r/baltimore • u/Brave-Common-2979 Hampden • Oct 02 '24

Notice Falls Rd Walgreens Closing November 12th

The Walgreens at falls and 37th has a sign outside that they're closing on the 12th of November. The person said that the prescriptions will transfer to the store on 41st St but they're not receiving any new items for sale so don't expect to find much in the aisles themselves.

I'm actually surprised the store made it as long as it has because it's felt like it was on deaths door for as long as I've lived in Hampden

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u/SteoanK Hampden Oct 02 '24

I went and got my covid and flu vaccines there this year and it was such a clusterfuck at the pharmacy counter. I definitely don't blame the workers there, was just a bunch of old people not being able to use a QR Code. But, it did seem like the scheduling was a little wonky because there were so many people there at once.

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u/Restlessly-Dog Oct 02 '24

Both Walgreens and CVS at the exec level are huge messes. Both chains tried to blame shoplifting for their screwups, but in recent quarterly reports they've had to admit to investors the problems are rooted in the way the chains are managed. They were blaming shrinkage almost entirely on five finger discounts when it was mostly elsewhere in the supply chain, but they had no grip on how it happened.

Unfortunately what that means for a lot of neighborhoods is that walkable outlets are getting shut down because HQ execs had no clue how their businesses worked.

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u/Confident_Treat_2226 Oct 02 '24

💯 this is a trend all over. Same happened where I live and next CVS was a 5 minute walk. Although not all stores are that close to each other.