In this photo, a business sign hangs over the entrance to a Walgreens pharmacy and store in Alexandria, Virginia in 2018. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) Walgreens Boots Alliance is ...

Walgreens shares jumped 20% on Tuesday on a report that the pharmacy giant is in talks to go private – at a small fraction of the price the company’s stock fetched less than a decade ago.

Walgreens’ problem, first and foremost, is that it’s more of a traditional pharmacy than CVS. Walgreens has slipped behind CVS because it’s smaller than CVS, giving it less scale to ...

Walgreens, the second largest pharmacy chain in the U.S., has struggled in recent years. The company operates 99 stores in Chicago. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file Share Deerfield-based Walgreens is in ...

(Reuters) -Walgreens Boots Alliance is in talks to sell itself to private equity firm Sycamore Partners, according to a person familiar with the matter, the latest attempt by the pharmacy chain ...

The retail pharmacy landscape could be in for a shake-up with one of its giants potentially ceding control to private equity. As it struggles to turn around its financial troubles, Walgreens is ...

Crank said there are concerns a sale of Walgreens to private equity firm Sycamore Partners—as reported by the Wall Street Journal—could shift focus of the pharmacy giant. The result ...

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Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) shares soared Tuesday afternoon on a report that the struggling pharmacy chain is in ...

Walgreens and Sycamore declined to comment. Shares of the second-largest U.S. pharmacy chain operator surged about 18% following the news. If the talks are successful, it could be Sycamore's ...