Walgreens Starts Selling Vapes for the First Time Since 2019

Walgreens has started selling vapes in some stores across the US, a surprise reversal after the drugstore chain stopped selling them more than six years ago amid concerns about their popularity with teens.

The storied American pharmacy chain, recently acquired by private equity company Sycamore Partners, put vapes on some store shelves earlier this year, according to workers who weren’t authorized to speak publicly. A Juul Labs Inc spokesperson said its products are either now available, or about to be, in around 6,000 of the pharmacy chain’s nearly 8,000 locations.

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