One in six MinuteClinics to close for ’seasonal’ reasons

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on March 10, 2009 at 7:33 am

Anytime you’re being compared to the dot-com bubble, things can’t be that good. The Wall Street Journal updates us on what appears to be a re-examination of the retail health care market.

“For those in the industry, the nagging problem is what to do with the extra capacity we have in the off season, and unless that problem gets solved this industry will continue to have a major structural weakness,” Tom Charland, a consultant and chief executive of Merchant Medicine, told Dow Jones.

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Tags: CVS Caremark Corp., Merchant Medicine LLC, Minute Clinic LLC, retail health care  

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