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Walgreens will close a ‘significant’ number of its 8,600 US locations (www.cnn.com)

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Walgreens is set to close a substantial number of its roughly 8,600 locations across the United States as the company looks to reset the struggling pharmaceutical chain’s business.

The company didn’t announce a specific number of store closures, but it said Thursday that it is planning “significant” closures of underperforming stores across America as part of a multiyear optimization program.

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[–] Sterile_Technique 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A while back I crunched the price per mg from a bunch of different sources of the same meds.

Walgreens was the most expensive by a huge margin. The best was Costco, also by a pretty large margin; the difference between the two was over 1000% in some cases, not exaggerating.

Don't ever shop at Walgreens - they are a horrific ripoff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Funnily enough I just had a chance to price check the two on Claritin. $30 for 30 doses at Walgreens, $40 for 118 at Costco.

And the generic brand at Costco was $32 for 300.