Walgreens Closing 9 MA Stores, Here's Where: Report

MASSACHUSETTS - Nine Walgreens locations across Massachusetts are set to close, according to the Boston Globe. The chain has approximately 8,500 stores in the United States, and 140 of those are in Massachusetts.

The company announced last week that about 500 of the closures will occur in this fiscal year. They were announced as the Deerfield, Illinois-based company reported a fourth-quarter loss of $3 billion. Still, Walgreens officials remained optimistic about the chain's long-term survival prospects.

"This turnaround will take time, but we are confident it will yield significant financial and consumer benefits over the long term," Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth said in a statement.

The company had announced in June that a significant number of stores would be closing. At the time, Wentworth said, "We continue to face a difficult operating environment, including persistent pressures on the U.S.consumer and the impact of recent marketplace dynamics, which have eroded pharmacy margins."

Here are the locations set to close in Massachusetts:

• 38 W. Main St, Norton, on March 17
• 525 Boston Post Road East, Marlborough, on March 18
• 85 Huttleston Ave., Fairhaven, on March 19
• 99 Westfield St., West Springfield, on March 20
• 32 Union St., Easthampton, on March 25
• 625 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, on March 27
• 757 Gallivan Blvd., Boston, on April 28
• 800 River St., Haverhill, on April 28
• 256 Pleasant St., Methuen, on April 29

The Globe also reported that locations in Springfield, Weston, Athol, West Roxbury, Quincy and Hyannis have closed in recent months.

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