
The company formed a new health segment and announced that it will partner with VillageMD to open primary care clinics. CVS and Walmart are major competitors, and it will take time to determine if their new strategy pays off.The key to Walgreens’ primary care strategy is the partnership with VillageMD. The idea is to integrate the clinic with the Walgreens pharmacy so that the patient’s doctors and pharmacists can know if their prescriptions have adverse side effects or high deductibles.