Rick Romell

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Green Bay-based retailer Shopko has sold another chunk of its pharmacy business, this time to supermarket chain Hy-Vee Inc.

Hy-Vee, based in West Des Moines, Iowa, said it has acquired the business of 22 Shopko pharmacies in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota.

The acquisition comes just days after Kroger Co. said it was buying the pharmacy files at 42 Shopko locations, including 25 in Wisconsin.

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Hy-Vee declined to disclose the price of the latest pharmacy purchase.

Only one Hy-Vee in Wisconsin — on Madison’s west side — is taking over prescriptions from Shopko. Most of the pharmacies involved in the Hy-Vee deal are in Minnesota and Nebraska.

Besides selling part of its pharmacy business, Shopko recently said it will close 39 stores in 14 states. Only one Wisconsin store, in Mauston, is closing.

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A Shopko spokeswoman could not be reached Monday.

According to its website, Shopko has more than 300 stores in the central U.S., West and Pacific Northwest. Formerly a public company, Shopko was purchased in 2005 by Sun Capital Partners Inc., a private equity firm based in Boca Raton, Florida.