3. ๊ท€๊ฐ€ ํŠธ์ด๋Š” ์˜์–ด

25.01.16 Walgreens Announces Major Store Closures amid Cost-Cutting Efforts ์›”๊ทธ๋ฆฐ, ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ ์†์— ์ฃผ์š” ๋งค์žฅ ํ์‡„ ๋ฐœํ‘œ

ํ•˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ 2025. 1. 16. 12:09

The retail drugstore giant has revealed plans to close approximately 1,200 stores by 2027, with 500 closures scheduled for fiscal 2025 alone.

์•ฝ๊ตญ ์†Œ๋งค์  ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ ์ฒด์ธ ์›”๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์ด 2027๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ์•ฝ 1,200๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ํ์‡„ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์„ ๋ฐํ˜”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ์ค‘ 500๊ฐœ๋Š” 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„ ์—ฐ๋„ ๋‚ด์— ์ •๋ฆฌ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

* reveal : <์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ ธ ์žˆ๋˜ ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๋“ฑ>์„ ๋ฐํžˆ๋‹ค, ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋‹ค, ํญ๋กœํ•˜๋‹ค

โ€‹* fiscal : (์ •๋ถ€) ์žฌ์ •์˜

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This decision comes as the company reports better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings, surpassing Wall Street's projections.

์›”๊ฐ€์˜ ์ถ”์ •์„ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋„˜์–ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚˜์€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

* quarter : (๊ฒฐ์‚ฐ ๋“ฑ์˜) ๋ถ„๊ธฐ, ์‚ฌ๋ถ„๊ธฐ

โ€‹* surpass : โ‹ฏ์„ ๋Šฅ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋‹ค, โ‹ฏ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚˜๋‹ค

* projection : (์žฅ๋ž˜์˜) ์˜ˆ์ƒ, ์ถ”์ •

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The strategic move aims to trim the fat from its operations, focusing on profitable locations.

์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์€ ๋งค์žฅ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๋ ค๋Š” ์ „๋žต์  ์กฐ์น˜๋กœ ๋ถ„์„๋œ๋‹ค.

* strategic : ์ „๋žต์ ์ธ

* aim to do something : โ‹ฏํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‹ค, โ‹ฏํ•  ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด๋‹ค

* trim : <์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰โˆ™ํฌ๊ธฐ ๋“ฑ>์„ ์ค„์ด๋‹ค, <์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ๋“ฑ>์„ ์‚ญ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹ค

* profitable : <์‚ฌ์—…โˆ™์ œํ’ˆ ๋“ฑ์ด> ์ˆ˜์ต์ด ๋‚˜๋Š”, ์ด์ต์ด ๋‚˜๋Š”

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The company faces multiple challenges, including pressure from pharmacy reimbursements, reduced consumer spending, and complications in its primary care initiatives.

์›”๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์€ ์•ฝ๊ตญ ํ™˜๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€๋‹ด, ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ง€์ถœ ๊ฐ์†Œ, 1์ฐจ ์˜๋ฃŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ฌธ์ œ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด๋‹ค.

* face a challenge : ๋ฌธ์ œ[๋‚œ๊ด€, ๊ณผ์ œ]์— ์ง๋ฉดํ•˜๋‹ค

* pressure : (์ •์‹ ์ ์ธ) ์••๋ฐ•, ๋ถ€๋‹ด, ์ค‘์••

* reimbursement : (๋น„์šฉ ๋“ฑ์˜) ์ƒํ™˜

* complication : (์ผ์„ ์–ด๋ ต๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š”) ๋ฌธ์ ฏ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ, ์žฅ์• 

* initiative : ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ, ๊ตฌ์ƒ, ์ฃผ๋„๊ถŒ, ์ฃผ๋„

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Despite these hurdles, the business has successfully exceeded its cost-reduction target of $1 billion during 2024, implementing various efficiency measures such as store closures, workforce reductions, and the integration of artificial intelligence in supply chain management.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋‚œ๊ด€์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งค์žฅ ํ์‡„, ์ธ๋ ฅ ๊ฐ์ถ•, ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์— ์ธ๊ณต ์ง€๋Šฅ ํ†ตํ•ฉ ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํšจ์œจํ™” ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ๋‹จํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ 2024๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

* hurdle : (๋น„์œ ์ ์œผ๋กœ) ์žฅ์• (๋ฌผ), ๋‚œ๊ด€

* exceed : <ํŠน์ • ์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰>์„ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋‹ค, ๋„˜๋‹ค

* cost-reduction target : ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ

* implement : <๊ณ„ํšโˆ™์ •์ฑ… ๋“ฑ>์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๋‹ค, ์ดํ–‰ํ•˜๋‹ค

* measure : ์กฐ์น˜, ๋Œ€์ฑ…

* workforce : (ํŠน์ • ํšŒ์‚ฌโˆ™์‚ฐ์—…์˜) ์ด๊ทผ๋กœ์ž ์ˆ˜, ์ด ๋…ธ๋™์ธ๊ตฌ

* integration : (์‹œ์Šคํ…œโˆ™๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋“ฑ์˜) ํ†ตํ•ฉ, ์œตํ•ฉ

* supply chain : (์ƒํ’ˆ์˜) ์—ฐ์‡„์ ์ธ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋ฐ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๊ณผ์ •

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Growth was reported across all three business divisions during the fourth quarter, with notable expansion in healthcare services and specialty pharmacy operations.

4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์„ธ ๊ฐœ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์˜๋ฃŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋ฐ ์ „๋ฌธ ์•ฝ๊ตญ ์šด์˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ํ™•์žฅ์ด ๋‘๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์กŒ๋‹ค.

* notable : ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ, ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ, ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ

โ€‹* specialty : ์ „๋ฌธ (๋ถ„์•ผ), ์ „๊ณต

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The international segment also showed positive results, particularly in UK operations.

๊ตญ์ œ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋„ ํŠนํžˆ ์˜๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.

* segment : ๋ถ€๋ถ„, ๋ถ€๋ฌธ

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Looking ahead, the company projects revenue between $147-151 billion for the coming fiscal year, maintaining a cautiously optimistic outlook despite ongoing industry challenges.

์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์›”๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ ํšŒ๊ณ„ ์—ฐ๋„์— 1,470~1,510์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์—…๊ณ„์˜ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๋˜ ๋‚™๊ด€์ ์ธ ์ „๋ง์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

* look ahead : ์•ž[๋ฏธ๋ž˜]์„ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ค

* revenue : (๊ธฐ์—…โˆ™์กฐ์ง ๋“ฑ์˜) ์ˆ˜์ž…, ์ˆ˜์ต

* cautiously : ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ, ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ

* optimistic : ๋‚™๊ด€์ ์ธ, ๋‚™์ฒœ์ ์ธ

* outlook : (๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ) ์ „๋ง

* ongoing : ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ, ์ง€์†์ ์ธ

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