Walgreens has a television commercial that promotes some of its innovations. Why exactly consumers would care about these innovations is not precisely clear to me but just the same as a history buff I pay attention and learned that one of these innovations or claims is that Walgreens had the first nonprofit pharmacy dedicated to the "troops".
I went searching for validation of this claim, of course just to learn more, and according to Walgreens' website, in 1943,
The company opened a nonprofit 6,000-foot drugstore in the Pentagon. All the profits from the store went to the Pentagon Post Restaurant Council, which supervised food service in the complex. The store operated into the 1980s.
So, it appears that the claim has some validity. What appears to be a social venture, not specifically benefitting Walgreens, was indeed developed serving a fairly defined "troops". More interesting to me would be to learn who governed this nonprofit. And how did the governors ensure that there were sufficient profits to satisfy the needs of the Council? And hoow big were the needs of the Council? And, wasn't the Council a nonprofit so would the Walgreens be in fact a subsidiary of the Council? Ah, more questions than answers......