As Walmart closes stores in Chicago, community leaders raise concerns about health care, pharmacy access
Kimberly Jackson-Miller, a resident of Chicago’s Burnside neighborhood, has been a customer of the Walmart in Chatham since it opened more than a decade ago.
The Chatham Walmart Supercenter, along with three of the company’s Neighborhood Markets — in Grand Boulevard, Little Village and Lakeview — will close Sunday, a decision Walmart announced on Tuesday.
Walmart cited the stores’ unprofitability for its decision to close them, saying they lose “tens of millions of dollars a year” and that their yearly losses “nearly doubled in just the last five years.”
Jackson-Miller has diabetes and relies on insulin, which she takes twice a day. Walmart is her pharmacy of choice.
“This is the best pharmacy I’ve ever had my medication sent to,” she said in the parking lot outside the Supercenter Thursday. “So it’s hard for me to adjust for them closing it down.”
This will be the second time Jackson-Miller.
