[February 25, 2009] Fewer 24-hour pharmacies: Walgreens cuts availability hours at 4 of 11 stores Tweet (Arizona Daily Star, The (Tucson) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Feb. 25--Tucsonans in need of late-night prescriptions will have fewer places to go beginning Sunday. Four of the 11 Tucson-area Walgreens stores that feature 24-hour pharmacies are reducing their pharmacy hours, company spokesman Robert Elfinger said. The affected stores are at East 22nd Street and North Alvernon Way, East Broadway and North Camino Seco, West Valencia and South Midvale Park roads and North Oracle Road and East Rancho Vistoso Boulevard. Those stores' pharmacies will be open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays, while the stores themselves will remain open 24 hours a day, Elfinger said. "We still have more 24-hour pharmacies than any other drugstore chain in Tucson," he said. "We'll still have seven in the Tucson area, and that will definitely be enough." The change was based on economic conditions, Elfinger said. "Dividing up the prescriptions filled at those times among the other seven stores, we feel, is a better business practice," he said. Elfinger said Tucson is the only market in which Walgreens is currently changing pharmacy hours. Tucson's only other 24-hour pharmacy, a CVS store at 3785 W. Ina Road, does not plan to adjust its hours, a store employee said Tuesday. Still open 24/7 Walgreens pharmacies that remain open 24 hours a day: --605 W. Ajo Way --3180 N. Campbell Ave. --6767 E. Broadway Blvd. --7111 E. Golf Links Road --4685 E. Grant Road --3800 W. Ina Road --1880 E. Irvington Road Contact reporter Brian J. Pedersen at 573-4224 or [email protected]. To see more of The Arizona Daily Star, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.azstarnet.com. Copyright (c) 2009, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]