Business
CVS is cutting costs, Rite Aid’s shelves are empty and Walgreens is closing stores as retail pharmacies across Los Angeles and the country face a challenging retail environment and pressure from insurance company intermediaries.
Aug. 31, 2024
Walgreens is finalizing a plan to fix its business that could result in the closure of hundreds of additional stores in the next three years
June 27, 2024
Science & Medicine
Drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens plan to start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone in a few states. Walgreens will dispense the drug in California.
March 1, 2024
California
In a move to combat retail theft, a Compton Rite Aid put a majority of its products behind lock and key. The community is divided on the decision.
Sept. 19, 2024
The pharmacy chains have discovered that taking a larger role in the healthcare system than simply dispensing prescriptions and selling over-the-counter notions is more complicated and costlier than they expected.
Oct. 25, 2023
Employees at Walgreens pharmacies across the U.S. walked out Monday, protesting unsafe working conditions.
Oct. 10, 2023
Walgreens Boots Alliance reached a tentative settlement with consumers who claimed that the drugstore giant was “willfully blind” to fraud at blood-testing startup Theranos.
May 23, 2023
Letters to the Editor
Newsom’s threatened boycott of Walgreens feeds into his enemies’ narrative of him, even if the drug chain is wrong not to sell mifepristone in 20 states.
March 8, 2023
Roscoe Rike, a 30-year-old transgender man, said he was denied his medication at an Oakland Walgreens because of the pharmacist’s religious beliefs.
June 24, 2023
Jamie McBride, director of the union for most rank-and-file Los Angeles Police Department officers, faces multiple internal investigations related to his company, Watermark Security.
Sept. 8, 2024