Walgreens fine-tunes the front end

August 11, 2017 by Jeffrey Woldt Charles R. Walgreen, Joe Hartsig, Walgreens Leading Headlines, Retail News, Topics

DEERFIELD, Ill. — Joe Hartsig, the new chief merchant at Walgreens, is taking one of the guiding principles established 116 years ago by the drug chain’s founder, Charles R. Walgreen, and updating it for 21st century shoppers. The idea “we believe in the merchandise we sell” is being recast as “we believe in the experience