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Hi-School Pharmacy Inc. is a chain of drugstores, hardware stores and combination drugstore/hardware stores based in Vancouver, Washington, USA.
Edith and Ira Nelson started High School Store in 1925 in downtown Vancouver, Washington, right across the street from Vancouver High School on Main Street. Brothers Ken and Matt Zapp bought out the Nelsons and renamed the store Hi-School Pharmacy in 1939. The Zapps sold the Hi-School Pharmacy to Val Mowan in 1948. Mowan sold Hi-School Pharmacy to Steve and Jan Oliva in 1967. The Olivas sold 16 Hi-School Pharmacies to Walgreens, including the original pharmacy location in downtown Vancouver, in 2003. The Olivas retained space at the original location for a Hi-School Ace Hardware store.
Albertsons Companies, Inc. is an American grocery company founded and headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs were the names of a pair of chain pharmacies that operated in the United States. Osco Drug was founded by the Skaggs family. Alpha Beta grocery store was purchased by American Stores in 1961. Skaggs Drug Centers bought American Stores in 1979 and assumed the American Stores name. Sav-on Drugs was a California-based pharmacy chain that was acquired by Osco's parent company in 1980. Both Osco and Sav-on stores eventually came under the ownership of American Stores, then Albertsons, and finally SuperValu before the stores were sold off.
Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores operating under the name Shoppers Drug Mart in ten provinces and two territories, and as Pharmaprix in Quebec.
Hudson's Bay, formerly and still colloquially The Bay, is a Canadian department store chain. It is the main brand of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the oldest and longest-surviving company in North America.
Walgreen Company, d/b/a Walgreens, is an American company that operates as the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS Health. It specializes in filling prescriptions, health and wellness products, health information, and photo services. As of August 31, 2019, the company operated 9,277 stores in the United States. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1901. The Walgreens headquarters office is in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois.
Eckerd Corporation was an American drug store chain that was headquartered in Largo, Florida, and toward the end of its life, in Warwick, Rhode Island.
Duane Reade Inc. is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance. Its stores are primarily located in New York City, and known for high-volume, small store layouts in densely populated Manhattan locations. In 2012, the company headquarters was moved to 40 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, the location of its newest flagship store.
Bi-Mart is an employee-owned chain of retailers located in the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. A typical Bi-Mart houses merchandise including electronics and small appliances, housewares, hardware and power tools, sporting and hunting supplies, apparel, canned and packaged food, personal care products, a drugstore and, at many locations, a pharmacy. The median size of a Bi-Mart store is 31,000 square feet (2,900 m2).
London Drugs Limited is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Richmond, British Columbia. As of September 2019, the chain had 82 stores in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. In addition to pharmacy services, London Drugs locations also sell electronics, housewares, cosmetics, and a limited selection of grocery items.
Hook's Drug Stores was an Indianapolis, Indiana-based drug store chain which was founded in 1900 by John A. Hook. The chain flourished throughout central Indiana for most of the 20th-century.
Longs Drugs is an American chain with approximately 70 drugstores throughout the state of Hawaii and formerly in the Continental US.
Skaggs Companies was the predecessor to many famous United States retailing chains, including Safeway, Albertsons, Osco Drug, and Longs Drugs. The company owned several drugstore chains, but all of them were sold. Skaggs Cos. became American Stores in 1979.
Cunningham Drug Stores Ltd. was a regional pharmacy chain based in British Columbia, Canada.
The Katz Group of Companies is a Canadian privately-owned enterprise, with operations in sports and entertainment and real estate development. Oilers Entertainment Group (OEG), a subsidiary of the Katz Group, owns the National Hockey League five-time Stanley Cup Champion Edmonton Oilers, as well as professional hockey franchises in the American Hockey League, Western Hockey League, and ECHL, and Aquila Productions, an entertainment and event company. OEG operates Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton. Katz Group is also involved in land assembly, site, and building development in Canada and the United States, including the design and development of Ice District, an area encompasses more than 25 acres anchored by Rogers Place. Katz Group is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Its founder and chairman is Daryl Katz.
Peoples Drug was a chain of drugstores based in Alexandria, Virginia Founded in 1905, Peoples was subsequently purchased by Lane Drug in 1975, Imasco in 1984, and finally by CVS in 1990, which continued to run the stores under the Peoples banner until 1994, at which time the stores were converted to CVS, marking the end of the use of the Peoples Drug name.
Schwab's Pharmacy was a drugstore located at 8024 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, and was a popular hangout for movie actors and movie industry dealmakers from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Happy Harry's was an American drugstore chain that was merged into Walgreens starting in 2006. Happy Harry's operated 76 locations in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. It was founded in 1962 by entrepreneur Harry Levin.
Haggen Food & Pharmacy is a grocery retailer in Washington state.
Standard Drug Company was a drugstore chain based in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded in 1919 by Samuel and Leo Rosenthal, who were graduates of the MCV School of Pharmacy. The first store opened on Main Street in Downtown Richmond as a pharmacy only. In 1921 the Rosenthals acquired a large building at the corner of First and Broad streets that became the anchor store to the first discount drug chain in America. It thrived for decades, expanding throughout Virginia into Washington, D.C., and its Maryland suburbs.
Urban Fare is a supermarket chain located in British Columbia. It is a subsidiary of the Overwaitea Food Group, which, in turn, is owned by the Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Group. The chain has six locations, four located in downtown Vancouver and one each in Calgary and Kelowna. It is part of the 'More Rewards' rewards card program as also featured at other stores in the chain such as Save-On-Foods.
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