Walgreens’ February Sales Increase 1.5%

Walgreens had February sales of $5.86 billion, an increase of 1.5% from $5.77 billion for the same month in fiscal 2011. This year’s total February sales benefited from one extra day because of leap year. All comparable store sales and prescription figures below compare the first 28 days in February 2012 to the 28 days in February 2011. Total front-end sales increased 6.9% compared with the same month in 2011, while comparable store front-end sales increased 2%. Customer traffic in comparable stores decreased 0.2% while basket size increased 2.2%. Prescriptions filled at comparable stores decreased 9.5% in February. Lower