SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – On the heels of Macy’s’ statement, a Walgreens location enclosed downtown San Francisco on Tuesday. People that reside in the location have actually been functioning to attempt and stop this from taking place, yet those initiatives did not prosper.

Many are fretted about elders that are currently without accessibility to a neighboring drug store. Dozens collected outside the Walgreens at 275 Sacramento St. on Tuesday, rallying for the business to alter its mind. But Walgreens progressed with the closure. 

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“At first, just total shock and surprise,” claimed Barbary Coast President Diana Taylor. “You understand, a drug store resembles a supermarket. It’s the facility of an area offering truly vital requirements.”

Taylor has actually arranged initiatives to beg with Walgreens and the city to quit the closure, yet they’ve had no such good luck. 

“What we found out was it’s not about human needs or what the community needs, it was all about the numbers,” she claimed. 

A representative for Walgreens informed KRON4 the location’s closure results from a considerable decline in foot website traffic considering that the pandemic. But Alec Bash, that lives simply obstructs away, differs keeping that analysis.

“I believe we have a lot of foot website traffic in this location and we obtain plenty extra each week,” he claimed. 

Bash and Taylor are amongst those fretted about elders not having accessibility to a neighboring drug store. The nearby Walgreens will certainly currently be a fifty percent mile away on Montgomery Street. Taylor states closures will certainly remove their self-reliance.

“In terms of the seniors, they feel… they are terrified,” she said. “They feel they have no choice and it could mean they have to go to assisted living.”

Other long time homeowners stress this will just harm the progression the city is making in the downtown location.

“With Walgreens closing, that’s taking away our amenities and I’m worried people are going to start moving out of the area, because what do we have?” claimed Michele Hennessey, that stays in the community. 

A representative for Walgreens states all drug store data are being moved to the location on Montgomery Street. The business likewise states they are providing cost-free and lowered prescription shipment for the following 90 days.

The team of next-door neighbors that KRON4 talked with state they have actually not surrendered hope. They still strategy to see if Walgreens will certainly reevaluate its choice to shut.

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