Walgreens Closing 1,200 Stores: See Impact On NJ Locations

NEW JERSEY — More than 1,200 Walgreens stores will close over the next three years as the struggling drug store chain attempts to complete a successful financial turnaround.

Walgreens did not reveal which locations will be shuttered. The chain has approximately 8,500 stores in the United States, including about 180 locations in New Jersey.

The company announced Tuesday that about 500 of the closures will occur in the current fiscal year, which began in September.

The closures 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 Walgreens locations in New Jersey, according to the company website:

• Absecon
• Asbury Park
• Atlantic City
• Barnegat
• Basking Ridge
• Bayonne
• Bayville
• Belford
• Belleville
• Belmar
• Bergenfield
• Berkeley Heights
• Bernardsville
• Blackwood
• Bloomfield
• Bogta
• Boonton
• Bound Brook
• Brick
• Bridgeton
• Bridgewater
• Burlington
• Califon
• Camden
• Carlstadt
• Carteret
• Cherry Hill
• Chester
• Clark
• Cliffside Park
• Clifton
• Clinton
• Colonia
• Cranford
• Delran
• Denville
• Dover
• Dumont
• East Brunswick
• East Orange
• East Rutherford
• East Windsor
• Edison
• Egg Harbor City
• Egg Harbor Township
• Elizabeth
• Elmwood Park
• Englewood
• Englishtown
• Evesham
• Ewing
• Fair Lawn
• Fairfield
• Flemington
• Florham Park
• Fort Lee
• Franklin
• Franklin Park
• Freehold
• Garfield
• Glassboro
• Green Brook
• Hackensack
• Hackettstown
• Haddon Township
• Haledon
• Hamilton Township
• Hammonton
• Harrison
• Hasbrouck Heights
• Hawthorne
• Hazlet
• Hillsborough
• Hillsdale
• Hillside
• Hoboken
• Hopatcong
• Howell
• Irvington
• Jackson
• Jersey City
• Kearny
• Kinnelon
• Ledgewood
• Lincoln Park
• Lincroft
• Linden
• Lindenwold
• Little Egg Harbor Township
• Little Silver
• Lodi
• Long Branch
• Lyndhurst
• Madison
• Magnolia
• Manahawkin
• Manalapan
• Mantua
• Maplewood
• Matawan
• Millville
• Monroe Township
• Morristown
• Mount Ephraim
• Mount Laurel
• Neptune
• New Brunswick
• Newark
• Newton
• North Arlington
• North Bergen
• North Brunswick
• North Cape May
• Northfield
• Oakhurst
• Oakland
• Ocean City
• Old Bridge
• Oradell
• Orange
• Parsippany
• Passaic
• Paterson
• Pennington
• Penns Grove
• Pennsauken
• Pennsville
• Perth Amboy
• Piscataway
• Plainfield
• Pleasantville
• Point Pleasant Beach
• Port Monmouth
• Princeton
• Princeton Junction
• Rahway
• Ramsey
• Red Bank
• Ridgewood
• Rio Grande
• River Vale
• Robbinsville
• Rockaway
• Roseland
• Roselle
• Rutherford
• Sayreville
• Sewell
• Short Hills
• Sicklerville
• Somerset
• Somerville
• South Orange
• South River
• Spotswood
• Spring Lake
• Springfield
• Stirling
• Summit
• Sussex
• Teaneck
• Toms River
• Trenton
• Union
• Union City
• Vauxhall
• Ventnor City
• Verona
• Vineland
• Voorhees
• Waldwick
• Warren
• Wayne
• West Caldwell
• West Milford
• West New York
• West Orange
• Westfield
• Wharton
• Whitehouse Station
• Whiting
• Wildwood
• Williamstown
• Willingboro
• Woodbridge
• Woodbury
• Woodland Park
• Wyckoff