Tag: drugstores

January 9, 2020

Walgreens Boots Alliance sees the physician inside or attached to its drugstores as key to the company’s long-term survival as a community healthcare provider. Though two partnerships Walgreens has to strengthen the drugstore chain’s relationships with physicians remain in testing […]

November 6, 2019

CVS Health will close 22 “underperforming” drugstores early next year in addition to the 46 stores it shuttered earlier this year, the company said Wednesday in a regulatory filing. The locations weren’t disclosed. The company recorded a $96 million impairment […]

July 1, 2019

Walgreens Boots Alliance is closing 200 Boots drugstores in the United Kingdom as part of a global “transformation cost management program” launched earlier this year that has figured in store closures in the U.S. The plan disclosed late last week […]

May 1, 2019

Walgreens plans to increase mental health and substance abuse training for hundreds of pharmacists and staff at its drugstores amid the U.S. opioid epidemic. Walgreens has partnered with the National Council for Behavioral Health and the American Pharmacists Association to […]

April 2, 2019

Walgreens Boots Alliance reported quarterly earnings and revenue that missed analysts’ expectations and lowered its forecast for 2019 in what CEO Stefano Pessina called the “most difficult” quarter since acquiring European drugstore chain Alliance Boots in late 2014. The company […]

June 19, 2018

Walgreens Boots Alliance and Humana say they are partnering to operate “senior-focused primary care clinics” inside drugstores. The deal announced Tuesday involves two Walgreens stores in the Kansas City, Missouri area. The clinics, which will open this fall, will complement […]