Walgreens can't catch a break. Back in 2024, Walgreens announced that it was closing a fourth location in Boston in a high-crime area. Rep. Ayanna Pressley at the time called pharmacy closings "disruptive, life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination." In 2025 in San Francisco, a Walgreens store manager was convicted of assaulting a shoplifter who stole shampoo. Just this January, a Senate candidate running as a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation to unseat Ed Markey expressed his desire for the government to seize the top 100 corporations, including CVS and Walgreens, and make them public property.
"Six Walgreens have closed on [Chicago's] South Side during the past year," reports ABC 7 Eyewitness News. "One alderman calls it pharmaceutical genocide."
Pharmaceutical genocide. That alderman is William Hall, who wants Walgreens to face charges of "corporate abandonment" in light of another location closing on June 4 because of high levels of theft and violent incidents.
Chicago Alderman William Hall wants to see Walgreens face charges for closing (over a shoplifting crisis) pic.twitter.com/lZgZRvBdJ7
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 4, 2026
Maybe stop shoplifting, and the stores would stay open.
So the people who are not providing a safe environment for their citizens now wants to go after a business that has had enough of lawlessness. Unreal
— platospupil (@platospupil) May 4, 2026
How about charging the thugs who force businesses to “abandon” ghetto neighborhoods? They’re the ones harming your elders.
— Harold ☘️ (@Nikk1066) May 4, 2026
Oh look… it's another victim of their own policies.
— Nick Freitas (@NickJFreitas) May 4, 2026
Chicago Alderman William Hall wants to see Walgreens face charges for properly running their business.
— Thomas_Paine_6771 (@ThomasPain_6771) May 4, 2026
Hall denies there is any crime problem in Chicago. The people in Chicago laugh at his insanity.
Apparently, unbeknownst to Hall actions have consequences. He can’t comprehend what a for profit corporation is. Walgreens has a fiduciary duty to its shareholders, not to mention the safety of its employees. Hall’s constituents created this problem. Cry me a river.
— ATX MAN TX (@ATXMANATX) May 4, 2026
The citizens (not all) did this to Walgreens
— Polish Sausage 🇺🇲 (@Spacedit29) May 4, 2026
Now the Alderman wants Walgreens to sacrifice their employees and their stock.
Because Chicago can't get their crime under control.
Chicago Alderman William Hall is asking for the wrong people to face charges.
— Planet Of Memes (@PlanetOfMemes) May 4, 2026
It should be a crime for candidates to be this stupid.
— Citizen Caller (@CitizenCallerUS) May 4, 2026
There's no law against "corporate abandonment" but pretending there is shows his communist outlook.
Where is "first degree abandonment" a law, exactly?
— Bob Dog (@BobDog19006) May 4, 2026
Businesses stay in business as long as they earn at least a minimal profit. When that becomes impossible, stores close, whether pissant local politicians approve or not.
The only laws involved here are the Laws of Economics.
Maybe he can convince Mayor Brandon Johnson to pull a Zohran Mamdani and open city-owned drugstores.
These idiots really don’t understand business. You can’t order businesses around. Cities break their covenants with businesses by failing to protect them from robberies and shoplifting and they wonder why businesses close.
— Thomas John (@ThomasJohn65936) May 4, 2026
If shoplifting were a crime in Chicago, these problems wouldn't even exist.
— EleventySigma CygnusAtratus (@eleventysigma) May 4, 2026
Some cities are even passing legislation not to prosecute shoplifting under a certain dollar amount, like $700.
Sometimes, people just like to hear themselves belch out words, even though they are ridiculous and stupid. William Hall is just such a man. Notice he doesn't say anything about the robbers and thugs that forced the Walgreens to close. Not only is he a moron, but he's a liar too.
— John Bulkeley (@bulkeley_john) May 4, 2026
You can't force a business to stay open … not yet, anyway. Let's see if he actually sues Walgreens for "corporate abandonment."
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