Fewer Walgreens across the street from CVS stores?

[sekker]

Walgreens - closing 1200 stores.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/15/walgreen...-2024.html

[SteveG]

Overpriced everything

[NewtonMP2100]

….Walgreens/Duane Reade prices cheaper than CVS……

[RecipeForDisaster]

We don’t have any pharmacies except one Walgreens for a 25 minute drive or so. When you’re sick, that is important. I hope they don’t close ours… mail order is doable when it works well and if you don’t need anything new soon.

I used to work for Brooks (that became Rite Aid and then got eaten up by Walgreens). This store was about 4-5 other pharmacies in my lifetime, and I’ve always used it.

[Rick-o]

That's just wonderful! :villagers:

We just lost our only pharmacy, (Rite-Aid forced out our Mom & Pop Pharmacy when they came to town) and I now have to drive to the next town as my Doctors have transferred my 'scripts to Walgreens as a replacement for the now closed Rite-Aid.

[ka jowct]

Drug stores mushroomed all over NYC for years, far out of proportion to need, as did bank branches. Quite a few of those locations have closed. No more Rite Aid at all, of course.

Mail to our buildings/in our neighborhood goes into the wrong boxes often enough to make me leery of using a service that mails prescriptions, even though picking them up is a pain in the butt, especially now, when I am 3 weeks away from hip replacement. The walking involved in getting to my Walgreen's is pretty miserable.

[wurm]

I think the only time I've gone into a Walgreens in the past ten years was to pick up some free prints that pRICE posted about here on the forum.

[Will Collier]

Gotta think the recent move to lock everything up due to rampant shoplifting has something to do with this. Certainly that's made me more likely to go to Amazon than a local store that has what I'm looking for behind a sheet of plexiglas and nobody in sight to unlock it.

[Black]

I quit my closest Walgreen's several years ago. I'm sad that so many have closed downtown (as have most CVS) but that's a much bigger problem than Walgreen's.

[mrbigstuff]

retail is hard to support in non-big-box situations now. most retail is traditionally difficult to maintain, but I think the Targets, Walmarts and Costcos of the world have subsumed these smaller shops.