Walgreens bringing back beer, wine

Once considered the largest liquor retailer in the country, Walgreen Co. went dry in almost all of its drugstores about a decade ago after deciding that liquor departments were too unwieldy to manage.

Now the largest U.S. drugstore chain is reversing course. It plans to introduce beer and wine to as many Walgreens stores as possible, spurring resistance among some local communities.

The about-face comes amidst heightened competition with drugstore rival CVS Caremark Corp., which sells alcohol in more than half of its CVS stores nationwide. Those CVS stores include three of the four locations it recently opened as part of a new expansion in the St. Louis market.

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