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The title of this article needs to be changed from "Walgreens" to "Walgreen's". This is because the surname of the company's founder was "Walgreen" and "Walgreen's" is possessive. Possessives have apostrophes except for pronouns such as "its," "hers," "his," "theirs," and "ours" (etc., in case there
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I can believe that this article has been on here for such a period of time without being challenged as advertising spam. Anyone could find every bit of this page on the company's corporate website and SEC filings. Walgreens is a great company but does not need wiki's help in marketing its brand.
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OK, so...uh, is anyone going to do anything about this? It's obviously a PR puff piece, but nobody's doing anything about it. As for the question of apostrophe, the name of the store and the company is
Walgreens (no apostrophe). Oh, and sign your comments.
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