{"id":344,"date":"2011-07-29T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2011\/07\/ideas-turn-to-actions-as-largest-pharmacy-retailer-aims-to-combat-food-deserts\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T11:44:00","slug":"ideas-turn-to-actions-as-largest-pharmacy-retailer-aims-to-combat-food-deserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2011\/07\/ideas-turn-to-actions-as-largest-pharmacy-retailer-aims-to-combat-food-deserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideas Turn to Actions as Largest Pharmacy Retailer Aims to Combat \u2018Food Deserts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to Drug Store News<\/i>, Walgreens has signed an agreement to convert or open at least 1,000 stores across the country using its \u2018food oasis\u2019 concept over the next five years. The initiative is part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s and the Partnership for a Healthier America’s recent announcement to bring healthy, affordable food to nearly 10 million people during that time period.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Since early 2010, Walgreens has opened food oasis stores in major markets such as Chicago<\/st1:city> and San Francisco<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>. \u00a0The result was stores that saw their food selection expanded by up to 60% while offering a larger assortment of fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein and other healthy meal components <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Walgreens is one of several retailers that have signed on to combat food deserts; albeit one of the only companies whose primary business is other than food retailing. Other retailers include Supervalu and Walmart, as well as Brown\u2019s Super Stores, Calhoun Enterprises and Klein\u2019s Family Markets. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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According to Chain Store Guide<\/b>, grocery sales for traditional drug chains like Walgreens have been on the rise for years now, as well as other non-pharmaceutical front-end categories.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Drug Chains\u2019 Front-End Product Category Sales*<\/o:p><\/span><\/u><\/div>\n
Sales in Billions ($)<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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*Source: 2011 Chain Store Guide Database of Drug Store & HBC Chains. Sales years are fiscal year end.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Brian List, Research Editor\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Brian has been with Chain Store Guide since December 2006. He holds a bachelors degree in Marketing Management from Florida Southern College. Please contact him<\/a> if you have questions or comments.<\/span><\/div>\n
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According to Drug Store News, Walgreens has signed an agreement to convert or open at least 1,000 stores across the country using its \u2018food oasis\u2019 concept over the next five years. The initiative is part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s and the Partnership for a Healthier America’s recent announcement to bring healthy, affordable food to… Continue reading Ideas Turn to Actions as Largest Pharmacy Retailer Aims to Combat \u2018Food Deserts\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-hbc","tag-csg-old","tag-insight","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}