America needs to bust up these monopolies.
That sound you hear is Atlas shrugging.
And I don’t want to hear a damned thing about “deserts”.
A lot of Walgreens have a doctor’s office in them.
Wonder where those doctors will move?
Sites with a free 1K steal rate. I do hope demonrats have no stores left to shop for o. Except those that charge 27.50 for a loaf oof bread. Hope they starve and chock on their liberal decisions.
Try turning. Them into pharmacies not convince stores.
Amazon moving into the pharmacy business cannot be a good thing for established pharmacies.
Publix, Winn-Dixie, Costco and Walmart all have their own in-store pharmacies, so CVS and Walgreens hardly has a monopoly affecting specific geographic areas. The argument that these mega corporations are hurting people is a false one. The closures will only hurt the employees who will lose their jobs because of the Soros-paid local prosecutors who have encouraged retail theft by decriminalizing it.
I just found a new one after Rite-Aid went t*ts up. Went back to the family owned one I used to go to. They were gonna transfer my scripts to Walgreens until I heard the above news. Not doing that twice.
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Let me guess - the ones in Amish neighborhoods?
Big problem for retired military as Walgreens is one of the few that accepts Tricare. I used to use Kroger then they stopped, Rite-aid when tango uniform, now this. There’s still express scripts but does little good if you need it now.
Walgreens deserves to go out of business. Like almost every other American corporation these days, they are run by flaming idiots. Instead of filling maintenance meds 90 days at a time they only fill 30 days then spam the life out of you for all their goofy useless services.
Simple, in stock medicines like blood pressure or antibiotics can take them days to fill. You can literally mail order most medicines and get them faster.
I’ve never set foot in a Walgreens as our neck of the woods is too sparsely populated for them to move in. But I will say cutting 25% of their stores for the reason stated is only good business.
Our general area is primarily served by the smaller pharmacies. We do have a CVS 90 miles away and I do not like it at all.
Any void will be filled by a small operator, which in my opinion gives much better service. If the void is in a rat infested blue city with high theft rates, then that void will not be filled and the area will just have to learn how to vote differently.
There are three Walgreen's stores within 15 minutes of my house.
Theft has caused small items to be locked up so that they have taken the convenience, out of "convenience store".
Many people are afraid to go out shopping in city hoods, so they take the chance that delivery companies stuff will not be stolen before they can retrieve from their porch.
Many box stores, depending upon their location have eliminated self checkout for the same reasons.
Lack of punishment for "small crimes" is the reason along with the reduction of all crime to "small crime".
No punishment, no respect for the toothless law...like an old west sheriff without a gun.
Typical monopolistic corporation: Builds and builds and builds, forcing out local pharmacies, then contracts by closing the unprofitable ones.
the only surprise to me about this is how long it took ... over a decade ago, walgreens went crazy building new pharmacies in our little town, it seemed like a new one popped on every corner ... a few closed very quickly; one building even turned into a Harbor Freight ...
and then there’s the issue that walgreens charges full retail price for almost everything they sell, so given a local plethora of walmart supercenters, targets, costcos, grocery stores, and sam’s warehouses (all of whom also have discount pharmacies), i never did understand why anyone would ever shop at a walgreens or fill a prescription at one ...
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I always thought these stores were overbuilt, a CVS, Walgreens and something else all right next to each other.