Walgreens
Retailers
Online retailers
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🇺🇸 United States
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Est. 1901
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211,000 employees
Walgreens is an American pharmacy and drugstore chain headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois. Charles R. Walgreen founded it in Chicago in 1901, and it now operates about 8,000 stores in the United States, selling prescriptions, health and wellness, personal care, beauty and household products, plus photo services, in stores and at walgreens.com. It became part of Walgreens Boots Alliance in 2014 and has been owned by the private equity firm Sycamore Partners since August 2025. The chain employs about 211,000 people.
Full name
Walgreen Co.
Address
Deerfield
Website
www.walgreens.comCountries of operation
🇺🇸 United States
Ownership
Subsidiary
Parent company
Sycamore Partners
Locations
8,000
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Quick facts
- Type
- Retailers, Online retailers
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Employees
- 211,000
- Founded
- 1901