Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) has accused pharmaceutical conglomerate Walgreens of “divesting from Black and brown communities” after the company announced another store closure in a predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood in Massachusetts.
“When a Walgreens leaves a neighborhood, they disrupt the entire community and they take with them baby formula, diapers, asthma inhalers, life-saving medications and, of course, jobs,” Pressley said on the House floor this week. “These closures are not arbitrary and they are not innocent. They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination.”
Walgreens announced in June that it would close 150 locations around the nation amid lower earnings, CNN reported at the time.