The closures are part of the “turnaround plan” the financially beleaguered chain announced last year as an effort to shore up its retail pharmacy operations.

Walgreens is closing up shop in Chittenango. A spokesperson for Walgreens confirmed to NewsChannel 9 that the store located at 1365 West Genesee Street in Chittenango is set to close on April 30. The drugstore chain previously announced in October that they would be closing 1,

Walgreens, whose parent company recently announced it's going private, is closing another St. Louis-area store, this time in the city's Ellendale neighborhood. The Walgreens at 2310 McCausland Ave. at Manchester Avenue will permanently close April 21,

U.S. health officials are asking retailers to pull a small number of acne creams from their store shelves after government testing found they contain slightly elevated levels of a chemical associated with cancer.

The products are being recalled by the FDA for possible "benzene contamination." Acne creams from retailers including Walgreens, La Roche-Posay and Proactiv have been voluntarily recalled due to elevated levels of a potentially cancer-causing agent.

Some popular acne treatments have been pulled from store shelves. The FDA has voluntarily recalled six products from companies like Proactive, La Roche-Posay, and Walgreens. It says testing showed elevated levels of benzene,