What the hell happened to Walgreens, attempt two.

[Missourian]

Welcome to Maine, the way life should be!

but honestly, the other surrounding New England states are truly beautiful as well...shortly outside of the coastal cities and other big cities it is stunning! A small town living, with an abundance of trees and small family farms, land not built on, thousands of lakes and preserved lands....And Vermont is really beautiful too with gorgeous mountains, great skiing, with a very small town,rural vibe living too but it is land locked, Maine has its beautiful coast!

Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont <chef's kiss>!

Upstate New York is nice too.

NYC, Eastern New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts. Nope, Sorry...if you told me the choices were being set ablaze or going to any of those places, I'd ask exactly how long would I have to be on fire...

 

[saveliberty]

Takes longer to crank out a pharmacist these days. Like most industries, skilled employees are old and retiring. Few replacements. Couple that with mail order pharmacies and an overabundance of stores it is the natural result. We lost a RiteAid last month. The status of the Walgreens is unknown. Fortunately we can fall back on locally owned and operated pharmacies.

 

[DudleySmith]

Ever used a Walgreen's? I did for a while.

Prices are high for stuff on the shelves. Entirely different pharmacy crew almost every time I went and half couldn't speak English clearly. Frequently out of the stuff I had a prescription for.

Changed to CVS, got a lot better service and timely notifications for refills. Even when I didn't pick them up within 5 days and showed up after they put the script back in stock, they refilled them while I waited, usually within minutes. Better service than Walmart's, which my mother used for some reason I never fathomed.

 

[DudleySmith]

My Walgreens pharmacy was closing unexpectedly and has now changed their hours to closing at 6:00 PM and is also closed weekends because they can't find people to staff it 7 days a week. It's likely a nationwide problem.

Edit: I see the same thing is happening in Maine.

There is no labor shortage here, never has been. That's just whining from companies who don't want to pay squat, could care less about keeping employees, and when word gets out they eventually run out of locals who will bother applying.

Companies now feel entitled to cheap labor and free govt. training for their employees. Others can't find anybody who can afford to live where their owners and execs want to live, like Silly Con Valley or Austin. Bad and arrogant management is always the real problem, always, and smarter people have gotten reticent to relocate any more because of ridiculous housing prices and toxic corporate cultures and blatant dishonesty and lying. It's all self-inflicted.

Why bust one's ass learning a complicated career like engineering when all they will hire is desperate green card applicants from shithole countries who will work for convenience store clerk wages? Even Trump said he was going to hand foreign students green cards when they graduate from American schools automatically.

 

[braalian]

I like Walgreens. They seem to have good prices. My local store is always clean and the employees are friendly and helpful.

So perhaps one of you who is more savvy than I am in the arena of corporate stock pricing will help me understand what is going on with Walgreens stock price collapse.

The same thing that’s happening to brick-and-mortar retail everywhere….

I like Walgreens too. It is generally clean with pleasant employees. But it’s so much more convenient to just go to a large supermarket like Walmart or Meijer who have pharmacies as well

 

[odanny]