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Despite one of the largest pharmacy companies in the United States, CVS hasMake several choices In the past year, which did not go well with its customers. Last winter, CVS temporarilyclosed some of his pharmacies During several weekends to help reduce staff shortages in the middle of Omicron overvoltage. Customers indicated that they had not received a lot of notice on the closures and that they had unexpectedly encountered closed counters at the driving and pharmacy. And just this month, CVS was struck by a collective appeal of a customer who claims that his hand-based hand alcohol disinfectant isbe marketed with buyers under false pretexts. Now the company is again under fire for a decision that has not even entered into force. Read more to find out what CVS plans to get rid of next month.

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CVS recently made other major changes that have mainly played without too much decline, including a number of closings from permanent stores. In November 2021, the Drugstore Company announced its intention toClose around 300 stores Each year for the next three years, CNBC reported at the time. Although this should represent around 9% of nearly 10,000 American CVS stores, the company said it was part of a larger effort to transform its remaining stores into health care destinations in order to better serve customers Across the country. This includes two new store formats, one that will offer primary care services, and another nicknamed Healthhub, which will sell a greater variety of medical products, as well as offering more services such as therapy meetings and Health projections.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Last year, CVS announced that store closings for its three -year plan would begin in the spring of 2022, although it did not say which stores he would close. Now CVS has confirmed that aThe upcoming closure is established For the location of the Little Village district of Chicago, Illinois, WGN-TV recently reported. According to the media, this store will close for good its doors on June 7. The announcement triggered an immediate backlash.

Michael Rodríguez, a community leader in the neighborhood, and other local elected officials sent a letter to CVS from the Rodríguez office on May 18, asking the company ofReconidate the plans to close the location, according toChicago tribune. Other members of the Little Village community also gathered on May 27 to protest against the closure and urge CVs to keep the location open.

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Rodríguez said toChicago tribune that he learned on CVS plans to close the location of Little Village several weeks ago. Since then, his office has received "a certain number of telephone calls mainly from the elders of the neighborhood, fearing where they will go and fill their prescriptions," he said.

In his letter to CVS, the head of the community noted that the next location closest to the pharmacy is in Cicero, a suburb of Chicago located about two and a half miles from the small CVS in the village. According toChicago tribune, CVS has confirmed in a press release that all the orders filled in the location of the Little Village will be transferred to its Cicero store once it will stop. Residents without cars will have to take one or two buses to fill their prescriptions there, according to Rodríguez.

If customers do not want to go to the location of Cicero, the company also said that they could choose to transfer their drugs to other CVS pharmacies. There is also a Walgreens pharmacy in the street from the little CVs of Little Village, but as theChicago tribune Explain that some patients cannot transfer their prescriptions to this nearby pharmacy because Aetna - which belongs to CVS - deposited Walgreens with its best Aetna health of the Illinois Medicaid network in December 2020.

CVS has refused to disclose exactly the number of prescriptions which it currently completes in the Little Village store, but said that it considered that the community "access to pharmacy services" in its decisions to close the locations. "Maintaining access to pharmacy services in historically un served communities is an important factor that we consider when making store decisions," CVS said in its press release, according to the Chicago tribune .

The company added: "Other factors include the dynamics of the local market, cultural and linguistic barriers, consumer purchase models, the density of a community stores and ensure that there are others Geographic access points to meet the needs of the community, including COVVI-19 tests and vaccinations. ""

But Anne Scheetz , MD, member of the doctors' committee of an Illinois national health program, said at a press conference on May 27 that there were four CVS pharmacies from his house in the neighborhood From Logan Square from Chicago. "They add stores to rich neighborhoods. And they close them in these neighborhoods. This is not true," she said.

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