Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA)

[Prudent Capitalist]

Say what? Walgreen's is now closing the pharmacies in stores in the US for an hour each day "so the pharmacists can eat lunch". Doesn't make sense to me. Why not eat in shifts and schedule breaks so as not to have to close the pharmacy departments entirely. Or, if there is no pharmacist, then leave staff to deliver scripts that have already been filled to customers, but maybe that wouldn't be permitted if the licensed professional was not actually present in the department. Does anyone know whether WBA's pharmacists in the US are unionized? That would be the only thing I could think of that could be behind this curious move, i.e. something negotiated in a new union contract, etc.