Store count seems to have peaked in 2018. Yes that data goes to 2021 but I doubt it got better after that.

https://schaeffer.usc.edu/research/pharmacy-closures-united-...

The bigger thing is consolidation and independents being replaced by bigger fish because their leverage is very very low.

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gamblor956 16 hours ago | parent [-]

If you read the data you would have observed that a large chunk of those store closures were by the big retail pharmacy chains, which blows your central thesis out of the water.

	▲	Scoundreller 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe in absolute numbers but the situation for the ma and pa operations is worse: “Independent pharmacies, often excluded from networks by pharmacy benefit managers, were more than twice as likely to face closure compared to chain pharmacies.”