Word: walgreen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smokers feel powerless in the face of addiction; witness the many old people you see in the street nowadays, who despite ill health and even lack of money, will simply carry on buying cigarettes. We've all seen old men rummaging around in their pocket for coins at a Walgreen's counter to buy their third packet of cigarettes that day--packs they probably can't really afford. Ask them why they still smoke, and they'll answer with a raspy voice, "I'm too old to quit." The opposite story, that of young people who thoughtlessly take up smoking...
...contrast, the Kodak-Intel Picture CD is simple and fun. You drop off your 35-mm or APS film at a participating photo center (Walgreen's, Wal-mart, CVS, Target or Eckerd Drug, to name a few) and pay $10 or so more than you would for print-only processing. The Picture CD package you get back includes a contact sheet, a set of paper prints and a CD with digital renderings of your photos. Put the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive, and you'll see the images displayed in an interface that looks like a magazine...
...What makes us different than the nationalchains like Walgreen's and others is we have avery loyal base of customers," Skenderian says...
...Campbell Soup chairman David Johnson savored a raise to $6.6 million, a jump of 150%, as Campbell stock climbed more than 36%, to 60. After Rockwell International's stock price leaped nearly 50%, to 527/8, CEO Donald Beall pocketed a tidy $5.5 million, a 45% bump over '94. Charles Walgreen, of the eponymous retail drugstore chain, took a compensation hike of 82%, to $4 million, while the company stock climbed 37% for the year. On Wall Street, where the M&A frenzy made for a historic $458 billion worth of deals--up from the previous high of $347 billion just...
...chain stores like CVS, Bradlees, K Mart, Walgreen's, and Woolworth's have all ceased to sell the water gun in the area...