Walgreens unveils Chicago store with only two aisles and most products kept out of sight | CNN Business

The store, located on 2 East Roosevelt Road, at one point offered a typical Walgreens shopping experience – multiple aisles stacked with daily essentials, cosmetics, packaged snacks, health care needs and an in-store pharmacy. Last week, the same location reopened with a dramatically pared back look. Why? Walgreens says it’s a digital-first experimental store to benefit customers. It’s not designed to deter theft, Walgreens says.

In and around Chicago, drugstore chains, 7-Eleven convenience stores, Walmart, Target and department stores such as Macy’s, have repeatedly been targeted by organized retail crime sprees in which a group or groups of individuals steal large quantities of merchandise, said Robb Karr, president and CEO of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, an industry group representing retailers in the state, including Walgreens. Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill that went into effect Jan.

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