Walgreens wouldn't say crime contributed to the closures, but these locations have been plagued by shoplifting for years. "No, we need this," Catrina Mckneely, a San Francisco resident said.

Walgreens’ plan to combat increasing theft by locking products up at their stores has hurt sales, the company’s CEO said in a ...

The Bay Area is an epicenter of shoplifting, and one San Francisco Walgreens even chained an entire freezer shut in 2023. Wentworth called the fight against retail theft a “hand-to-hand combat ...

American pharmacy store chain Walgreens has discovered that locking its wares behind lock and key in an apparent effort to ...

In 2021, Walgreens blamed ongoing retail theft for a series of store closures ... some 200 stores around the country, including in San Francisco. Walgreens has closed at least 17 stores in ...

A DOZEN WALGREENS STORES IN SAN FRANCISCO TO CLOSE This is likely in ... several pharmacies and retail stores have used to prevent theft. Wentworth claimed these measures have led to customers ...

The drug store is the only full-service pharmacy near Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and a go-to for residents in ...