Walgreens Closing More Than 1,000 Stores

Walgreens is pressing ahead with plans to shut stores

The struggling pharmacy giant previously announced plans to close over a thousand stores by 2027. The latest scale-back doomed five locations in California.

Store managers in Whittier, Los Angeles, Orange, Placentia, and Stanton, California received notice that their stores will permanently shutter.

All five stores will close by the end of March. Walgreens hopes to transfer 93 impacted employees to nearby locations.

“It is never an easy decision to close a store,” Marty Maloney, a director of media relations for the pharmacy brand, told the Los Angeles Daily News.

“We know that our stores are important to the communities that we serve, and therefore do everything possible to improve the store performance. When closures are necessary, like those here in California, we will work in partnership with community stakeholders to minimize customer disruptions.”

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