Tuesday May 7, 2024 | COLWOOD, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
The London Drugs store is now open in Colwood. It’s the retail store chain’s outlet in the west shore of Greater Victoria, located at Colwood Cornesr (1907 Sooke Road at the corner of Goldstream Avenue).
The store had been closed since April 28 when the London Drugs store chain responded to a cybersecurity attack across all of its 79 stores.
The next nearest store is at Tillicum Mall in Saanich which opened two days ago. The store at Saanich Centre at 3995 Quadra Street is also now open.
The store at 911 Yates Street in downtown Victoria was the first in the capital region to be reopened a few days ago.
Here is the list of London Drugs stores now fully operational. The list includes 36 stores in the BC lower mainland, 10 stores on Vancouver Island (including Gibsons), and six in the BC Interior.
There are 79 stores (previously reported by most media as 80 stores) in the entire chain across four western provinces: BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
What’s open in all stores:
As posted by London Drugs on May 6:
• London Drugs Pharmacists are on-site at all store locations during normal store pharmacy hours to assist with emergency refill prescriptions and other urgent care. Due to connectivity issues, the pharmacy will not be able to fill new prescriptions currently.
• Canada Post locations within stores are accessible.
• The Insurance Services Call Centre is open and helping customers with insurance needs and Autoplan transactions.
• Optical locations are expected to be open by the end of the day, May 6.
===== RELATED:
- No new prescriptions can be filled yet at London Drugs (May 6, 2024)
- London Drugs gradual recovery: 23 stores reopened including one in downtown Victoria (May 5, 2024)
- Gradual recovery for London Drugs: 14 stores reopened so far (May 4, 2024)
- Day 5 closure for London Drugs due to cybersecurity challenge (May 2, 2024)
- London Drugs phone lines re-open after 4-day cybersecurity challenge but stores still closed (May 1, 2024)
- London Drugs stores unexpectedly closed Sunday April 28 (April 28 & 29, 2024)
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