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...CVS also significantly expanded its presence in the drug benefit business with its $21bn purchase of Caremark, one of the leading prescription benefit management companies that bulk buys discounted drugs...
...CVS added 700 stores to its network this year with its acquisition of freestanding Osco/Savon drug stores, previously operated by Albertson’s, a supermarket group....
...The deal was to be linked to a separate sale by Albertson’s of its 695 freestanding Osco and Savon drug stores to CVS, the leading national drug store chain....
...Shaw’s in New England, Jewel Osco in Chicago, and Acme in Phildelphia are all in reasonable shape. Those could go to Supervalu, bidding alongside Cerberus....
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