

Charles Rudolph’s time with Horton’s Drugstore led him to take up a career in pharmacy. In fact, the store started as just a neighborhood store until Charles Rudolph Walgreen Sr., its founder, came along in 1901 and started the company.īut before Charles Rudolph started his company, he’d worked as a staff in Horton’s Drugstore in Illinois at the age of sixteen, a company that eventually failed. Understand that Walgreens wasn’t always the giant it is today. The company’s vast network of shops employs almost a quarter-million employees. The company operates over 9,000 drugstores in every state of America, not to mention that it serves an astonishing 8 million customers daily. Today, Walgreens has earned a solid reputation as the best and affordable destination for prescription medications. Walgreens rose from being just a regular neighborhood store to becoming one of the largest pharmacy store chains in the country. Now, if there’s anything America’s sweet Golden Age of Capitalism brought to the world, then it’s great companies, one of which is a drugstore that rose from ashes to achieve a height-and history-only few can dream of, and that company is Walgreens.


Although you may not be aware, Walgreens has made it their purpose to champion the health and well-being of every community in America, and yes, they’re doing a spectacular job.
