Walgreens and CVS definitively close several pharmacies, from today
Your prescriptions could be more difficult to collect after these pharmacie closings.
Our shopping options in person sometimes have the impression of decreasing. Do you want to buy things for your home? Well, your premises Bed bathtub and beyond the store Perhaps not an option, because the company half reduces its retail footprint. Maybe you need office supplies? Do not count on an open Office deposit store , because the retailer closes certain locations this month. Now even your prescriptions could be at risk. Walgreens and CVS are preparing to close several pharmacies, from today. Read more to find out more about these pharmacie closings.
Read this then: Walmart closes several locations, from February 17 .
Walgreens soon closes several of its stores.
Walgreens will be busy making a number of cuts in the next two months. On February 21, the pharmacy chain is locate In Ridgewood, New York, reported QNS. One day after the closure of Ridgewood Walgreens, Minneapolis residents, Minnesota, will also lose a location. The company told Fox 9 that its store on Broadway avenue will permanently close February 22.
Walgreens spokesperson Kris Lathan confirmed the two newly announced closures in a declaration to Better life . "Faced with the difficult task of closing a particular location, several factors are taken into account, including things such as local market dynamics and changes in the purchasing habits of our patients and customers," said Lathan .
Better life previously reported that Walgreens will be Fence of a pharmacy In Johnsbury, Vermont, on February 22, as well as another store in Houston, Missouri, March 7.
But the company closes other pharmacies even earlier.
However, Walgreens plans to close its own pharmacies. The just health care giant A acquired medalist After a judge of the United States's bankruptcy court for the Delaware district approved the Walgreens agreement to buy the company for $ 19.35 million on February 7, The Press Democrat reported. According to the California newspaper, this acquisition led to the closure of at least three pharmacies in the state. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
At the end of 2021, Medly Health acquired Pharmaca, a pharmacy and complete well-being company based in Boulder, in Colorado. Consequently, Walgreens said that it would close the locations of Pharmaca thanks to its acquisition of the active ingredients from Medly The Press Democrat . This includes three pharmacies in North Bay in Sonoma, Napa and Novato.
Tidy , director of the Sonoma Pharmaca store, said Sonoma index that their pharmacy operations will close On February 9, but the store itself will remain open until February 25 to sell other products.
And these are not necessarily the only locations that Walgreens will close. "We are delighted to have concluded an agreement to acquire pharmaceutical files and other assets selected in 22 Pharmaca integrative pharmacies and 4 mechanical pharmacies nationally," said Lathan Better life . "Although specific details in store are always finalized given the timetable for the bankruptcy court on Tuesday, prescription files and stocks should be transferred to Walgreens pharmacies nearby by mid-February."
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CVS also closes stores in the near future.
CVS also cuts locations in the coming weeks. The company will be definitively store To monks, Iowa, on March 1, reported Kcci affiliated to CBS. CVS told the station that the Moines store on Euclid avenue was partly closed due to "factors [which] include local market dynamics, population changes and the density of a community stores".
A few weeks later, a CVS in Tallahassee, Florida, Closes its doors For good, reported WTXL ABC-Affiliate. Matt Blanchette , a CVS principal director, told the station that his store on South Monroe Street closes definitively on March 16.
Better life contacted CVS to confirm these newly announced closures but has not yet heard.
We previously pointed out that a CVS location in Washington, D.C., would also close on February 27. A company spokesperson described the decision to close this "difficult" store at the time.
"Maintaining access to pharmacy services in the communities we serve is an important factor that we consider when making store decisions," added CVS spokesperson.
This company also reduces pharmacy hours from next month.
Even if your local CVS store should not close, the pharmacy will probably be closing earlier. A company spokesperson recently told Better life that CVS is Cup hours About two thirds of its retail pharmacies, from March. The new hours will vary depending on the location, according to the spokesperson.
"By adjusting the hours in some stores this spring, we make sure that our pharmacy teams are available to serve patients when they are most necessary," said the spokesperson. "If a pharmacy is closed, a patient can visit any open CVS pharmacy location to get help for their immediate prescription needs."
