Walgreens co-chief operating officer Alex Gourlay told shareholders last month that the company is looking at what happens to customers in Gainesville who are used to buying cigarettes and no longer do now that the stores dont sell them
In 2015, increased frequency at c-stores combined with CVS departure from the category turned flat-to-declining tobacco sales into an increase of 3.4%, according to the SOI report
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last week said he would introduce federal legislation sometime next month, marking the strongest support yet in Congress for whats been dubbed T21.
others who have passed such laws include Washington, Hawaii, California, New Jersey, Oregon, Maine and Massachusetts, Arkansas and Virginia
Walgreens executives said in January during a call with shareholders that the Gainesville test is being used to evaluate the future of tobacco sales in its stores