How many Walgreens stores are there in the United States?”
Walgreen has grown from 1800 to around 6,300 stores. However, the company plans to slow down its expansion. This is partly due to a decline in prescription growth and the sale of merchandise in the store. Wikipedia says that as of May 31, 2008, Walgreens operated 6,727 locations in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. That includes 6,252 drugstores (554 more than a year ago), as well as worksite health centers, home care facilities and specialty, institutional and mail service pharmacies. Walgreens is one of the two largest drug store chains in the United States and the company says that it serves 5 million customers per day, filled 583 million prescriptions in fiscal 2007, and expects to have 7,000 stores by 2010. But please note the first paragraph that explains that this growth may slow so that the 2010 projection will not hold true. Walgreens has severe competition in CVS and Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart’s $4 generics plan is especially troublesome. However the number of stor
