walgreens on tobacco road will no longer sell to ages under 21 Walgreens to hike minimum age

Without the 1,660 Target pharmacies that CVS purchased in 2015, the count falls below its main competitor at 8,005

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Walgreens, one of the nations largest drugstore chains, is included in the Retail Pharmacy USA Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise

Walgreens Boots Chief Executive Stefano Pessina said that the reason the pharmacy chain isn't giving up selling cigarettes in all its stores is that "when we don't sell tobacco, we have a lot of (negative) reactions," in an interview with the Wall Street Journal