Health Affairs July 15, 2024
In January 2024, a Walgreens location in Roxbury, Massachusetts, a predominantly Black and Latinx neighborhood in Boston, closed despite local grassroots activism and congressional support to keep it open. The shuttered store follows a series of Walgreens closures in the Roxbury, Mattapan, and Hyde Park neighborhoods of Boston.
This is not an isolated event. The largest drugstore chain corporations in the United States are closing thousands of stores nationally—creating pharmacy deserts and leaving patients and health care systems inadequately equipped to manage care. By the end of 2024, CVS plans to close 900 stores, including pharmacies within Target stores, and Walgreens plans to close 150 stores. Since Rite Aid’s bankruptcy last October, more than 200 stores in the US have...
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