chelsey b. coombs: nothing in the story about the glass cases that require a usually non-existent employee to unlock hurting profits

nothing in the story about the glass cases that require a usually non-existent employee to unlock hurting profits

Walgreens will close a “significant portion” of its 8,600 U.S. locations over the next three years as it struggles to keep up with a rapidly evolving retail pharmacy industry, the company announced Thursday.

Walgreens to shutter many stores as profits tumblewapo.st The retail pharmacy giant expects to close a “significant portion” of its 8,600 U.S. locations over the next three years.

weird how locking up everything behind glass because you refuse to have enough staff on the floor to prevent shoplifting your profits tumble lol

also nothing in the article about this:

Walgreens Finds A New Way To Shove More Ads In Your Facewww.thetakeout.com A rollout of digital cooler doors at Walgreens has us questioning our dystopian reality.

lmao incredible

This whole story is wild, the former Walgreens boss started the digital door company and then convinced his old board buddies to install them in every store and surprise they’re expensive and don’t work and people hate them He is currently being the most sued

o damn I didn't know that so it's like the Sears dude who's love of Ayn Rand destroyed the company

Ayn Rand killed Searswww.salon.com How the me-first corporate structure installed by hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert helped ruin the retail giant

I think Walgreen guy figured out a decent legal way to defraud his old boss but basically

Walgreens is run by some of the greediest but stupidest creeps alive. The same bunch that got gulled by Theranos and Liz “Dad Voice” Holmes.

I’m sure private equity had nothing to do with this shocking turn of events, and we won’t find out later that it was private equity all along.

Their new CEO also hates the retail pharmacy business and is trying to move cash into PBM-style “cost plus” drug pricing bullshit so they can make fake money while selling fewer actual things www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/ne...

New Walgreens CEO signals pharmacy giant will shift to new drug pricing modelswww.fiercehealthcare.com In his first earnings call since taking over as CEO of Walgreens, Tim Wentworth signaled the drugstore retail giant is exploring new pharmacy models as cost-plus drug pricing gains momentum. | New Wal...

love that for them - and for me, the customer!!!! lmao

Also noticed their stores have gotten dirtier over the last decade, and that they use the cheapest possible fixtures on everything

The Walgreens pictured in the article got rid of shopping baskets. I can’t even imagine a rationale for that.

Rude

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Non existent employee ?

walgreens/cvs/etc are always chronically understaffed

Aww.

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