Amid its ongoing restructuring efforts, CVS plans on closing hundreds more stores in 2025, which the company says will streamline operations and help it adapt to shifting consumer needs.
Why Is CVS Closing Locations?
In its recent annual report, filed in February, CVS announced that it would be closing 271 retail stores in 2025 as part of its “enterprise-wide restructuring plan intended to streamline and simplify the organization.”
This follows the closure of around 900 locations between 2022 and 2024. A spokesperson for CVS told Newsweek that these closures will enable the company to optimize its “existing stores and pharmacies.”
The spokesperson said that the closures were based on several factors, including “population shifts, consumer buying patterns, store and pharmacy density, pharmacy care access, and community health needs.” This will enable the company to better meet customers’ needs and was not a response to industry pressures.
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Where Are CVS Closing Locations?
CVS has not released a list of locations that will be closed amid this strategic realignment, and declined to provide any details of which states or cities may be affected.
However, according to consumer-focused website The Krazy Coupon Lady, citing local news sources, 34 CVS locations have either already closed or announced scheduled closures in 2025:
Alabama
- 2901 Morgan Rd., Bessemer
- 3303 Clairmont Ave., Birmingham
California
- 499 Haight St., San Francisco
- 1701 K St., Sacramento
Florida
- 3090 S. Monroe St., Tallahassee
- 13300 E. Colonial Dr., Orlando
- 2201 Edgewater Dr., Orlando
Georgia
- 439 Highland Blvd., Atlanta
Illinois
- 8639 S. Cicero Ave., Chicago
- 401 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago
- 2000 Skokie Valley Rd., Highland Park
Iowa
- 2420 Lincoln Way, Ames
- 215 Euclid Ave., Des Moines
Massachusetts
Michigan
- 28774 Gratiot Ave., Roseville
- 27700 Harper Ave., St. Clair Shores
Missouri
- 2435 Independence Ave., Kansas City
- 9433 Manchester Rd., Saint Louis
- 4531 Troost Ave., Kansas City
New York
- 955 Payne Ave., North Tonawanda
- 153 Central Ave., Albany
- 1026 Madison Ave., Albany
- 1241 Lexington Ave., New York
- 1654 Richmond Ave., Staten Island
North Carolina
- 201 W. 4th St., Winston-Salem
Ohio
- 10825 Kinsman Rd., Cleveland
Pennsylvania
- 125 E. Main St., Plymouth
Virginia
- 10390 Willard Way, Fairfax
Washington, D.C.
- 1117 10th St. NW
- 1100 4th St. SW
- 400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
- 1515 New York Ave. NE
- 4500 Wisconsin Ave. NW
- 7828 Georgia Ave. NW
Based on local news sources and social media, Newsweek identified additional CVS locations that have closed or announced closures since the beginning of the year:
Indiana
- 9550 Allisonville Rd., Indianapolis
Maryland
- 1000 S. Charles St., Federal Hill, Baltimore
- 7235 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda
- 34 N. Cannon Ave., Hagerstown, closing June 26, per The Herald-Mail
Texas
- 3890 Phelan Blvd., Beaumont, per The Beaumont Enterprise
What People Are Saying
A spokesperson for CVS told Newsweek: “Store closure decisions are based on several factors, including population shifts, consumer buying patterns, store and pharmacy density, pharmacy care access, and community health needs. We’re focused on ensuring we have the right kinds of stores and the right number of stores in the right locations. We’re closing locations strategically to better meet consumers’ health, wellness and pharmacy care needs – as announced more than three years ago – not in reaction to industry pressures.”
“Even after the realignment work, 85% of people in the U.S. will still live within 10 miles of a CVS Pharmacy,” they added.
What Happens Next
CVS confirmed to Newsweek that, despite the closures, it intends to open 30 new pharmacy locations in 2025, including those inside Target stores.
Meanwhile, a new law signed by Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders last month seeks to prevent Pharmacy Benefit Managers, third-party firms that manage prescription drug benefits, from owning pharmacies. CVS has warned that the legislation could impact its 23 locations in Arkansas.
