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Walgreens formerly owned Sanborns, one of the largest pharmacy and department store chain in Mexico, having purchased Sanborns from Frank Sanborn in 1946 and selling it to Grupo Carso in 1982.
In the 1980s, Walgreens owned and operated a chain of casual family restaurants named Wag's, an attempt to compete with Woolworth's lunch counters. The Wag's restaurants were very similar in concept to Denny's. Walgreens sold most of these to Marriott Corp. in 1988 and by 1991 the chain had completely gone out of business.
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