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The corner drugstore has been a fixture of American life for generations, but the map of where a prescription can actually be filled is thinning fast. Rite Aid has exited retail entirely after bankruptcy, and Walgreens is continuing to close locations. For older adults who depend on a nearby pharmacy for daily medications, the result…
The reshaping of Medicare Advantage that hit millions of older Americans this year was not a quiet trim around the edges. As the largest insurers walked away from markets they judged unprofitable, an estimated 2.6 million enrollees found their plan simply gone for 2026. Insurers have signaled another round of exits for 2027, which means…
The three largest names in Medicare Advantage are trimming their plans again, and this time the pullback is shaping up as a broad one. UnitedHealthcare, Humana and Aetna are all set to exit markets they consider unprofitable for the 2027 plan year, a retreat that analysts expect to reach hundreds of counties once the details…
A Pennsylvania metals company has agreed to pay $3.66 million to 51 workers after federal labor regulators found it unlawfully kept striking employees from returning to their jobs. The package is unusually large for a single plant, and it includes something most workplace cases never touch: more than a million dollars in future wages for…
The retreat from Medicare Advantage that began last year is widening, and the 2027 plan season is shaping up as one of the most disruptive in memory for older Americans. At least four major insurers are trimming plans, exiting counties, or dropping large blocks of members for next year, and they are pointing to the…
Kroger, the largest traditional supermarket operator in the United States, is working through a plan to close about 60 of its stores. The retailer disclosed the decision in June and has already gone dark at dozens of locations. For the neighborhoods losing a store, the change removes more than a place to buy groceries, because…
Amazon is eliminating roughly 16,000 corporate jobs, a cut it began rolling out in early 2026 that ranks among the largest single reductions of the year. Combined with an earlier round, the company has now trimmed close to 30,000 white-collar positions since late 2025, touching teams across cloud computing, retail, human resources, and media. The…
Walgreens is thinning its store network again, and this round reaches into neighborhoods that have leaned on the drugstore for decades. The second-largest pharmacy chain in the country expects to close roughly 100 locations in 2026 and has already gone further behind the scenes, closing a major distribution center. When a store shuts, the prescriptions…
One of the best-known names in American mattresses is now reorganizing under court protection, a turn that puts hundreds of stores and thousands of livelihoods under a cloud of uncertainty. The company says its retail locations remain open and its operations continue, but a bankruptcy filing of this size reshapes what customers, employees, and creditors…
Walgreens is not disappearing from the corner, but the pharmacy chain is still trimming its footprint in 2026, and the closures keep landing hardest on neighborhoods where an older resident already has to plan a trip to fill a prescription. The company now expects to shut fewer than 100 stores this year, a fraction of…
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