Walgreens Corporation responds to “bogus” list of store closings – KFIZ News-Talk 1450 AM

While Walgreens has announced that some of their bottom 25% of performing stores will likely be shutting down, the company reached out to KFIZ to advise that a list going around on some media sites is not accurate, and in fact no stores have yet been chosen to be closed.

KFIZ had reported that the 20 west Pioneer store in Fond du Lac was on the list to be closed, but now with this statement from Walgreens, its noted that, as of now, they are not on any list to be shut down, nor is any of the Fond du Lac locations. Below is the official press release from Walgreens Co.

Approximately 25% of Walgreens stores are not contributing to our long-term strategy. We’re finalizing an optimization program that we expect will include closing a significant portion of these locations over the next three years. We are also taking a series of actions and making investments to enhance the customer and patient experience.

While we cannot announce any specific closures right now, when we make the decision to close a store, we have processes in place to ease the transition for the communities affected.