Here is the full picture. Walgreens' 100 closures this year are part of a plan to shut roughly 1,200 stores over three years. Rite Aid, once the third-largest chain in the country, went bankrupt twice, closed its final stores in October 2025, and no longer exists as a physical pharmacy at all, roughly 1,250 locations gone. CVS closed about 900 between 2022 and 2024, then another 270 after that. Add it up and America has lost somewhere north of 2,000 net pharmacy locations in
