The pharmacy chain, which operates thousands of locations across the United States, now expects to shutter fewer than 100 stores this year. Under Sycamore's stewardship, the company has shifted toward a tighter store optimisation strategy, targeting underperforming locations rather than executing a broad network reduction. List of Walgreen Stores Closing DownThat strategy has produced a confirmed closure list spanning at least a dozen states. CVS has also closed multiple locations in Baltimore this year, a city where access to neighbourhood-level pharmacy services is already strained. Rite Aid, once the third-largest pharmacy chain in the United States, completed a full shutdown of its remaining 89 stores after filing for bankruptcy twice in two years.