Business & Tech Walgreens CEO Admits Locking Up Items Was a Mistake: ‘When You Lock Things Up… You Don’t Sell as Many of Them’ On a quarterly earnings call, the CEO of Walgreens conceded that putting items behind lock and key has hurt the company’s sales, because no one wants to shop in a store where even the toothpaste is behind glass.
SF News Walgreens Closing 12 SF Stores In Late February, Here’s a Map Showing Which Ones are Closing Those 1,200 nationwide Walgreens closures are starting to kick in, and 12 Walgreens stores in SF will close in late February, including the one where Banko Brown was shot. The company blames high rent, but legal settlements probably have a hand in this too.
SF News Exclusive: Shuttered Mission Street Walgreens to Become Locally Owned Produce and Meat Market Is it a "doom loop" when an SF Walgreens closes, but a locally owned fresh produce market pops up in its place? That's what's happening, as Casa Guadalupe has filed permits to move into the former Walgreens at Mission and Cesar Chavez.
SF News Walgreens Now Selling Cheaper Generic Narcan Over the Counter, and It’s Already Available The national pharmacy chain Walgreens has made its generic version of Narcan available over the counter, and it's $10 cheaper than name-brand Narcan, and apparently already available at a few SF stores.
SF News State Bureau Fines Walgreens Guard Who Shot Banko Brown $1,500 This is by no means the end of the legal recriminations in the fatal shooting of Banko Brown by a Walgreens security guard, but the guard in question has been fined $1,500 by the state’s Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
SF News Judge Rules Against Tobacco Ban at Walgreen's You damn well ought to be able to buy your smokes at Walgreen's if you can buy them at Safeway, says Justice William McGuiness of the First Appelate District Court. The
