merged with walgreens boots alliance . discuss proposed since october 2016 . this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . december 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message drugstore.com inc. web address http drugstore.com commercial no type of site subsidiary retail online shopping registration no available in english owner walgreens boots alliance created by walgreens of deerfield illinois editor dawn g. lepore chairman president and ceo 2004 2011 when walgreens purchased the company launched february 24 1999 ; 17 years ago 1999 02 24 current status no drugstore.com was an internet retailer in health and beauty care products . its web operations were launched on february 24 1999 . in june 1999 rite aid entered into a ten year strategic relationship with drugstore.com which allowed drugstore.com customers to pick up prescriptions at rite aid stores and enabled drugstore.com to sell rite aid products as well as vitamins from retailer general nutrition center gnc . on september 3 2008 drugstore.com amended and restated both the main agreement and the pharmacy supply and services agreement dated june 17 1999 between rite aid and drugstore.com . through those agreements with rite aid drugstore.com had access to rite aid customers through the riteaid.com website and the rite aid online store which was powered by the drugstore.com website . drugstore.com ended a sourcing deal with amazon.com in 2005 . in addition to the drugstore.com website the company also maintains storefronts at beauty.com visiondirect.com lensmart.com lensworld.com and lensquest.com . it is headquartered at 411 108th ave. ne suite 1600 ; bellevue wa 98004 ; 425 372 3200 . its customer service centers are located in bellevue washington and halifax nova scotia . ds distribution inc. located in the pureland industrial complex in logan township new jersey is its wholly owned subsidiary responsible for the distribution of otc products beauty.com products and cns custom nutrition services products . distribution of visiondirect.com products is from a center in logan township new jersey . prescriptions are handled by walgreens . 1 it has an fsa store containing items that are likely to be eligible for purchase using a medical flexible spending account and by extension a health reimbursement account or health savings account as well . this in turn led to its invention of the very first inventory information approval system iias in 2005 ; it wasn t used in brick and mortar retailing until 2006 by walgreens . under a 2006 internal revenue service ruling iias must be installed by every grocery store discount store and internet pharmacy that accepts fsa debit cards by the end of 2007 and by most chain pharmacies by the end of 2008 . on december 28 2009 drugstore.com said that it would buy salu inc. the operator of skinstore.com for 36 million . on march 24 2011 drugstore.com was acquired by walgreens for 409 million . 2 on july 28 2016 walgreens said it would shut down drugstore.com as well as beauty.com to focus on its own walgreens.com website . 3 references edit pharmacy services by walgreens . drugstore.com . retrieved 11 december 2014 . robin wauters techcrunch . boom walgreens buys online retailer drugstore.com for 409 million . march 24 2011 . northwest innovation drugstore.com beauty.com to be shut down by walgreens . july 28 2016 . external links edit drugstore.com website hoovers fact sheet yahoo finance drugstore.com will buy salu inc. for 36 million v t e walgreens boots alliance subsidiaries alliance healthcare boots uk boots contract manufacturing boots opticians drugstore.com duane reade farmacias benavides guangzhou pharmaceuticals 50 % walgreens walgreens health services predecessors alliance boots cunningham drug dollond & aitchison drug fair farmacias el amal happy harry s kerr drug usa drug brands no. 7 17 cosmetics luminese people stefano pessina elizabeth fagan simon roberts charles rudolph walgreen charles rudolph walgreen jr. gregory wasson jim skinner jesse boot 1st baron trent john boot 2nd baron trent john boot ornella barra yves romestan stewart adams sir gordon hobday related grupo sanborns ibuprofen intercom plus schoep s ice cream strepsils walgreen drug store historic site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title drugstore.com & oldid 742808445 categories online retailers of the united statesretail companies established in 1999internet properties established in 1999online companieshidden categories articles to be merged from october 2016all articles to be mergedarticles needing additional references from december 2014all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 october 2016 at 22 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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