According to the store manager, the CVS store at 625 E Main Street in Little Falls will close on March 19, 2025.
A company statement read, “We’ve made the difficult decision to close the CVS Pharmacy at 625 East Main Street in Little Falls on March 19. All prescriptions will be transferred to the nearby CVS Pharmacy at 95 Beaver Street in Cooperstown to ensure patients have uninterrupted access to pharmacy care. Patients can always choose to fill their prescriptions at any CVS Pharmacy or the pharmacy of their choice if another is more convenient. All colleagues are being offered comparable roles within the company.”
“Maintaining access to pharmacy services in the communities we serve is an important factor we consider when making store closure decisions. Other factors include local market dynamics, population shifts, a community’s store density, and ensuring there are other geographic access points to meet the needs of the community,” the statement continued.
“We’ll continue to provide the community with outstanding service at our Cooperstown CVS Pharmacy location. We also offer several delivery options for customers and patients with eligible prescriptions, including 1-2-day delivery and on-demand (same-day) delivery (within three hours), through CVS.com and the CVS Health app to provide additional convenient access to household essentials, health and wellness products, and prescription medications.”
CVS Pharmacy was established in 1963 in Lowell, Massachusetts, under the Consumer Value Store name. At one point, it had more than 9,600 locations across the United States.
Drugstore pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS are struggling to stay afloat. CVS has closed almost 900 stores since the spring of 2022 and has indicated that it will close an additional 270 stores in 2025.
One of CVS’s most significant issues is that it owns the health insurance company Aetna, which has been struggling.
Recently, CVS also lost a few major clients who used its CVS Caremark to provide drug coverage for its employees through CVS pharmacy locations. Organizations like Tyson Foods and Blue Shield of California decided to go in a different direction rather than have CVS provide drug coverage for employees.
CVS isn’t alone in shutting down pharmacy locations. Other major pharmacy chains have also announced store closings.
Rite Aid started shutting down 800 locations nationwide after the retailer filed for bankruptcy.
Walgreens has also struggled recently and announced its own store closures. The company slashed prices on over 1,000 items to bring back consumers stung by inflated prices.
Wait till the news gets out about Empire Fiberglass closing. I need to get the popcorn ready for the comments on that one!
Yeah, that will put all of 9 guys out of work and 9 more customers for the opening call at Lock 17 aka Ed & Buds.
Can we transfer our prescriptions to Kinneys. I am 83 and not going to Cooperstown to pick, up a prescription.
Yes you can! Just call your doctor and ask them to transfer your perscription to Kinneys in Little Falls.
All you have to do is bring your prescription bottle to Kinney’s pharmacy and they do all the work.
Why are they letting Little Falls go down the tube. The want money to build up this and that but let everything go you know where.only city in Herkimer county!
I am in my 40s and recently moved back to the area due to my ailing health. It is sad to see that the city keeps doubling down on things that don’t work, rather than trying a single new thing to revitalize. Little Falls is suffocating under the weight of its own nostalgia
No idea what you are rambling about, what is the city “doubling down” on ??
CVS is making money in the pharmacy, but the “front of house” is losing buckets of cash and with the lease up there is no sense in throwing more money down the drain.
Sadly Little Falls is land locked. There is no space to build any new commercial areas without tearing down residential areas.