Walgreens is closing its Houston distribution center and cutting 159 jobs. The pharmacy chain has been in turmoil since filing for Chapter 11-adjacent restructuring, closing hundreds of stores and fundamentally rethinking its footprint.
At 300,000 employees, 159 cuts are a rounding error. But each facility closure represents a permanent reduction in the company's logistics capacity and a signal that Walgreens continues to shrink. The pharmacy retail model that sustained Walgreens for decades is under pressure from Amazon Pharmacy, mail-order prescriptions, and declining foot traffic.