CVS says it will close NINE HUNDRED stores by the end of 2024 - 10% of all its shops - as it moves t

[mystery-ak]

CVS says it will close NINE HUNDRED stores by the end of 2024 - 10% of all its shops - as it moves to online strategy amid rampant increase in shoplifting

    CVS is making drastic reforms to adjust to the needs of modern online shoppers
    Rival Walgreens also plans to shut 150 stores as part of a modernization drive
    READ MORE: CVS store manager is shot and killed by customer accused of shoplifting

By James Reynolds

Published: 04:30 EDT, 26 September 2023 | Updated: 10:47 EDT, 26 September 2023

CVS is set to close hundreds of stores across the country as it undergoes a complete retail overhaul – as more outlets move towards online sellers amid rampant increases in crime.

The major drugstore chain is coming to the end of a policy launched in 2021 which will see 300 stores closed each year - meaning 900 will have shuttered by 2024.

In the announcement, which has hit headlines again recently amid rampant shoplifting at the chain, bosses they said that they were undergoing a new 'retail footprint strategy.'

CVS and other retailers across the US continue to adjust to post-pandemic footfall, with COVID helping turbocharge the popularity of online shopping.

More shoppers are turning to buying online in the wake of the pandemic, as well as rocketing levels of shoplifting affecting sales in stores.

CVS claims that 'local market dynamics, population shifts, and a community's store density' are some of the aspects it has looked into when deciding which stores to shutter.

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[mystery-ak]

First Rite Aide now CVS

[DefiantMassRINO]

"Community activists" will decry the abandonment of poor communities and communities of color.

[Wingnut]

Drug stores are like Dollar Generals.  One every 1/2 mile. 

[the OlLine Rebel]

First Rite Aide now CVS

Actually RiteAid was purchased by Walgreen's.  And some of them are still Rite Aid!  (But with new green-based logo instead of red-blue.)

I have a comment on this.  We found out CVS was either losing/unable to get pharmacists or just cutting back (I forget - my hubby follows more).  He has had lots of trouble, and so have I when I use them, getting Rx filled on time.  Heck, last Saturday I had emergency anti-biotics to get, had to go to CVS being weekend, and knowing about this I went with hubby to shop for furniture while we "waited".  2 hours later, almost birthday dinner time, they had not filled it!  So I had to wait more anyway, and made it very hard getting his special meal done!

The other thing hubby hated was the constant, incessant AutoRefills from CVS.  They Robocall saying they're refilling it, constantly, and he'd say no.  He wanted out of Auto, but they'd just keep trying to do it.

I prefer my little local pharmacists.  Right now I have a really little guy (1 - won't hire any help) and when he's open I can get almost all my stuff fast and when I want it, and no pestering about refilling (I have many chronic meds).  Grew up with a local which finally closed in 2013 (51 years - all of my life we'd gone there).  Much better than masses of people at the big chains.

[the OlLine Rebel]

"Community activists" will decry the abandonment of poor communities and communities of color.

Partly driven out of business by those poor deprived rioters.

[the OlLine Rebel]

The other thing to remark is that CVS bought into Target clinics - so they expanded to the various Targets.  Too quick expansion?

[LMAO]

As bad as things are getting in the inner cities, don’t expect a change in any voting patterns.

I think we need to have a conversation, not only about race, but of culture and what kind of culture the inner city black race seems to tenaciously embrace

The only thing that’s going to turn around these inner cities is a change in the culture

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

If CVS closes, where will the O.G.'s steal diapers and baby formula from?

[GtHawk]

As bad as things are getting in the inner cities, don’t expect a change in any voting patterns.

I think we need to have a conversation, not only about race, but of culture and what kind of culture the inner city black race seems to tenaciously embrace

The only thing that’s going to turn around these inner cities is a change in the culture

The democrats will promise to force these chains and other stores to remain open so that Blacks can continue steal them blind, just gettin their reprashuns ya know.

[mountaineer]

Also Target, but I don't care.

Target to close 9 stores — including NYC location — citing ‘theft’ and employee ‘safety’
By Lisa Fickenscher   
Published Sep. 26, 2023, 3:50 p.m. ET

Story at NY Post

[bigheadfred]

Also Target, but I don't care.

Target to close 9 stores — including NYC location — citing ‘theft’ and employee ‘safety’
By Lisa Fickenscher   
Published Sep. 26, 2023, 3:50 p.m. ET

Story at NY Post

I don't know if that will help stop the crime. They'll just find another target.

[libertybele]

As bad as things are getting in the inner cities, don’t expect a change in any voting patterns.

I think we need to have a conversation, not only about race, but of culture and what kind of culture the inner city black race seems to tenaciously embrace

The only thing that’s going to turn around these inner cities is a change in the culture

??? Perhaps I am misunderstanding, so you are expecting the Black population that are here LEGALLY and have been here for many decades to change their culture???

What is going to make the inner cities worse are the ILLEGALS coming in and then I'm afraid that we are going to have a race war on our hands.  Just my opinion.

[libertybele]

So where are people who live in the inner cities going to shop??  They'll come into the suburbs and once stores are closed in the suburbs they will venture into the country and into the Mom & Pop stores.

[Fishrrman]

GTHawk predicts:
"The democrats will promise to force these chains and other stores to remain open so that Blacks can continue steal them blind, just gettin their reprashuns ya know"

Directive 10-289.
(from a book I read a while back...)

[Gefn]

 

[catfish1957]

On-line prescription meds like Express Scripts have whacked a chunk of the profitability of Rite Aid, CVS, and Walgreen.  Personally, I like going to the drug store, to make sure there hasn't been a mistake in disepensing my meds.  Seems it would be a hassle to deal with it on-line.  But that's just this old geezer.

I think one, and maybe 2 of these survive, but they are going to need some innovative ways to lure customers away from their keyboards. 

[libertybele]

On-line prescription meds like Express Scripts have whacked a chunk of the profitability of Rite Aid, CVS, and Walgreen.  Personally, I like going to the drug store, to make sure there hasn't been a mistake in disepensing my meds.  Seems it would be a hassle to deal with it on-line.  But that's just this old geezer.

I think one, and maybe 2 of these survive, but they are going to need some innovative ways to lure customers away from their keyboards.

Walgreen's has gone down hill.  I switched locations because the Walgreen's pharmacy that we were going to would just close for the day.  There have been many, many times when we've received phone calls telling us that are prescription is ready only to go to the store to find out it hadn't been processed.  Walgreen's is pretty bad around here.  They offered on-line service, but if they can't get it right at the store, what recourse do we have if the on-line delivery is incorrect?  OR the store decides to close for the day and we're stuck with the incorrect med till they open.

[DB]

Amazon has an online pharmacy now...

[GtHawk]

GTHawk predicts:
"The democrats will promise to force these chains and other stores to remain open so that Blacks can continue steal them blind, just gettin their reprashuns ya know"

Directive 10-289.
(from a book I read a while back...)

https://www.conservapedia.com/Directive_10-289

[libertybele]

Amazon has an online pharmacy now...

Joy and Lord only knows where the meds are being manufactured and if there is some sort of quality control.

[mountaineer]

I'm trying to avoid online purchasing. We've had no problems with the Walgreen's in our town. Thankfully, we don't have a lot of prescriptions.

[Free Vulcan]

As bad as things are getting in the inner cities, don’t expect a change in any voting patterns.

I think we need to have a conversation, not only about race, but of culture and what kind of culture the inner city black race seems to tenaciously embrace

The only thing that’s going to turn around these inner cities is a change in the culture

That's right. People keep voting for it, at often an 80%+ rate. Until something changes, what  can be done?

[berdie]

I just read an article that there is a shortage of pharmacists as well (much like the rest of the medical profession). That could be a contributing factor.