Walgreens to close 1200 stores in the next 3 years.

[edjr 6,579]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/retail/2024/10/15/walgreens-closing-stores-locations/75683122007/

The economy is fine, stupid.

Walgreens is closing approximately 1,200 stores across the United States as the pharmacy chain struggles with slumping consumer spending.

 

[Gladiators 1,974]

Biden and Harris' America

[avoiding injuries 1,552]

Without reading the article, I can make a good guess on where most of these stores are located. Definitely the ones that have products behind locked cabinets. 

[RLLD 4,188]

1 hour ago, edjr said:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/retail/2024/10/15/walgreens-closing-stores-locations/75683122007/

The economy is fine, stupid.

Walgreens is closing approximately 1,200 stores across the United States as the pharmacy chain struggles with slumping consumer spending.

 

Unpossible.   We have been assured that the economy is just fine.  

[Horseman 2,438]

Its a shame. I can't think of a better symbol at the moment to represent poor blue inner cities than Walgreens. We'll other than graffiti, homeless, drugs and chit on the street. 

[edjr 6,579]

We have 1 Walgreens in my city and I think 4 or 5 CVS'

We have 3 dunkin donuts, 1 starbucks, 1 mcds, 1 dominoes.  I think that is all for 'fast food' 

[HotRod 70]

For the past 20 years it seemed like a Walgreens and a CVS was going up on every corner of America.  Looks like that wasn't the smartest plan.

So much easier to buy this stuff online.

[Death 301]

Amazing that not a single business closed or had layoffs under Trump.

https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/iconic-american-brands-go-through-mass-layoffs-and-bankruptcies-in-trump-recession/

[Mike Honcho 5,250]

It must be a bad economy and not competition from other various places(price clubs, online...). 

[thegeneral 3,095]

This is a consumer spending problem at Walgreens

A terribly run company.

[thegeneral 3,095]

1 hour ago, avoiding injuries said:

Without reading the article, I can make a good guess on where most of these stores are located. Definitely the ones that have products behind locked cabinets. 

This is probably true. 

[shadrap 226]

18 minutes ago, Death said:

Amazing that not a single business closed or had layoffs under Trump.

https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/iconic-american-brands-go-through-mass-layoffs-and-bankruptcies-in-trump-recession/

& amazing you didn't mention covid as the reason.

nice job

[thegeneral 3,095]

There is one of these in a bougie outdoor mall near my place. Place always looks like it is about to close out, shelves empty, one checker. The Red Lobster of drug stores.

[Death 301]

3 minutes ago, shadrap said:

& amazing you didn't mention covid as the reason.

nice job

Amazing that the Biden-Harris America gets blamed for closures attributed to people going online instead. Amazing that people politicize fundamental economics that have nothing to do with who is president. Amazing that Red Lobster and Walgreens get singled out as economic failures while those who do so turn a blind eye to the record-setting stock market, low unemployment and other positive economic indicators.

Truelly amzing!

[edjr 6,579]

24 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

It must be a bad economy and not competition from other various places(price clubs, online...). 

Businesses always close during a booming economy   

[edjr 6,579]

4 minutes ago, Death said:

Amazing that the Biden-Harris America gets blamed for closures attributed to people going online instead. Amazing that people politicize fundamental economics that have nothing to do with who is president. Amazing that Red Lobster and Walgreens get singled out as economic failures while those who do so turn a blind eye to the record-setting stock market, low unemployment and other positive economic indicators.

Truelly amzing!

People only started shopping online in 2020

[purdygood 343]

23 minutes ago, HotRod said:

For the past 20 years it seemed like a Walgreens and a CVS was going up on every corner of America.  Looks like that wasn't the smartest plan.

So much easier to buy this stuff online.

Seriously.  If i need toothpaste, why get in my car, drive to Walgreens, wait in line, deal with "the public" when I can just go click, click, click and it's on my porch tomorrow.

[squistion 2,096]

Just now, edjr said:

Businesses always close during a booming economy   

Not always. but it does happen if they can't stay competitive or make bad business decisions. 

[edjr 6,579]

Just now, squistion said:

Not always. but it does happen if they can't stay competitive or make bad business decisions. 

They opened in 1901, I am sure they had no idea how to run a business.

[thegeneral 3,095]

Just now, edjr said:

They opened in 1901, I am sure they had no idea how to run a business.

Target, WalMart, Amazon, CVS, among others drank their milkshake

[edjr 6,579]

2 minutes ago, purdygood said:

Seriously.  If i need toothpaste, why get in my car, drive to Walgreens, wait in line, deal with "the public" when I can just go click, click, click and it's on my porch tomorrow.

When your kid needs medicine or aspirin or anything of that nature. waiting till tomorrow is a solid plan.

[purdygood 343]

Just now, edjr said:

When your kid needs medicine or aspirin or anything of that nature. waiting till tomorrow is a solid plan.

Then they should rebrand as Pharmacy only.  The Target's around me have CVS and Walgreen's pharmacies in them as a subsection.  They don't need a whole store.

[supermike80 1,876]

42 minutes ago, Death said:

Amazing that not a single business closed or had layoffs under Trump.

https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/iconic-american-brands-go-through-mass-layoffs-and-bankruptcies-in-trump-recession/

LOL article date, October 22, 2020.  What a maroon

[Sean Mooney 1,964]

6 minutes ago, edjr said:

When your kid needs medicine or aspirin or anything of that nature. waiting till tomorrow is a solid plan.

Walmart has it..Target has it....usually cheaper than at Walgreens

[squistion 2,096]

8 minutes ago, edjr said:

They opened in 1901, I am sure they had no idea how to run a business.

F.W. Woolworth and Sears had been in business about that long too but Woolworth stores have been shuttered and Sears is down to 9 locations in the US.

Saw this on the Twitters, but have not verified the truth of the claims:

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Walgreens just wrote down 3 billion on a bad clinical investment and got lapped in its core px business...

 

 

[purdygood 343]

Just now, squistion said:

F.W. Wollworth and Sears had been in business about that long too but Wollworth stores have been shuttered and Sears is down to 9 locations in the US.

Saw this on the Twitters, but have not verified the truth of the claims:

 

 

Reminds me of O Brother Where Art Thou?  "And stay outta the Wollworth!"  I don't want FOP goddammit, I'm a Dapper Dan Man!

[Sean Mooney 1,964]

Just now, squistion said:

F.W. Wollworth and Sears had been in business about that long too but Wollworth stores have been shuttered and Sears is down to 9 locations in the US.

Saw this on the Twitters, but have not verified the truth of the claims:

 

 

Sears was pretty famously mismanaged too leading to its demise. It's a shame that people are so beholden to businesses anymore that a business declining has to be the politician's fault and not the fault of bad management. 

[purdygood 343]

Just now, Sean Mooney said:

Sears was pretty famously mismanaged too leading to its demise. It's a shame that people are so beholden to businesses anymore that a business declining has to be the politician's fault and not the fault of bad management. 

There is a certain % of the country who blame all their troubles "on someone else" and want to vote for a guy who "blames all his troubles on someone else".

It's a sickness.

[Death 301]

7 minutes ago, supermike80 said:

LOL article date, October 22, 2020.  What a maroon

Right, because Trump still was president at the time. I could post dozens of links regarding all the businesses that closed under Trump pre-COVID, and you'd still turn a blind eye to supply-and-demand economics and only focus on the negative aspects of today's economy because it makes you feel all warm and toasty inside.

Businesses rise and fall regardless of who is president, thanks to consumer trends and management.

Of course Subway locations were going to close due to overpopulation, the inability to find employees in this economy, the lingering effects of their greatest spokesman being a pedophile and crapass sandwiches. 

But go ahead and blame it all on a president!

 

[purdygood 343]

Just now, Death said:

Right, because Trump still was president at the time. I could post dozens of links regarding all the businesses that closed under Trump pre-COVID, and you'd still turn a blind eye to supply-and-demand economics and only focus on the negative aspects of today's economy because it makes you feel all warm and toasty inside.

Businesses rise and fall regardless of who is president, thanks to consumer trends and management.

Of course Subway locations were going to close due to overpopulation, the inability to find employees in this economy, the lingering effects of their greatest spokesman being a pedophile and crapass sandwiches. 

But go ahead and blame it all on a president!

 

One of the 8 Subways in my city closed down! Thanks Sleepy Joe!

[HotRod 70]

34 minutes ago, edjr said:

When your kid needs medicine or aspirin or anything of that nature. waiting till tomorrow is a solid plan.

Aspirin?  Who buys Aspirin?

I buy everything in bulk online so you don't need to run out for something very often.  Once or twice a year.

They are only good for prescriptions.

[Sean Mooney 1,964]

19 minutes ago, HotRod said:

Aspirin?  Who buys Aspirin?

I buy everything in bulk online so you don't need to run out for something very often.  Once or twice a year.

They are only good for prescriptions.

And again- Walmart has a pharmacy. Target has a pharmacy. Costco has a pharmacy. Wegmans does. Hell Giant does. I can go into Giant, give them my refill stuff, go grocery shopping, and grab my script on the way out. 

Long gone are the days of "Go to Walgreens, drive a half a mile down the road through traffic to go grocery shopping. Drive a half mile back and cut across traffic to grab my script." Americans want convenience and the system has given us that. Unfortunately a byproduct of that is some places becoming relics. 

[purdygood 343]

Just now, Sean Mooney said:

And again- Walmart has a pharmacy. Target has a pharmacy. Costco has a pharmacy. Wegmans does. Hell Giant does. I can go into Giant, give them my refill stuff, go grocery shopping, and grab my script on the way out. 

Long gone are the days of "Go to Walgreens, drive a half a mile down the road through traffic to go grocery shopping. Drive a half mile back and cut across traffic to grab my script. Americans want convenience and the system has given us that. Unfortunately a byproduct of that is some places becoming relics. 

I can grab an Aspirin, a 6 pack of beer, some beef jerky and some Pepto Bismo at the gas station a block from my house.   Why do I need a Walgreens?

[Sean Mooney 1,964]

2 minutes ago, purdygood said:

I can grab an Aspirin, a 6 pack of beer, some beef jerky and some Pepto Bismo at the gas station a block from my house.   Why do I need a Walgreens?

Exactly....and that gas station might at some point give way to the Walmart that will open another mile down the road which allows you to do all that as well without feeling like you might need to be hyper cognizant of your surroundings. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,210]

Where will Tim get his tampons now? 

[purdygood 343]

Just now, Sean Mooney said:

Exactly....and that gas station might at some point give way to the Walmart that will open another mile down the road which allows you to do all that as well without feeling like you might need to be hyper cognizant of your surroundings. 

I have Walmart a Mile down the road. I rarely go.  I'll pay a extra buck to go to the Target next door.   Walmart people (shudders).

[Sean Mooney 1,964]

2 minutes ago, purdygood said:

I have Walmart a Mile down the road. I rarely go.  I'll pay a extra buck to go to the Target next door.   Walmart people (shudders).

Target could've been used in my example as well. 

From my house- Walmart is a 5 minute drive. Target is a ~12 minute drive....I'll take the 5 minute drive even if Target is a nicer store in general. 

[purdygood 343]

Just now, Sean Mooney said:

Target could've been used in my example as well. 

From my house- Walmart is a 5 minute drive. Target is a ~12 minute drive....I'll take the 5 minute drive even if Target is a nicer store in general. 

Fair enough. The Walmart near me is Gross.  The Target is at least clean. But every store will vary.

[TimHauck 2,712]

1 hour ago, edjr said:

Businesses always close during a booming economy   

Walgreens themselves closed 200 stores in 2019, after also buying Rite Aid and closing 750 of their stores

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/walgreens-to-close-200-stores-in-us.html

[Mike Honcho 5,250]

1 hour ago, thegeneral said:

Target, WalMart, Amazon, CVS, among others drank their milkshake