Walgreens is closing approximately 1,200 locations, including 500 over the next year, the drug store chain announced Tuesday.
Those closures represent a significant escalation from a few months ago, when the financially struggling company in June announced it was shutting 300 underperforming locations as part of a multiyear optimization program under CEO Tim Wentworth.
The 1,200 closures announced Tuesday includes those 300 previously announced a few months ago.
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