Shoppers can’t stand when toothpaste, deodorant and other items are locked up behind glass display cabinets at stores.

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

The five local Walgreens stores to be closed are all on the city’s South and West sides, serving African American and Latino ...

Retailers have been faced with increases in shoplifting and retail theft. But anti-theft prevention can hurt retail sales, ...

Timothy Wentworth, the CEO of Walgreens' parent company, Walgreens Boots Alliance, said during a recent earnings call that ...

It’s also cheaper for them to lock up products than add more employees, security and other major investments that may limit theft but make the store unprofitable to operate. A Walgreens ...

Walgreens and other retailers have had to combat so-called "retail shrink," or the loss of inventory from causes other than sales, Wentworth noted. The company took steps to secure more products ...

Walgreens is looking at "creative things" to stop theft without resorting to locking up products, Wentworth said, but he didn't "have anything magnificent to share" yet. Walgreens and other ...

The CEO of Walgreens suggested that placing their products under lock and key may have actually backfired. "When you lock things up … you don't sell as many of them," he said. Walgreens’ plan ...