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A deal that would allow Walgreens Boots Alliance to divest a few hundred stores to Fred' s Pharmacy to satisfy antitrust regulators could boost the fortunes of the buyer and seller.

Fred' s management last week acknowledged a ? pending transaction? it couldn' t discuss. But speculation has centered on a deal that would involve
Fred' s buying some of the up to 1,000 stores Walgreens needs to divest and satisfy Federal Trade Commission concerns over the acquisition of Rite Aid RAD . Because Fred' s operations are in 15 southeastern states, Walgreens and Rite Aid may also sell stores to other buyers like Kroger KR ,
which owns several grocery store chains across the country.

But it makes sense for Fred' s to buy some Walgreens operations because the management team at Fred' s knows the Walgreens operations and its real estate quite well.
Fred' s CFO is Rick Hans who was a top finance and real estate executive at Walgreens for 27 years and helped develop more than 250 Walgreens stores. Hans joined Fred' s earlier this year.

Fred' s wants to shift from its ? past heritage as Fred' s Super Dollar? to focus on ? personal healthcare.? Fred' s has 648 discount general merchandise stores, but not all have pharmacies.
There are 370 ? full-service pharmacy departments located within Fred' s stores,? the company' s website says.

Fred' s management team, led by CEO Michael Bloom, will divest 40 ? underperforming stores in the first half of 2017,? executives said last week on their third-quarter earnings call.

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