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The Walgreen Company (Walgreens) is the largest drug retailing chain in the United States. As of May 31, 2014, the company operated 8,217 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1901. The Walgreens headquarters office is in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois. In 2014, the company agreed to purchase the remaining 55% of Switzerland-based Alliance Boots that it did not already own to form a global business.
Walgreens closing 200 stores, opening 200 others. Back to Gallery. Walgreens will shutter about 200 U.S. stores as part of an expanded cost reduction push, but the nationâs largest drugstore chain has no plans to shrink in the wake of its combination with European health and beauty retailer Alliance Boots.he store closings that Walgreens announced Thursday amount to about 2 percent of the 8,232 drugstores the company runs in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Nevertheless, the closings are the latest example of a strategy shift for a company that was opening about 500 stores a year a decade ago.