreens pharmacy seemed to go out of their way to make it has hard as possible. Mere incompetence doesn't explain what happened.

Dollar stores' stocks defying the economic downturn
Source: USA Today

Recession-wary shoppers aren't the only ones finding big bargains in the dollar stores. Investors are, too. The stock market might be suffering one of its most painful slumps ever, but shares of stores that sell the cheapest items are ringing up gargantuan gains.

Video: Walgreens Wants Nurse To Pay For Saving Woman's Life
Source: Consumerist

Two nurses and an off-duty police officer had to act fast when they saw a woman slip into a diabetic coma at Walgreens. They grabbed orange juice, sugar, and a Glucometer and probably saved her life.

How to Be Happy with Your Photos — From an Amateur Photographer and Walgreens Photo Specialist

"Why are my pictures blurry?" "Why is that one so dark?" "How come these are all pink?" "Why are these ones all grainy?" Being a Walgreens photo specialist for close to a year now, these are the sort of questions that plague me on a day-to-day basis.

Walgreens Targed in Miscarriage Suit After Swapping Chemotherapy Drugs With Prenatal Vitamins
Source: Chicago Tribune

Walgreen Co. has been sued by a Missouri woman and her husband who claim she had a miscarriage after a prescription for prenatal vitamins was filled with a chemotherapy drug carrying a similar brand name.

Department of Justice Press Release: On arrest of rapper T.I. for possession of illegal firearms
Source: eurweb.com

....CLIFFORD HARRIS, 27, an entertainer also known as "T.I.," of College Park, Georgia, was arrested in Atlanta at approximately 2:30 p.m.

T.I Arrested After Police Raid, BET Awards Honor & Performance Interrupted
Source: sohh.com

...... rapper T.I was arrested and jailed just hours before he was to receive the award for Album of the Year and perform at the BET Awards today.

American Medical Association Attack Retail Health Clinics

Doctors of America are fighting hard to squash competition as retail health clinics open nationwide bringing more affordable basic health care to the average person.

Angry Woman Accused Of Setting Walgreens On Fire over spare change
Source: wftv.com

A dispute over spare change may have inspired a woman to set a Walgreens store on fire and she did the deed using a lit cigarette.

Wal-Mart expands $4 generic drug program to 14 states
Source: Yahoo! News

Wal-Mart expands $4 generic drug program Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is expanding a program offering $4 prescriptions for some generic drugs to 14 more states, two weeks after rolling out the low-cost program in Florida, the world''s largest retailer said Thursday....

HP says Walgreens, OfficeMax ink [refilling]s infringe patents
Source: sanjose.bizjournals.com

Unable to stop third parties from providing ink-refilling services through the DMCA and through trademark violations, HP is attempting to initiate legal action through patents to stop OfficeMax, Walgreens, and other big name companies from providing these services.

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