Lydia Ramsey / Business Insider: Finance
Walgreens is forging alliances with tech giants like Microsoft as it prepares for war with Amazon (W – * As a defensive move, Walgreens has taken a partnership approach, forging alliances rather than doing outright takeovers. On Tuesday, Walgreens reached another such deal with Microsoft. In December, it partnered with Alphabets life sciences arm Verily. In the not-so-distant future, on the shelves of Walgreens stores alongside headache pills, …