THE ‘WALL’ WILL NO LONGER BE ‘GREEN’ ANY MORE:
LOUISA WALGREENS PHARMACY/ RETAIL STORE TO CLOSE DOORS PERMANENTLY, LAST DAY BUSINESS SET FOR FEB. 21
DECISION BY WALGREENS CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS TO SHUT DOWN WAS MADE AT START OF THIS MONTH; CLOSURE MARKS THE THIRD LONG TERM BUSINESS IN LOUISA IN THE PAST THREE MONTHS TO GET THE PINK SLIP
FEBRUARY 13, 2024 – written by WADE QUEEN
LITERALLY IN THE PAST THAT SAW HAPPIER-SUNNIER DAYS (WELL, EXCEPT…THIS PIC WAS TAKEN ON THE DAY OF THE POOPING ROBBER INCIDENT): THE LOUISA, KY. WALGREENS IS SHUTTING DOWN ON FEBRUARY 21, AFTER THE WALGREENS CORPORATE LEADERSHIP MADE THE DECISION AT THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY.
Word has been spreading in just the last couple of days that the Louisa Walgeens pharmacy retail store is going out of business, with the business closing its doors for good, effective at the end of Wednesday, February 21.
The announcement about the shutting down of the Louisa Walgreens was sent by both email and postal mail to the local customers who are using or have used the pharmacy in the past to get their prescription medications.
The Louisa Walgreens is located at the entrance to the Food City Plaza. It was previously a Rite-Aid pharmacy retail store,, but was switched to Walgreens chain a couple of years ago as part of the Walgreens company buying out part of the Rite-Aid chain stores, which caused a large percentage of those newly acquired Rite-Aid stores to be shut down shortly after (all part of the fallout of the failed full merger national attempt of both Walgreens and Rite-Aid into one new company in 2017).
The Louisa Rite-Aid moved to the Food City in the very early 2000s, after it was originally opened and located in the upper end corner of the Louisa Plaza in the late 1970s.
The impending closure of the Louisa Walgreen is the third significant/long-serving to go out of business in just over three months, following the closures of both the Family Dollar Store in the Louisa Plaza, which had been at location since the store opened there in the early 1980s; and the Car City Automotive of Louisa automobile dealership, which was located on U.S. 23, near the Walmart Supercenter plaza; at the near end of 2023
The decision to close the Louisa Walgreens was made by the Walgreens corporate headquarters located in Deerfield, Illinois, at the beginning this month.
Walgreens CHQ in their letters sent out to all customers that were listed in the Louisa Walgreen electronic prescription records data, that the company had made the decision by quoting “careful consideration”, and that the company “regrets any inconvenience” for those all the regular customers who have been routinely used the Louisa Walgreens.
COPY OF THE LETTER FROM WALGREENS ANNOUNCING THE IMPENDING PERMANENT CLOSURE OF THE LOUISA, KENTUCKY WALMART ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21.
Further on in their letter Walgreens stated that the prescription records of customers of the Louisa Walgreens can be used at any Walgreens pharmacy, including, specifically at the now closest Walgreens, which is in Warfield, KY., on the far side of Martin County!!
For the very soon to be former Louisa and Fort Gay customers, if anybody wants to actually go to the Warfield, KY. Walgreens, located on 9145 Beauty Road, one can travel to that destination one of two ways reach via the new traveling math: From Louisa, it takes 41 minutes going 34.3 miles via US-23 South and KY-645 East; or from Fort Gay, it takes 38 minutes going 30.4 miles via US-52 South.
It will not take any rocket science to come to the easy conclusion that the four remaining pharmacies in Louisa will now each be getting a lot of new customers seeking to get their medications.
Warfield is a city of a population of around 460, Louisa has a population of around 2,650. And Fort Gay has a population of around 670.
But now Warfield has something that both Louisa and Fort Gay will now not have: Warfield has got a Walgreens pharmacy retail store.
And oh yes, way more adding to the sting, the closing of the Louisa Walgreens means one less store site to buy alcohol in Louisa since it it one of the two stores in town licensed to sell liquor. Food City has the other license of two allowed. The Warfield Walgreens likely does, as the little town is designated ‘moist’ but its’ nearby bigger city of Inez will be very soon, too, having passed in an election in early November 2023 via the vote in favor of alcohol sales, 71-65.
