{"id":984497,"date":"2026-08-06T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/984497\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:23:57","slug":"walgreens-closing-stores-in-dc-nj-ny-and-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/984497\/","title":{"rendered":"Walgreens closing stores in DC, NJ, NY, and VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gettyimages-2245869570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA &#8211; NOVEMBER 7: A Walgreen&#8217;s logo is displayed at one of their stores on November 8, 2025 in San Diego, CA. (Photo by Kevin Carter\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Walgreens is continuing to close its doors at locations across the country, forcing thousands of customers to find a new place to fill their prescriptions and buy everyday essentials.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Several of those closures are happening in the Northeast, including stores in New Jersey, New York, Virginia and Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Walgreens confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2026\/08\/04\/walgreens-closing-stores-full-list-locations\/91172946007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">USA Today<\/a> that at least a dozen locations have closed recently or are set to close this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Store closings <\/p>\n<ul original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">New Jersey: Location at 33 River Road in Bogota closing August 6<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">New York:\u00a0Location at 120 Court Street and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">District of Columbia: Location at Connecticut and Florida Avenue in Northwest DC<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Virginia: Location at 1301 South Joyce Street in Arlington<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Illinois: Two stores in Chicago and another in Rockford<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Missouri: One store in Bridgeton and another in St. Louis<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">South Carolina: A location in Beaufort closing Aug. 6<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Texas: A distribution center in Houston<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Washington: One location in Seattle<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\" data-v-03e8ff79=\"\">Wisconsin: One store in Milwaukee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Since its acquisition by private equity firm Sycamore Partners in August 2025, Walgreens has significantly scaled back its nationwide store closures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Prior to the buyout, the drugstore chain announced a turnaround strategy that included shuttering roughly 1,200 underperforming U.S. locations. Walgreens currently lists about 8,000 locations in the US, dropping from 8,500 reported stores at the time of purchase.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Walgreens now reportedly expects to shutter fewer than 100 stores in 2026, a sharp decrease from previous internal projections of up to 700.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information from this article was sourced from USA Today and previus reporting.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/nj\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA &#8211; NOVEMBER 7: A Walgreen&#8217;s logo is displayed at one of their stores on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":984498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,50,5226,5225,15747,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-984497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-nj","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117048553582633011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}