San Francisco’s pharmacy crisis deepens with another store closure

By Madeline Medina : sfgate – excerpt (audio)

CVS Pharmacy plans to close another one of its San Francisco locations next month.

CVS Pharmacy plans to shutter one of its San Francisco locations next month, further shrinking its presence in a city already grappling with widespread pharmacy closures.

The store at 701 Van Ness Ave. is slated to close on Feb. 24, the company said in a statement shared with SFGATE, leaving just eight CVS stores in San Francisco.

Patient prescriptions will be transferred to the pharmacy located at 1059 Hyde St., which is about 1 mile away from the Van Ness location. Employees at the closing location are also being offered “comparable roles within the company,” CVS said in its statement.

CVS did not cite an exact reason for the closure, but the company said some of the factors it considers are “market dynamics, population shifts and a community’s store density.”