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I worked at a grocery store pharmacy in between. For the last two years, such partnerships have been testing concepts and piloting healthcare services and technology to develop what executives have called the "drugstore of the future. CVS Health Corp. signage is displayed outside a store in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., on For now, it appears CVS Health and Walgreens Boots Alliance are going down different paths and at different paces to providing healthcare services inside their stores. Walgreens vs CVS. Business Insider/Jessica Tyler A weekly serving of the biggest stories in fast food, shopping, and more. Business Insider/Jessica Tyler The counties contend the chains’ stores in the two counties bought a combined total of nearly 130 million oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, the most frequently diverted and abused painkillers, between 2000 and 2014. The lawsuits ask a judge to declare them class actions, which would open them to include plaintiffs making the same claims.A spokesman for Walgreens, named in one of the lawsuits, declined to comment Friday. I'm active in education and teach in the University of Iowa School of Journalism MA in Strategic Communication program. CVS Health currently operates ~9,700 pharmacies across the US.
That would be roughly 266 pills for every Lake County resident and 320 pills for every Trumbull County resident during that 15-year period.Lawsuits filed by two Ohio counties against retail pharmacy chains including CVS claiming their opioid dispensing practices flooded communities with pain pills and were a a public nuisance can continue, a federal judge in Cleveland has determined.Attorneys for the retail pharmacies have argued the stores were filling prescriptions written by physicians for legitimate medical needs.A trial in a case filed against six pharmacy companies by Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, and Summit County, which includes Akron, is scheduled for November.Those claims seek damages from the retail chains as distributors of painkillers but not as dispensers.
You can read about the recent financial performance of the two companies in Parts 5 and 6 of this series.Walgreens and CVS have each delivered year-to-date losses in the stock market this year. Business Insider/Jessica Tyler
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