How Walgreens Is Leveraging Big Data

By SAP for Retail

With 238,000 employees, 23,000 pharmacists, fiscal year 2007 revenue of US$63.3B, and more than 6,000 stores across the United States, Deerfield, Illinois–based Walgreen Co. runs Walgreens, the leading retail pharmacy chain in the United States. Every day, nearly 5 million customers walk through the doors of a Walgreens store. Many are there to pick up prescribed medications – Walgreens pharmacists filled more than 580 million prescriptions last year. Others take advantage of a broad merchandise selection averaging 25,000 different items per store.