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Make sure to check your local pharmacy hours before you head out to pick up your prescription in the upcoming months.
CVS and Walmart are reducing pharmacy hours amid a staff shortage in the industry.
Beginning in March, Walmart pharmacies will close two hours earlier, at 7 p.m. CVS said it will shift or cut hours at about 6,000 locations also starting in March." CNN reports
They go on to say "Walmart, which has pharmacies in most of its 4,600 US locations, will close them two hours earlier, at 7 pm. CVS will shift or cut hours at about 6,000 US pharmacies."
CNN continued saying "For CVS, adjusting its hours is an attempt to ensure its “pharmacy teams are available to serve patients when they’re most needed,” the company said in a statement to CNN. The changes are part of its “regular course of business,” it added, so its hours meet customer demand.
In a statement to CNN, Walmart said the new hours are the result of “direct feedback” from its pharmacy employees and customers."
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