RE: A lot of our California Walgreens are closing anyway, due to high and sustained levels of theft.
And I thought it was only WalMart...
I am just curious why both large companies start with the prefix “Wal”, are they both somehow related to the Walton family?
Charles Walgreen started Walgreens drugs in a hotel in Chicago in the early 1900’s. Or so I think I remember from the Main Street exhibit in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. No relation to the Walmart people.
Walgreens began in 1901, with a small food front store on the
corner of Bowen and Cottage Grove Avenues in Chicago, owned
by Dixon, Illinois native Charles R. Walgreen. By 1913,
Walgreens had grown to four stores on Chicago’s South Side.
It opened its fifth in 1915 and four more in 1916.
That would not surprise me, if the Waltons also owned Walgreens.
Not Walgreens.