Business & Tech Walgreens to Pay $7.5 Million to Two Bay Area Counties Over Phony Pharmacist The Walgreens pharmacy chain has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a case in which an employee succeeded in impersonating a pharmacist for 11 years and illegally wrote prescriptions for patients in Alameda and Santa Clara counties.
SF News Walgreens Announces Plans To Shutter 600 Stores, Likely Including Some In SF Following their deal to acquire a portion of Rite Aid's store inventory, Walgreens announced this week that it plans to shutter 600 stores, most of them under the Rite Aid brand, but including
SF News Two Employees At 9th And Market Walgreens Stabbed Two employees at the Walgreens store at 9th and Market Streets were stabbed by an alleged thief on Wednesday morning, police told Bay City News. The crime took place at around 7 a.
SF News Walgreens Is Suing Theranos For $140 Million Over Voided Blood Tests Walgreens is suing the embattled health startup Theranos over claims that the company breached its contract with the pharmacy chain after it was forced to void years worth of blood tests and give
SF News Hate San Francisco's Proliferation Of Walgreens? Blame Willie Brown According to the Walgreens "store locator," the drugstore/emergency cat litter shop/place to grab gum and milk has around 50 locations across San Francisco, quite a feat given our city's notorious opposition
Arts & Entertainment New Teeny Tiny Target Store To Open In The Financial District It appears that Financial District workers will soon have a new place to pick up stuff like eco-friendly cleaners, lip balm, and that pasta with the bunny on the box, as Target announced
SF News Is Your Neighborhood Walgreens Infested With Rodents? KRON4 Investigates. Several local Walgreens outlets are in the spotlight this week after the grocery store watchdogs at KRON4 News began investigating reports of rodents scampering through the aisles of cheap snacks, greeting cards and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Egg Sale At Allegedly Vermin Infested Walgreens Prompts Riot Not since the blessing scam tote bag riot of 2013 has San Francisco's Chinatown seen such a melee! According to the SF Examiner, the Walgreens at Stockton near Vallejo was the scene of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scrappy Mice Temporarily Shutter Chinatown Walgreens, Bakery A closed Walgreens is like a closed heart, a closed mind. Nothing good can come from it. All is bleak. All is lost. Sadly, that's just what had to happen for several harrowing
SF News Cookie Monster Sets Fire to $1,400 Worth Of Baked Goods A 29-year-old woman became some kind of monster earlier this week when she walked into a Walgreens store at Market and Third Streets, sprayed lighter fluid all over an aisle full of cookies
SF News San Francisco's Five Worst Walgreens Walgreens. It's a great equalizer. We all need toothpaste (well, most of us), Advil, Band-aids, tampons, and deodorant (yes, you do), not to mention hastily selected non-porn birthday cards and toilet paper. Thus,
SF News Walgreens Sued For Firing Diabetic South S.F. Cashier As the Chronicle reported on Friday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal suit against Walgreens on Thursday for firing a diabetic South San Francisco cashier, Josefina Hernandez. Hernandez had
SF News Richmond Neighbors Try To Keep PETCO Out PETCO, it seems, wants to open one of their Unleashed stores in the spot that used to house Walgreens at 18th Avenue and Geary. But Richmond businesses and residents aren't having any of
SF News What's Going On Here, Marijuana Plant In Front of Walgreens? While we head over to Spear and Mission to check out the authenticity of this apparent marijuana plant, please read what a tipster sent to us: There's a giant marijuana plant that looks
misc Walgreens: Paranoid Much? In great anticipation of the big riots last night, the Union Square Walgreens locations decided to be paranoid proactive and board up their windows. A few other locations were boarded up as well.
misc SFist Out and About We spotted this inappropriate kids' t-shirt at the Walgreens on Powell near O'Farrell.
SF News Judge Dismisses Walgreens Whine Over Cigarette Sales Ban Our favorite 'no' judge in San Francisco, Peter Busch, brought the hammer down on beloved Walgreens today. See, after SF banned the sale of cigarettes at all Walgreens, the company, in turn, brought
SF News Walgreens vs. Board of Supervisors: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em Plug 1 from WhatImSeeing (he seems to be everywhere all at once!) sent us this image today after he picked up a pack of cool, smooth, refreshing Parliament Lights. It seems Walgreens, a
SF News PG&E Vault Explosion In Downtown SF Oh my, word. Did you hear it? We received a few emails mentioning it, but NBC 11 confirms: "As of 4:10 p.m., PG & E activity in the vicinity of California
SF News Make-Me-Governor Tour: Another Cigarette Ban Little ol' San Francisco made ink in USA Today as part of Mayor Gavin Newsom's clever plan to rule to the state of California. What pressing issue is he tackling this time? Tobacco
misc Et Tu, Walgreens? Other than hawking some of the cheapest yet most breakable electronics around, we simply refuse to believe that Walgreen's can do wrong. Just walking thought their aisles of colorful and affordable products makes
