Bi-Mart pharmacy won't reopen under Walgreens name

JAYSON JACOBY, Baker City Herald, Ore.
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Oct. 18—The pharmacy at the Bi-Mart store in Baker City is scheduled to close Nov. 9, and it will not be reopened under the Walgreens name.

Helen Loennig, pharmacist and pharmacy manager at the store, wrote to the Baker City Herald that when she interviewed with Walgreens, "they made it clear the closest Walgreens would be Ontario."

Bi-Mart announced on Sept. 30 that Walgreens was buying Bi-Mart's pharmacy inventories and patient prescription files at 56 stores in Oregon, Idaho and Washington.

Walgreens officials said the company would operate pharmacies, under the Walgreens name, inside some Bi-Mart stores.

Loennig said the Baker City store is not among those.

The closure is limited to the pharmacy; the Baker City Bi-Mart store will remain open.

A sign posted at the pharmacy in the Baker City store states that Nov. 9 is the last day of business for the pharmacy, and that the store will help patients transfer their prescriptions to Safeway, Rite Aid or Albertsons.