Talk:Walgreens

Overview needs clean up
The overview section needs to be reviewed for impartiality. It reads like Walgreens marketing material. 72.15.85.125 (talk) 03:13, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Publicly traded
No mention of when and the history of going public. This would improve the article. - ¢Spender1983 (talk) 04:33, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

More New Problems?
--In error and removed. -- Frank Layden (talk) 02:13, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Now there is a new incident in Kansas. Frank Layden (talk) 01:06, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Dead Link
Source number 9, "Our History" from the Walgreens website is now a dead link. 162.206.141.210 (talk) 18:32, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

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Political Contributions
Article needs to be updated to reflect Walgreens public political contributions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.212.105.169 (talk) 15:28, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

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July 4 robbery in Philadelphia
Something like 60 teenagers ransacked the place, a lot of reporting on it. Ideas on what to call an article? 2019 Philadelphia Walgreens robbery maybe? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.228.88.244 (talk) 05:11, 11 July 2019 (UTC)


 * That would not be an appropriate article for Wikipedia, because Wikipedia is not a newspaper. As the linked essay explains, "Wikipedia does not report on everything going on in the world today. There is usually no need to write articles about things with no historical significance whatsoever." (emphasis added). "When editing Wikipedia to reflect current news, always ask yourself if you are adding something truly encyclopedic and important, or mere trivia. If it is the latter, there may be no need to write about it."


 * Is there any basis for believing this incident will have any lasting historical significance? I just did a quick Google search for walgreens philadelphia and--not even two weeks after this event--at most half of the first page of results goes to news articles about this. And those articles are pretty thin on details. I doubt this will ever meet the criteria for inclusion, but certainly it does not yet.


 * For what it's worth, I do not believe this incident should be added to this article either. I often come across minor points like this in articles, recounting one incident with zero long-term consequences but which, by its inclusion, gives it undue weight in the history of a company, person, etc. Walgreens has 118 years of history and almost 10,000 stores; this is simply not a relevant detail. --EightYearBreak (talk) 03:22, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

What is a "front store," or "food front store"?
In the section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walgreens#Company_history, it says Walgreens began "with a small food front store on the corner of Bowen and Cottage Grove Avenues in Chicago". What is a "front store," or a "food front store"? Greg Dahlen (talk) 14:14, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Big edits
Made a lot of big edits to the page. I think I made it a lot better, but if anyone disagrees with any of my edits, I'd be happy to discuss. Likeanechointheforest (talk) 20:36, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

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Walgreens relationship with Physican prescripton
Village Medical is now owned by the same company that provides the prescriptions and now occupies the same space. This relationship of ownership of the physician and facility providing the medication should create an alarm 184.98.242.111 (talk) 22:24, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

NPOV
I've applied a tag on this article to dispute its neutrality. It currently gives undue weight to criticisms and controversies relative to the overall encyclopedic content of the article, and it is in clear violation of the NPOV policy per the issues described in WP:POVFORM. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 06:33, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
 * That's an essay. Not a policy, or even a guideline. Symmachus Auxiliarus (talk) 09:13, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * No, but WP:BALASP is, and this article seems to flagrantly fail that part of NPOV. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 23:32, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
 * What's one to do, though, if they were in so many controversies? It's not like it's possible to delete the section about opioids, or any other lawsuits, just because they did more bad things than good... or it won't be encyclopedic. 78.151.136.56 (talk) 12:46, 8 December 2023 (UTC)