Walgreens Hints More Partnerships, Not Big Deals In The Future

Walgreens Boots Alliance said it’s beginning to implement some of its much-anticipated testing of new retail healthcare and pharmacy concepts from a pilot project laboratory in Gainesville, Florida and other sites to drugstores across the country.

Executives have been launching an array of partnerships that so far have been in the pilot testing phase like a recently announced deal with the big grocery chain Kroger to an arrangement with UnitedHealth Group that began last year to develop urgent care centers next to Walgreens stores in certain markets.