drugstore

I’m old enough to remember the day when CVS, the big drugstore company, opted to get even bigger by acquiring the health insurer Aetna.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The company is splitting its drugstore and insurance businesses amid mounting regulatory pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

As a girl, I remember being mystified by entire aisles at the drugstore: Who needs this stuff?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

According to a 2022 inspection report, when the drugstore was asked, “How are you storing these?” because they’re not in the logs, he said, “It’s supposed to be a little bit freezing.”

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

We’d managed to escape school, but we didn’t have a car, and I didn’t want to spend the rest of the day in a drugstore parking lot.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

When CVS Health CVS 0.30%increase; up pointing triangle said last week it would spin off its 9,000 drugstores, nobody cheered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

There are its namesake drugstores, but also pharmacy-benefits manager Caremark, insurer Aetna, primary-care center Oak Street Health, and in-home services provider Signify Health.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

We checked out two intersections that used to have two drugstores each, and all four of them are closed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2026

The concept of prescription vending machines isn’t novel; consumer-facing automated pharmacy kiosks date back to the mid-2000s, when San Diego-based automated-pharmacy company Asteres began introducing its ScriptCenter machines in drugstores and grocery stores.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025

With no gas stations, owners had to lug five-gallon fuel cans to local drugstores, filling them for 60 cents a gallon and hoping the pharmacist wouldn’t substitute benzene for gasoline.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand