Grocery chain ShopRite plans to close 23 pharmacies across New Jersey and 62 in all, just weeks after announcing that 39 of its locations would provide Covid-19 vaccinations, according to Gothamist.
The closures will not affect the vaccination program. The stores being closed were “unable to sustain sufficient sales,” according to Karen O’Shea, a spokesperson for ShopRite brand owner Wakefern Food Corporation, which is based in Keasbey, New Jersey.
The closures will leave Wakefern with 147 pharmacies, according to Supermarket News. Wakefern will sell the prescription files of customers of those shuttered pharmacies to CVS Health. [Gothamist] [Supermarket News] — Dennis Lynch