Walgreens to close 1,200 stores as US pharmacies struggle to define a new role

DANmode · 2024-10-16T01:05:15.000000Z

These types of companies have terrible corporate culture.

Good riddance.

Family health, family doctor, family foodstore, family drugstore.

Or, details will be missed.

JojoFatsani · 2024-10-16T02:15:53.000000Z

The alternative to Walgreens is the ever tightening CVS monopoly.

bravetraveler · 2024-10-16T03:45:14.000000Z

Boring variety, tight duopoly. Go to one and you can hit the other with a rock

Philadelphia · 2024-10-16T04:02:35.000000Z

CVS owns an entire health insurance company, a pharmacy benefits management company, and a chain of urgent care offices, among other things. They’re not a warm, fuzzy monopoly.

bravetraveler · 2024-10-16T04:09:32.000000Z

I don't think I called either of them warm or fuzzy, they're so joined... the distinction has little meaning to me