Pharmacist explains driving forces behind Walgreens closures
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- It's been a very tough year for pharmacies. Today, Walgreens announced it's closing 1,200 stores across the country over the next three years. The locations are yet to be determined.
Amazing how they saturated the market and pushed out the smaller independent pharmacies. Now look, they're closing.
Large corporations tell their employees were to get their prescriptions. Politicians allow shoplifters to go unpunished.
Good
The gig of selling huge amounts of opioids is over.
@@JK-yf2vl Yep. Now you'll have to buy the ones made in China that come across the southern border.
It's a story as old as time.
People finally figured out that the $8 bottle of cough syrup at Walgreens is only $4 at WalMart.
Or $3 on Amazon.
@@11C1P Yeah, but that $3 bottle from Amazon could have been looted from Walgreens.
@@11C1P$3 on Amazon if you want it lost somewhere in the mail for a week or two...
@@theotheleo6830 Why would thieves sell the bottle at a lesser price?
@@scaboi By undercutting the competition they can make a quick buck and move all that stolen merchandise out of the way to make room for more. After all, it's free money to them.
Walgreens was charging me 80.00 a month for my rx. I switched to Sams club and they charge 10.00 a month. I haven't stepped in a Walgreens in over four yrs now and don't miss it one bit!!! 😊
Wow, what a difference.
Yeah, Just wait till theres no competition and Sams ends up charging even more...
Plus membership @@FigsForYou
That’s the reason why Sam’s and Walmart are putting every other stores out of business
Yep. Sams Club and Costco. No membership needed for pharmacy
I’m a 20 year employee and I can tell you bad decision making is what killed this company. The goal to open stores on every major corner, losing Express Scripts, failed “minute clinics”, and money wasted on CCR. Now people come to Walgreens get all the training and go elsewhere…….Now they have us pushing credit cards on people
I saw this summed up best by a Wall Street retail analyst, and it was one simple sentence. He said, "Walgreens can spin all the BS they want, but the bottom line is that they absolutely suck at retail, period" Why they think that running a store with the level of pricing you pay inside an airport or arena, is a lasting strategy is beyond me? I was in a beach town a while back and had a short list of items, like paper towels and suntan lotion, to pick up. I went to Walgreens, found the items and LOLed my way to the door. I went two blocks away to Walmart and purchased the same basket of products for SIXTY PERCENT LESS. Yea, the expert is right, they deserve to fail.
Agreed, I'm a 30 year employee finally retired. Left at a good time. How much money did they waste remolding all stores to put the pharmacist out front? Only to reverse it.
@@kathysavage2548yeah and I'm wondering how much money they wasted paying you over all the years and you didn't do your job like all Walgreens employees. You should be glad you made all that free money for doing nothing.
Your comment was more informative than the video.
@@chriskroll4166 You have no idea the work I did. Sit behind your keyboard and type things you have no clue about. What has been your job for 30 years?
Insurance companies are a big part of the problem? I'm shocked!
Tie that to the greedy pharmaceital companies as well. All that corporate greed is beginning to trickle down to the consumers. Capitalism is great for a select few until it isn't.
@@soulbrothanumbahonewhat do you suggest would be better? Socialism/communism? I do agree that pharmaceutical companies are greedy but capitalism is the only way
@@carolynw8614universal healthcare for all! Wake up.
@@primitivedaisy that would make the medical practitioners de facto government employees. Medicare reimbursement rates are not enough to cover their costs now. What do you think will happen when many practitioners close their doors and much less people go into the medical field?
@@primitivedaisy What does that have to do with the price of bananas? An overcrowded marketplace causes an oligarchy to have to trim down the number of stores and your answer is standing on line at government operated dispenseries? Get a job!
Our Walgreens pharmacist always seems overworked and understaffed. I went for a scheduled flu shot and the poor guy was on the phone begging people to come in on their day off. He was all alone filling prescriptions, working the counter & drive-up, and doing vaccines.
Absolutely! My husband worked in the pharmacy for a year. He said it was the most stressful job…
well u also have the audacity of people using the drive up asking if the pharmacy can grab a coke also with their prescription.. been told ridiculous stories by CVS pharmacists..
Thanks,well unfortunately, kind of problematical in Community: NOT a good place to Practice (*harder, faster, quicker, cheaper RX, vaccines, scripts, just for the least Drugstores…..).. What happens most Pharmacists attracted to NOn- Profit, Bureacracies , GOVERNMENT PHARMACY, ,ACADEMIA, RESEARCHERS, related Science/Health Callings; as 100’s of people daily clamoring for Rx, Meds,Sudafed’s,ad infinitum & no : Office, Titles, Students, appalling legal environments , etc. AND, appears “ no, or Little “Prestige/ Status in Community & Retail Practices-- compared to titled,Large Campus, Fortune 100. ..(39 years Practice here, etc., with a ten year Sabbatical, I did make it to Retirement, sort of)……..
I was a Walgreens customer for years. Then they started "under-staffing". Twice, 2 weeks in a row, I made appointments for vaccinations, arrived on time and was told "sorry, no pharmacist here today", then they closed the drive through, ( one of the reasons I had chosen that pharmacy in the first place). The last straw was when I twice received text massages saying my meds. Were ready for pick up, only to find out they were in fact not ready and would not be until the following day. I now use the Safeway pharmacy and have had none of the problems noted above in the last 3 years. I should add that I really liked and appreciated the pharmacist at Walgreens. Too bad management did not provide her the staff she needed!
The USA has desperate issue with big pharmaceutical companies! Medications costing thousands of dollars a month is ridiculous. In Mexico people pay $2 for what cost us $100s. Politicians are owned by the Rx .
So true
Yes but you don’t need any of that bs shit You been lied too Money grab
As a community pharmacy owner for over 30 years I can unequivocally say that the third parties controlling pharmacy reimbursement are the major factor in these store closings. Pharmacies are forced to lose money filling a prescription or lose a patient. Not a good choice!
Mark Cuban's cost plus pharmacy company is attempting to break the back of these crime rings known as "Pharmacy Benefit Managers". He has multiple interviews on the problem that can be found here, on RUclips.
It’s quite simple. All the opioid money dried up.
I didn't think of that factor. You're probably right. It was probably about half of their business. Now the fent dealers get the money.
@@tyarnold4088 Yea, exactly. they cut out the Pharmacy middle man.
@@16-BITFPV What's a clown show is thinking that Opioids isn't a factor at all.
@@The_General_ZubasJust referring to that stupid comment about fentanyl. I don't know why I even read this crap my brain hurts now. People hear a buzz word and regurgitate it like a parrot.
@@The_General_Zubas they killed half their customers off too.
my insurance forces me to go with optum rx or they wont pay for my prescriptions after the 3rd refill. That should be illegal and we ought to be able to choose where we have our scripts filled
That's correct.
This is what is killing the pharmacies, my insurance company has done the same.
@@dnezarmichael same here
I agree, the American healthcare system is designed to make money, not to help people get better after being sick
you can. you call them, and request that they continue to fill your maintenance meds at a retail level. they will put in an override on the insurance side, it will have to be done for each maintenance med and if you don't have enough refills to meet the 90 days requirement a lot of them will have then you will have to get new rx's from the doctor. **but that doesn't mean they won't charge you MORE to get it filled at retail level** pbms are really starting to push mail order so they can control their own costs/profits. source: i'm a CPhT with a large retail chain and we see this all the time.
Here in Homestead, FL, the Walgreens pharmacy has 2-3 people working, shelves packed with premade meds and nobody picking them up. Old computers, old stores, nothing updated, 1-2 people on the general floor, people waiting for help and nobody shows up. It's not the employees fault, it's REALLY POOR MANAGEMENT problem that nobody seems to have noticed over the years. I prefer Walgreens over CVS 10x over so fix it!!!
Not mentioned in this piece was that more and more of the big health insurance companies are pushing their own mail order pharmacies which will deliver to their customers homes for free. When the Walgreens drive-thru pharmacy pick-up window has a long line of cars and you wait 20 minutes or more to get to the window to pick up your prescription(s), you get tempted to go to mail-order prescriptions.
I quit going to my local Walgreens because their service sucks. They'd call me to tell me that my prescription is ready and when I'd to go pick it up they'd tell me, "It'll be ready in about 15 minutes, go sit over there." I didn't say anything the first couple of times but on the 3rd time, I was like, "Why did you call me if it's not actually ready?" I haven't gone back to them since, I'm not putting up with that crap.
I use Walgreens mail delivery. I never have to go in anymore.
That’s what I do. It arrives in a couple days. I have no tradition or loyalty to Walgreens. Never had.
I started using Costco. The service is much better and I know the employees won’t make any mistakes because they’re not being overworked.
When pharmacies can't get the medications that people need, it's also not going to help their bottom line.
yes, so many meds from China and now moving that to Vietnam which has worse quality control.
Plus many people who are using my diabetic medication for weight loss only along with the Medicare “donut hole”. My Endochronologist is helping me get through the end of 2024 till Medicare gets me back to a reasonable and hopefully always obtainable medication! Medicare resets at the beginning of every year for those who do not know! My medication will go back to $11/month in January till the donut hole hits again and I’ll be paying around -$260/month for the same medication!!!
186 stores closed from people stealing
I agree, along with the opioid money, tying up, people find it easier to steal now than ever, combined with higher inflation and lower wages, NDA who will just let them out and give them a free pass.
Corporate needs more private jets...
@@GeminieCricket that’s just a part of it.
@@TheCloudpiercer You keep posting that BS but it is 100% commie loving democrats voting for Soros funded DAs who allow up to $900 thefts/person/day to suck the life blood out of business. You obviously have never signed the front of a pay check nor knows why that is important.
Shoplifting is a problem but it’s not the driving force behind closings. How many pharmacies and Dollar Stores can a small town support? I use a locally owned pharmacy where the pharmacist is compassionate and knows my medical history. It has very few over the counter meds and no shelves of hair and makeup products or groceries.
Not to mention the powers to be feel it's ok for a shoplifter to come in and steal what ever they want as long as it's under $1,000.00
Not to mention the price-gouging by Walgreen's and investing in too many stores from the get-go. They can no longer compete with other big box and online pharmacies.
California is changing the law about that $1,000 minimum
Shoplifting has consequences!!!!!
@@TheCloudpiercer You are dead wrong! The $900 ceiling on theft before some Soros funded democrat DA gets off their commie loving butt and puts these vermin in jail where they belong is 100% responsible. Lazy minded leftist think you can keep stealing from businesses without it ever impacting them is absurd. Insurance goes up for such businesses and like every other expense that cost either goes directly to the customer or the business is out of business.
You want to believe that so badly. 😂
The election has been stolen………Find me 12000 votes.
🤣 too bad the general American public is weak
@@TheCloudpiercer You couldn't be more wrong.
Stealing that pregnancy test prob not the worst thing she's gonna do with that kid
if they cant afford a pregnancy test, they cant afford the child.
Just hope and pray that she's not pregnant. And that the Lord would press down upon her
All those people losing their jobs while the CEO will get a big bonus.
@@PlumCrazyShaker would’ve been bigger if they weren’t struggling 😂
To think that in America, the real America, doctors used to make house calls and most people left their doors unlocked.
Massive thefts will close any business.
Massive shoplifting has consequences.
@@TheCloudpiercer sure. Shoplifting is wrong too. Both can be wrong. The stores aren’t closing because the CEO isn’t paying employees well.
The local district attorney
won't try to prosecute any
shoplifters, and the closest
store here has had to put
about half the store merchandise behind locked
cabinets.
They've removed all the
ready-to-eat deli items because people grab a
sandwich or a rotisserie
chicken and walk around the
store " shopping " while they
eat. They also open packages
and "sample " items and
put the rest of the opened
package back on the shelf.
If you're honestly shopping
you have to remember to
carefully check anything that
you put in your cart to make
sure it hasn't been opened
or the lid still has the seal
in place. I've picked up things
myself and had to return
them to the store after I got
it back home and saw it had
been opened. I forgot to check
and it bit me
A lack of education also has consequences…look at you
Wrong
It seems right wing propagandist have convinced people that crime is out of control. It should be a crime to intentionally lie on the news.
same with Auto Parts Stores, their prices are way out of reach, got a price on a fuel pump Auto Zone $386 with tax, Amazon sold it to me for $63 delivered to my house!
😂
That auto zone might be an oem part wheres the Amazon is prably some cheap aftermarket one
@@VB-zx1yk it's OEM
@@VB-zx1ykyep don’t mess around with aftermarket fuel pumps , way too much work involved dropping tank etc to replace ..you buy a cheap part and it will fail after it’s reinstalled… this guy will definitely be pulling that tank again…. Certain things you can’t be cheap on…
Auto zone wanted 330 for a starter for my Honda accord. Found it for $57 on ebay motors.
Closed the ones in towns that tolerate retail theft.
idiot
The thief is out of control
The uneducated are out of control …like not knowing when to use the word thief vs the word theft
You must watch and read right wing propagandist.
@@Randy58-zn4ez it is NOT "propaganda" you M O R O N ... i live near the beach .... multi-million dollars homes ... yet the Walmart Neighborhood market close to the beach is locking up ... aspirin and toothpaste!!! ... SHOPLIFTING without prosecution from D E M O C RAT S!
@@TheCloudpiercerAmerica's theft London, Great Britain etc!
I'm sure it has nothing to do with allowing +hugs to shoplift/loot the stores 24/7.
Then the "community leaders" in dark glasses show up to whine about how grandmas can't get their prescriptions and mamas can't get diapers and formula. Maybe whine at the fugitive baby daddies?
Perhaps parents should stop raising thieves.
no father in the home. collapse of the family unit.
My wife went to Walgreens for her regular monthly refill, and they said, "we don't have any right now, but you can go to the Walgreens 18 miles away," we called Walmart. This is essential heart meds. They said, "Hey, come on over. We'll take care of ya", never looked back. Walgreens is a boring old folks store that sells maple candies, spice drops and envelopes.
Preach
In Chicago they're prices are not competitive. For example, I went to buy a product and it was $3 higher than target. Also, our local Walgreens gets a lot of theft. The store doesn't have guards.
Wow! This is terrible! In the mid 70's I was attending Mass College of Pharmacy with the hope of having my own pharmacy in a rural area; however, the pharmacy business changed dramatically. I was working as a pharmacy intern in an independent pharmacy. The chain pharmacies stated to dominate the market and forcing the closures of independent pharmacies by overing prescriptions at a substantially lowered price. Also, the chain pharmacies introduced the pharmacy technicians, thus lowering the need for registered pharmacists. Now, the pharmacy chains are closing down. This is ridiculous! The government needs to regulate the number of pharmacies to the local population. Drug availability needs to be paramount over profits. I saw the running on the wall in the mid-70s and left pharmacy college to attend business school. It's very sad for young pharmacists who invested 6 years of college and hundreds of thousands of dollars to have little or no opportunities in retail pharmacy.
This is what happens when you have a corrupt court and Congress. You get Citizens United and Billionaires and mega corporations buying off government through election contributions. Thus insurance companies can charge what they want and literally tell people where to go. Essentially do as they please.
I wonder how many will be closing in neighborhoods where the "customers" think it's OK to walk in with garbage bags, fill them and walk out?
Big chains opened too many but they also pay the top 10 positions way too much. Cut the ceo pay and save money. Those that make the bad decisions never seemed to be held accountable and those in the store working hard following the decisions of the leaders are the ones that suffer. Really sad.
@@toddportice4997 that’s not nearly enough lol they’ve lost billions compared to Amazon and Walmart lol
It's the insurance companies taking us all to the cleaners.
Yup, gotta have insurance but it’s not cheap to have, but when you actually have to use it they don’t always wanna pay for what you need, or not pay for much of it.
Early 2000s had on each corner...CVS, WALGREENS AND RITEAID. I knew as a teen that wasnt a good business model. I was right now every corner has 3 abandoned buildings...now its going up to 4
They way my local Walgreens manages the pharmacy, I'm not surprised. Giving wrong prescriptions, closing the drive thru randomly in your face, getting a text prescriptions are ready and the next day being told a 2 hour wait....i left cvs for a life threatening mistake.
The texts are sent automatically from the system “assuming” it’s ready, the staff have no way to send the messages as they don’t type or send them. It’s all automatic when the system assumes it’s ready. That’s what staff at my local store said when questioned about it. None of the staff physical type or send those messages or automated calls.
It’s been a tough year for pharmacies in the inner cities would be more accurately stating the issue.
The reason I do not go to Walgreen's is because they have one price on the shelf, then at the register they charge a much higher price. The way to get the price on the shelf is to sign up for their marketing program. I refuse to do that and absolutely will not pay a much higher price than they advertise on the shelf. CVS does the same thing. I can buy any of the products Walgreen's and CVS sell at other stores and never give any money to those two chains.
GREED GREED GREED that's all this country is about now How much can we get from the people
Corporate needs more private jets...
but your politicians care about you, right?
people vote for FREE!!! they are thieves too
They have always been like that, you are just now figuring it out.
Yawn
To Walgreens executives... Many years ago I celebrated a new store in my neighborhood. But then, I stopped going to Walgreen stores when the company began to follow a misguided multiple pricing scheme (I do not even know what the shelf labels said or showed now) which had multiple prices on the shelf label, flyers which showed a lower price than was available to a customer, and I could not figure it out what the actual price was going to be. I was not going to carry another card in my wallet to become a "member" (or whatever they called the card holders). Multiple times I would walk out of the store without a single item because of the confusing shelf labelling and pricing scheme. Then, finally, I not longer even considered going in a store at all even though they were only 1 mile from my house.
Amazing what happens when crime is no longer prosecuted.
Crime has been down sharply in the last three years. You must watch Fox News.
A people coming in ripping off 10 times a day because crime is being made risk-free is the major factor where I live...
My daughter lives in NC, at one intersection there is a Ritaide , Walgreens and CVS on each corner.
You expect me to believe there are TWELVE pharmacies at every intersection?
@@Antney946 ok 👌
Same here in MS minus the rite aid but the are across from each other. We have 2 walgreens less than a 3 mile radius from each other.
Very common where I live also. But then other places have none. It’s crazy
@@Schnauzerpatrol they did the same thing with Starbucks here,,, too many, they ended up closing 1/2
And how big of a bonus is the CEO going to get? How much of a dividend will stockholders get? It's not the economy, it's the corporate greed.
I think it has to do with all the warehouse orders. At my local Walgreens they seem to order all the scripts from a warehouse. So when my doctor calls me in a new script, they can’t fill it right away. Sometimes I have to wait days before it’s filled. The last time it happened, the doctor called me in three new scripts and they had to order all three. Since it was medication I needed right away I called around to numerous pharmacies to see if they had the medications in stock. Once I found a pharmacy that did, I had Walgreens transfer all three scripts to that pharmacy. Getting Walgreens to transfer the scripts was no easy feat either.
...that's because the pharmacy that has the medication you need should be the one initiating the transfer of the prescriptions.
My Walgreen's Pharmacy kept randomly closing, unannounced... for days. Apparently they keep minimal staff and if someone gets sick, there's no one to open the pharmacy. This happened three times (I live a few blocks from them, so convenient) before I finally fired them.
I had a friend who recently waited 3 weeks for a CVS script because every time he went to pick it up during posted hours, they were just... closed. No reason.
Prescriptions are important, sometimes critical to life.
They make money not from prescriptions, but from the other overpriced items BUT retail theft must be mentioned. Its huge.
All by design. Our lives as citizens is being devalued in front of our eyes. Are children are screwed
In suburban Chicago you can’t turn around without seeing another Walgreens. Over saturated.
Part of their problem is horrible customer service and understaffing. I work in another town. The pharmacy at my local Walgreens closes at 6 pm. As a general rule I have to pick up my prescriptions on Saturdays because I can’t make it to the store during the week to pick up my meds. I went one Saturday to pick up my prescription and the pharmacy was closed because there was no pharmacist on duty. When I was finally able to get to the store the following week they had already put my medication back on the shelf. That was the last straw.
Ours had women standing around everywhere... doing nothing but screwing up customer service. Switched to a mom and pop local. Never happier.
I understand what you are saying. We went on a 2 week vacation to a small beach town in FL. My husband forgot his medicine at home. I called my pharmacy at home to transfer his prescriptions. They said to tell the pharmacy in Port St. Joe to request the transfer. I went to the pharmacy on Monday. We finally got his medication on Friday. It was CVS. They only had 1 pharmacist and tech working. The pharmacy only opens 11:00 to 2:00 daily. It took 2 days for the pharmacist to request the transfer and 2 days to fill. I will NEVER go to CVS again. The CVS pharmacy close to my own house is that way. They are the worst. No wonder they are closing stores. No customer service. If you are retail, you survive by your customer service.
Theft is getting worse.
Walmart is also almost always cheaper. People rather go there and complain about the service than pay higher prices. I get it. The cost difference can be pretty big. When I didn't have insurance last year, I shopped around for one or my prescriptions. $600 at CVS, $400 at Walgreens, $40 at Walmart. What do you think I chose? I actually refuse to even try the local mom and pop ones here because the few that we have, they're also part of very ghetto convenience stores that I feel like I'm going to get shot just by driving by. Crack addicts and gangbangers hang out around them. It's Florida after all.
so do I. Walmart for life
Where you shopping name brands and getting generic at Walmart??
@@howardj602Only the name brand existed for this prescription back then.
Then it might have been counterfeit. The brand name drugs distribution are price fixed.
@@howardj602Nope.
I disagree. I think it was their building boom a few years ago. I watched them building a store every mile down the two busiest streets in town, 10 new shops.
A few years ago? More like twenty years ago. Back then, Walgreens was building so fast it was making national news.
Yeah, all that opioid money
In my state, most Walgreens and CVS are on long term lease. Unless they go bankrupt they are obligated to pay their rent , open or not.
I totally agree with you. Yes where I live there is a Walgreens on every corner. The we have CVS on the opposite side of the street. I go to Target.
@@The_General_Zubasopioid money hasn’t gone anywhere!
I don’t buy things from pharmacies because of the mark up in prices. Their merchandise is set at Alaska prices.
Never recovered from that elizabeth holmes bs.
So it has nothing to do with rampant theft, which causes stores to lock everything up, making paying customers choose other chains to shop at.
What difference does it make? The average person can't afford prescriptions anyway.
Support independent pharmacies!! I left Walking Greens years ago.
Can we get a poll going on who the pregnant thief was?
I used to manage a Walgreens and about 10 years ago they merged with a European company and tried to use that model in America..We all told them it was disaster but here we are..I left years ago and it was the best decision of my life
When your government makes stealing legal, that changes the equation for criminals to profit and the retailers to lose money. Each voting opportunity is an opportunity for change. Yes we can.
That is not the driving force here. It's called competition and Walgreen's can no longer compete with big box and online pharmacies. (Mark Cuban's pricing is blowing them all out of the water.) Walgreen's has always been way over-priced and they overbuilt.
Massive shoplifting is another reason!! The people who shoplifted and robbed their stores blind, are the very same people complaining that the stores in their area are closing down!!
PBM companies. Patients being forced into mail pharmacies owned by ins companies.
I will never be pushed into using mail order - one of my prescriptions requires it to be refrigerated until use - then OK at room temp! Who knows how long it would sit in some PO location without refrigeration!
The tough part is the combination of filling Rx and convenience store. If either is not making enough money then the store is not profitable. My Walgreens pharmacy is doing well but barely anyone buy their convenience store products. This will open the door for pharmacy only stores.
That model works for gas stations, not pharmacies.
You have a DEI CEO. Saw this coming as soon as that person with limited qualifications was put in place. I do business with Walgreens only because they ran all the good independent pharmacy shops out of town. Sad situation for the consumer.
Blacks are hardworking, humble and law abiding. We are lucky to be enriched by the vibrant diversity they provide us.
I have always found that a locally owned pharmacy has better prices and the same staff that treats people as individuals. Walmart, Sams, Costco pharmacies also compete heavily with CVS and Walgreens everywhere.
I changed to a local pharmacy and see the same people every single time I need to go in - and this pharmacy also does does compounds which some people need - big names will never do this!
@@sandybruce9092 Big name pharma will get your prescriptions wrong more often too, I have caught them 3 or more times, wrong dosage, wrong mg, wrong prescription.
@@MichaelTheophilus906 That is a shame. Walmart, Sams and Costco will be cheaper than CVS or Walgreens. Also, I have had wrong medication, wrong mg. and miscounted meds at Walgreens in the past. Always open bottle, count pills and check mg. while in the store, that can send you to the hospital.
No wonder they are finally closinh
Prices are two or thtee times higher on merchandise. Wont pay those prices
Make no mistake about it; THIS IS AGENDA driven.
what the hell does that mean ?
Large sums of money never move by a accident, only by design.
Correct.
@@batsonelectronics U N control of everything.
At the nearest commercial street corner to me, you have a Walgreens on one corner, a CVS across the street, and a grocery store pharmacy on the other side of the street. That's 3 corners of the intersection. Oh, and about 1/4 mile down the street is Rite Aid. And 200 yards past that is another grocery store pharmacy.
When criminals can "freely" steal $996.00 of merchandise from your business, your business is OVER!
Nonsense. It's called competition and Walgreen's can no longer compete with big box and online pharmacies. (Mark Cuban's pricing is blowing them all out of the water.) Walgreen's has always been way over-priced and they overbuilt.
It’s not the shoplifting, it’s the dirty stores, shitty employees and super high prices.
@@Me97202 That too! But business' in general are suffering because of that law
Maybe Walgreen’s, etc, should just have a pharmacy and forget about trying to be everything else that most of us can buy cheaper at Target, Walmart, etc.!
And those that are not closing are going non 24 hour. The ceo is what is driving the company into the ground. Years ago walgreens used to be family owned. They pushed out the last remaining son and run for profits and this is the result. It's over 😢
I have noticed the employees at my regular Walgreens have become a lot more helpful, and friendly. I have a cousin who is a pharmacist at a Walgreens in New Orleans.
Walgreens is waaaayyyyy overpriced
Getting meds and Walgreens is like mailing a package at USPS. There is always an elderly person at that counter who is trying to fill out mortgage papers
Oversaturation 1:34 of pharmacies 1:45 and insurance companies steering where patients can fill their prescriptions!
I see the state of US politics, it shares me when people say federal government needs to address this. Alll we need is politicians having more power over us.
Correct. we need much less government.
I switched to mail order pharmacy through my insurance company. My medications are on auto refill and I don’t have to make a drive to the pharmacy. It’s more convenient.
I used to shop at Wal-Greens weekly however, there prices are just too high to me. They still have decent weekly sales, but their everyday prices are excessive. I do get my prescriptions filled there, and they usually have a good sale on vitamins (buy one get one free) and I buy almonds there, but for the most part it's too expensive. I live in N.W. Indiana and there's at least 1 in each town near where I live, but they never seem to be that busy on the rare occasion that I go. For a recent holiday, I think I paid over $40 for (4) twelve packs of soda.
The Walgreens where I live was the worst drug store in town. I couldn't get my medicine on time ever. 2 weeks late and sometimes not at all. They deserve to go under.
I support my local independent pharmacy and grocery store. 🇺🇸
Bottom line, cheaper elsewhere.
I haven’t been in a Walgreens in years. I don’t mind them closing.
Many usual suspects keeps stealing. These people are not so bright upstairs.
It’s not that. It’s over saturation, pharmacy issues and what someone pointed out opioid market is no longer profitable for them.
ONE nation wide competitor to Walgreens. If they can’t stay open that’s management’s fault.
walgreens built to many stores in the last 20 years.
Exactly, this has all been planned.
too. Not to. Not two. Sheesh
@@GeminieCricket you should go to school and be a english teacher. since i haven't been to school in 60 years i'll just claim i am old and senile. so you are picking on an old senile person. you should be ashamed of yourself.
@@GeminieCricket D o r k
I quit getting my prescriptions filled at Walgreen's because their prices were too high and when I use GoodRx I can get a much better deal elsewhere. I do prefer Walgreen's over CVS for other things and they are close to my house. I hate to hear about people stealing and businesses will eventually go under if the theft isn't stopped.
They're just your local drug dealers.
I think we all know actually why pharmacies and stores are closing.
Country destroying democrats.
My mom gets all of her prescriptions at Walgreens. And we live in a relatively safe area, so there’s not any petty theft here. I hope our stores stay open.
There is no such thing as a "safe area."
@@allykatt1849 Sounds like you don't travel much then. 99% of the USA is safe, but that 1% is the urban cities and they are full of problems, homeless ugly graffiti, kids with scumbag parents destroying the city, liberal city leaders that don't punish criminal youth or gangs, they defund police and stop going after theft under some $ sum like $200 or whatever (depending on state/city) these places are just poorly run following ideology instead of serving the population that pays taxes. So people will simply move out the moment they can and run for the suburbs that are clean, free of ugly graffiti and safe day or night. Its very stupid becasue we as Humans need to live in society, in cities where people can walk places instead of always driving but the moment you visit any US city its back to crappy ideology again, homeless, graffiti, criminals running around, trash, so we really can't have urban well run cities in America it seems. Liberal Ideology simply makes the cities unlivable.
If you know three years ahead that your stores are going to close, you have plenty of time to fix the reasons they're not (as profitable as you'd like them to be). You don't want them to stay open.
Airport pricing,poor service,theranos...
The store in Cleburne Texas has horrible customer service. The stores are overloaded with retail merchandise but the pharmacy has 3 employees and they are so overloaded it’s no wonder they have such a bad attitude. Since these stores are called pharmacies why don’t they concentrate on filling prescriptions? Plus the retail merchandise is 4 times the price of Walmart. America needs pharmacies that specializes in medicines!!! There’s tons of money to be made prescriptions….😕
PRICES WAY TOO HIGH!
Both my Sister and Brother in Law used to both work as Walgreens managers….. thank God they both got new jobs several years ago
Drug dealers come and they go.
I always found that CVS and Walgreens were more expensive. I needed more support for my feet. The product that I needed was $28-$30 at CVS, but then it was priced for $12-$15 at Walmart. I tried the device from CVS, but it wasn't durable. I went back to Walmart and purchased a similar product, and the product lasted longer at a fraction of the cost. Also, you have to factor in the presence of Amazon as well. There are more options at a fraction of the cost, and Amazon has a pharmacy.
That man has nothing but opinions on why Walgreens might be closing... He is not even an employee, let alone a Walgreens executive. Wtf?
I'm going to make a similar comment. He knows nothing about Walgreens, yet they interview him like he has all the answers.
@@AK-47ISTHEWAYmaybe he worked there before starting his independent pharmacy. Seems like they all have the same issue with theft and insurance companies being cheap and not reimbursing pharmacies like they should or maybe not in a timely manner. Probably both have same issues on back order medication as well.
Was at my local Walgreens yesterday. The prices of things were shocking! 😮