Walgreens (NYSE: WAG)(Nasdaq: WAG) today announced the latest updates to
its iPhone mobile app that allows users to create photo cards with
special themes such as thank you, holidays, announcements and
invitations. Unique collages also can be created directly from an
iPhone. Walgreens is the first retailer to provide the ability to create
collage prints using a mobile device and pick them up in about an hour.
Photos for these creations easily can be uploaded from the user’s phone,
Facebook or Instagram albums.
Walgreens photo cards with special occasion themes (Photo: Business Wire)
“We’re pleased to provide more creative capabilities to our users as we
continue to enhance the photo functionality within our mobile app,” said
Jasbir Patel, divisional vice president, Daily Living, Photo and
Omni-channel, Walgreens. “Consumers are accustomed to using their mobile
devices in non-traditional ways, and Walgreens gives them easy access to
products and services, wherever and whenever they choose.”
For customers on the go, the updated app lets users easily search for
Walgreens or Duane
Reade stores based on offerings such as 24-hour locations,
drive-thru pharmacies and Healthcare Clinics at select Walgreens.
Additionally, the app provides improved virtual floor maps allowing for
easier access to products and better in-store experience.
To download the Walgreens
app, please visit the iTunes
Store.
About Walgreens
As the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2012 sales of $72
billion, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com)
vision is to be the first choice in health and daily living for everyone
in America, and beyond. Each day, Walgreens provides more than 6 million
customers the most convenient, multichannel access to consumer goods and
services and trusted, cost-effective pharmacy, health and wellness
services and advice in communities across America. Walgreens scope of
pharmacy services includes retail, specialty, infusion, medical facility
and mail service, along with respiratory services. These services
improve health outcomes and lower costs for payers including employers,
managed care organizations, health systems, pharmacy benefit managers
and the public sector. The company operates 8,117 drugstores in all 50
states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Take Care Health
Systems is a Walgreens subsidiary that is the largest and most
comprehensive manager of worksite health and wellness centers, medical
practices, and in-store convenient care clinics, with more than 700
locations throughout the country.
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