Forbes June 7, 2019
For now, it appears CVS Health and Walgreens Boots Alliance are going down different paths and at different paces to providing healthcare services inside their stores.
But neither pharmacy chain rival is turning away from retail healthcare as a critical growth strategy.
News this week that CVS Health is expanding its new “HealthHub” conceptto 1,500 stores across the U.S. within three years provides clarity to the drugstore chain’s plan to fill unused and underperforming retail space with more healthcare services, medical supplies and equipment.
CVS earlier this year began to pilot three “HealthHUB” locations in Houston that dedicate more than 20% of the store to health services, adding thousands of new “wellness items” as well as additional services at its...