With the news yesterday that some form of the public option for healthcare appears to be moving forward, we can probably expect more companies to star...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
Less than three weeks after CVS stores started selling the controversial Obama chia pets, the pharmacy chain is pulling them from its shelves. In Apr...
Fox Chicago | Posted 09.30.2009 | Chicago
Beer and wine at Walgreens? The Deerfield-based drug store chain is getting its shelves ready for alcohol....
Gothamist | John Del Signore | Posted 09.07.2009 | New York
Despite (or because of?) its ubiquity, Duane Reade is deeply in debt, and last week its corporate parent, private-equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partner...
Val Brown | Posted 08.22.2009 | New York
Personalized service at the pharmacy is one area where they can really differentiate.
AP | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Drugstore operator Walgreen will offer free clinic visits to the unemployed and uninsured for the rest of the year, providing tests a...
Chicago Sun-Times | Sandra Guy | Posted 04.06.2009 | Chicago
Walgreen Co. executives are considering selling booze at its drugstores after phasing out beer and wine at all but a few hundred stores in the 1990s....
Robert Reed | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business
At a time when the stock market is plunging and a once-venerable Wall Street investment house is going bankrupt, it may seem like all is lost. Not true. In fact, amid the carnage, some examples have emerged that stir --shall we say--a cautious optimism about getting free of this mess.
AP | Posted 05.21.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Turns out it was a nicotine jones that led to Shia LaBeouf's arrest in Chicago. The 21-year-old actor, who stars opposite Harrison Fo...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Shia LaBeouf was charged with misdemeanor criminal trespassing after the "Transformers" star refused to leave a Chicago drug store, police said Sunday...
footnoted.org | Michelle Leder | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business