CVS closing hundreds of its drugstores
over the next 3 years
Posted By: AltaD, 11/18/2021 1:09:52 PM
CVS Health will close hundreds of drugstores over the next three years, as the retail giant adjusts to changing customer needs and converts to new store formats. The company said Thursday that it will close about 300 stores a year for the next three years, nearly a tenth of its roughly 10,000 retail locations as it reduces store count density in some places. The company said Thursday that it has been evaluating population changes, customer buying patterns and future health needs to “ensure it has the right kinds of stores in the right locations.”(Snip) explosive growth of online shopping has blunted the demand for such in-person convenience.
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Naperville Mayor Steve Chirico points to the fact that Illinois is the only state in the Midwest that still has a mask mandate on the books,(Snip)He goes on to argue that masks have a “minimal, if any,” impact on the spread of the coronavirus.
“Fact: Illinois is the only Midwestern state that currently requires a mask, and yet as of today, we are no better off than the surrounding states,”
CVS Health will close hundreds of drugstores over the next three years, as the retail giant adjusts to changing customer needs and converts to new store formats.
The company said Thursday that it will close about 300 stores a year for the next three years, nearly a tenth of its roughly 10,000 retail locations as it reduces store count density in some places.
The company said Thursday that it has been evaluating population changes, customer buying patterns and future health needs to “ensure it has the right kinds of stores in the right locations.”(Snip) explosive growth of online shopping has blunted the demand for such in-person convenience.
Crypto investors are raising millions
to buy a copy of the Constitution at a
Sotheby’s auction 7 replies
to buy a copy of the Constitution at a
Sotheby’s auction 7 replies
Sotheby’s is auctioning off an extremely rare and historic first-edition printing of the U.S. Constitution, and crypto investors are pooling millions of dollars worth of ether to buy it.
An organization known as ConstitutionDAO is raising the money using a digital crypto wallet with the aim of crowdsourcing enough funds to make the winning bid when the document hits the auction block on Thursday night.
The foundational text is valued at $15 million to $20 million. Since launching five days ago, the group has thus far raised 967 ether, or $4.3 million.
The exercise offers some of the first practical insight into how crypto infrastructure can be used to facilitate fractional ownership
The second-ranking general in the US military has sounded the alarm about China’s weapons development — warning that Beijing may soon have the capability to launch a surprise nuclear strike against America.
“They look like a first-use weapon,” Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CBS News Tuesday. “That’s what those weapons look like to me.” (Snip) “From a technology perspective, it’s pretty impressive,” he said. “But Sputnik created a sense of urgency in the United States … The test on July 27 did not create that sense of urgency. I think it probably should create a sense of urgency.”
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Billionaire Citadel founder Ken Griffin
says he'll go 'all-in' to defeat Dem Illinois
Gov. Pritzker 6 replies
says he'll go 'all-in' to defeat Dem Illinois
Gov. Pritzker 6 replies
Call it the battle of the billionaires. Ken Griffin, the Chicago billionaire who runs hedge fund giant Citadel and owns the enormous market-making firm Citadel Securities, says he’s "all-in" to back a candidate to try and defeat fellow billionaire and Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois."I’m going to make sure that if he runs again, that I am all-in to support the candidate who will beat him," Griffin said Wednesday during comments he made at the DealBook Online Summit hosted by The New York Times. "He doesn’t deserve to be the governor of our state. "Griffin, a longtime foe of Pritzker, charged that the governor "called me a liar
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Kyle Rittenhouse Not Guilty On All Counts
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A seven-woman, five-man jury has returned a verdict in the self-defense case of Kyle Rittenhouse.
The jury spent four days deliberating whether the now-18-year-old would be locked up in a cell for the rest of life or be free after the attacks on August 25, 2020.
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In many instances, his handlers have had to step in and take over, aggressively herding the media away like cattle during a roundup, awkwardly upstaging the leader of the free world at a time when this country needs a confident leader
President Biden is 'angry and concerned' after Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges Friday, but says he stands by the jury's decision. The president weighed in on the divisive, high-profile case hours after the verdict was read, telling reporters, 'I stand with the jury as the jury system has concluded. The jury system works and you have to abide by it.'In an attempt to placate both sides, he later released a statement that read: 'While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included,
Hillary Clinton Says “Voter Fraud Is
A Myth” Despite 4 Years Of Saying 2016
Election Was Rigged 29 replies
A Myth” Despite 4 Years Of Saying 2016
Election Was Rigged 29 replies
If you have ever had a stray cat that will not stop coming back or a friend or family member who insists on sending a fruit cake every Christmas season, then you understand how I feel about crooked Hillary Clinton. The disgruntled and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton once again made a fool of her politically irrelevant and narcissistic entitled self. On Wednesday Clinton tweeted out to her 31 million Twitter followers claiming “voter fraud” is a “myth”. “Voter fraud is such a myth that its most outspoken critics have to commit the fraud themselves to find an example of it” (Tweet)
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AP fails to mention that items cost more at CVS than at rival stores and big cities won't prosecute shoplifters.