WALGREENS

Walgreens, the National Council for Behavioral Health and the American Pharmacists Association are teaming up to bring mental health first aid training to certain Walgreens pharmacists and associates.

The Consumer Goods Forum’s health-and-wellness efforts are bringing together retailers, manufacturers and local organizations to build healthier communities and demand for healthier products.

The two major drug chains still selling tobacco products this past week took moves to restrict who can purchase the products in their stores.

Walgreens has more than 1,300 safe medication disposal kiosks in 46 states and Washington, D.C., to help make it easier for patients to dispose of unwanted or unused medication.

Walgreens will be implementing a chainwide policy requiring a shopper to be at least 21 years old to purchase tobacco products, effective Sept. 1.

For the fifth year in a row, Walgreens is supporting Red Nose Day with the help of its Everyday Heroes squad who helped kick off celebrations on retail shelves.

The two companies have teamed up to test SmileShops within four Walgreens stores in four markets — Tampa, Fla.; Orlando, Fla.; Cleveland, Ohio; and Tempe, Ariz.

Through the partnership, retailers that use Narvar can offer consumers the option to pick up orders or drop off returns to any of the more than 8,000 Walgreens stores with FedEx OnSite services.