Walgreens plant to focus on people with disabilities

Walgreens Co. is nearly finished building a $175 million distribution center in Windsor, CT, in which one-third of the projected 550 jobs will go to people with disabilities.The center will serve 275 drugstores. In a similar Walgreen facility in Anderson, SC, 42 percent of the workers have one or more disabilities. The driving force behind the company’s disability hiring effort is Randy Lewis, the company’s senior vice president of distribution and logistics. Lewis’ son has autism.
Walgreens worked with technology experts to create equipment and software that meets the needs of people with disabilities. Company officials anticipate that the technological improvements will “increase worker productivity by 20 percent and boost long-term job retention in all of its modernized distribution centers.”

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