Posted on 01/26/2024 12:23:03 PM PST by DallasBiff
In December, Roxbury residents learned the Walgreens location on Warren Street would close its doors in January. It's the fourth Boston Walgreens to close in just over a year, all of which have been in predominately Black and Latino neighborhoods. For customers in those communities, the closures mean more than just losing a pharmacy — it may also mean decreased access to groceries, hygiene products and certain essential healthcare services.
Today on The Common, Boston Globe Money, Power and Inequality Reporter Tiana Woodard explains how the closure of retail pharmacies further exacerbates healthcare disparities in the city and what options remain for impacted communities.
(Excerpt) Read more at wbur.org ...
The store is an borderline neighborhood, the CVS across the street completely shut down.
There is a Walgreens just a 1/2 mile down the road.
I'm guessing consalidation.
. Anyway, I don't take big pharma poison.
Theft causes pharmacy deserts.
A “drug desert”.
Wait.... that won’t work in these neighbor-hoods will it?
I guess they got tired of having all their controlled substance medications stolen.
In any case, these places are closing because of rampant customer crime, and if local government and LE won’t do anything about it because those resident voters there do nothing, then it’s their problem.
Our Rite Aid was replaced by a Walgreens. I liked Rite Aid much better.
The Walgreens lasted one year before it closed (theft), and then the local CVS closed, too. We have to drive out much further now to go to a drug store.
Replace them with abortion clinics
Walgreens deserts. LOL!!!
You got your BLM and now you ain’t got Cops. You got the $1000 shoplifter legalized and you’re worried you steal there legally forever? The corporations paid BLM off, but BLM was never about the little guy. The DNC has nothing left to burn, loot or employees to murder - guess they miscalculated with their reparations and racial hatred of whites. You want your criminals back in your community and not in jail - good, reap what you Axed fer.
CRIME has consequences, especially crime run amok.
all of which have been in predominately Black and Latino high crime neighborhoods.
One of our local Walgreens closed and was replaced by a Dollar Tree.
I don’t know why the Roxbury Walgreens closed. Was it because it was too close to another Walgreens, or was it because of rampant crime?
Individuals have the right to their life, liberty, and property. This means that store owners have the right to protect their businesses and the fruits of their labor from harm or loss caused by criminal activities. However, it is important to note that they are not obligated to bear the burden of operating in a high crime area if it jeopardizes their rights or compromises their ability to be productive and successful.
In such circumstances, store owners may choose to relocate their businesses to safer areas where their rights and property are better protected. This decision is a rational one driven by self-interest and the desire to protect one’s own well-being and livelihood. It is not a matter of callousness or indifference towards the community but rather a recognition of the reality that the cost of operating in a high crime area may outweigh the potential benefits.
Yes well theft from those stores also equals less access to those items as well, because they’re STOLEN
I think this opens an opportunity for Darryl C. Murphy and Frannie Monahan to make a killing by opening a drug store and grocery store in those food and pharmacy deserts who desperately need and appreciate them.
Tough
Shitsky
Self-inflicted ‘crisis’
< yawn >
a city cannot expect any business to stay long if there’s a lot of criminals, druggies, and beggars haunting the entryway
The crime stats in Roxbury are double the neighboring areas
Yeah, mmm
Maybe stop shoplifting?
“…Boston Globe Money, Power and Inequality Reporter Tiana Woodard…”
Can’t make this sh.. up.
They’re upset they have one less store to rob
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