Prescription holders here are being sent to the CVS on Bleecker...
As USA Today reported last month:
The thinning of Walgreens locations has been in the works. Walgreens said in October 2024 it planned to close about 1,200 underperforming stores across the U.S. as a strategy to offset declining profits resulting from low drug reimbursement rates and sluggish retail sales.
This is the latest Walgreens or Duane Reade to shutter around here in the past 5-6 years. The oddly configured Walgreens on 14th Street and Fourth Avenue closed in January 2022, the Walgreens on Astor Place closed in August 2020, and three neighborhood Duane Reade by Walgreens locations shut down: The outpost on Avenue D at Houston and First Avenue between 14th Street and 15th Street shuttered in November 2019, while the storefront on 10th Street and Third Avenue shut down in early March 2019.
Still, it seems like there are still a lot of Duane Reades around.
3 comments:
"Sluggish retail sales," - yeah, because you put damn near everything under lock and key. I want to shop/buy local but all the anti-theft rubbish is driving me to Amazon every time.
Shop locally owned. Block Drug on Second Avenue and Sixth helps so many people too. Thank you Carmine and Beth!
I'm always nervous my pharmacy will close. The pickings are getting less and less. Strange times.
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