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."
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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 one of the markets in which Walgreens is changing pharmacy hours. Walgreens had previously reduced the pharmacy hours of a few 24-hour locations in Florida.
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