Rabbi Katz who signed a "heter meah rabbanim" to a Monsey Get-Refuser Retracts His Position! Case now reaches Israel!

This has been loosely translated from Hebrew! 

The Get-Refuser came to Israel before Sukkos for a short visit,  his wife an Israeli citizen found out about this and managed to get an order not allowing him to leave the country until he gives her a proper divorce! 

His family came to Israel to be with him for Sukkos, after they realized that their dear beloved Get-Refuser would not be able to leave the country and may even face Jail, even though he is an American citizen! He is already married to another woman with the help of a bunch of rabbanim who got paid to sign a heter meah rabbanim! 

So the husband's family started a campaign, hanging and distributing peshqvils all over Yerushalayim, on the eve of Sukkot, which was written and signed by three rabbanim explaining on what basis they gave the "heter meah rabbanim" ," thus dragging Rabbi Katz the Tosher Dayen in Monsey into this mess!

 Rabbi Katz had sent letters to the Bais Din previously, stating that he was retracting and acknowledging the fact that he made a mistake and that it was really forbidden to have given the permit of "heter meah rabbanim" to the get-refuser!

 His family, the enablers, want to prove to the frum public in Yerushalyim that the heter meah rabbanim was done according to halacha!

Family members tried to get the U.S. Embassy involved but found out that there was nothing they could do because the woman is an Israeli citizen and has every right to sue him in Israel, and he will be forced to stay in Israel as long as there is no solution to the problem. 

Attempts to argue that the Israeli court and the rabbinical court do not have jurisdiction to hear this case have been rejected, and it is now clear to them that they will be forced to go through the process in Israel, which means that without convincing the Israeli rabbis that he has a legitimate heter he will be forced to stay in Israel, and it is possible that at some point when it turns out that he is the actual cause of this situation he will even go to prison as happened in another case. where the husband spent a long time in prison, even though they were both residents of the United States

Many askanim have gotten involved in the matter because this situation is not getting any better but getting more complicated because the wife has had enough of these rabbanim who just sign without knowing the issues just to get a couple of thousand dollars, and decided to file lawsuits against them in the US!

 The problem according to those in the know is that family members on the husband's side will not agree to enter any discussions unless the wife gives him millions of dollars. The question is, that now that these rogue rabbanim who signed the heter are getting sued, if the  new legal situation will create pressure on them to withdraw their signatures and join Rabbi Katz to say that the whole heter was a fraud!

The Rabbinate of Israel has already ruled that there can be no talk of money at all, the divorce must be given to the woman without ant strings attached , and the husband must meet all her other demands.

 A group of hundreds of women are demonstrating in front of their husbands' house, and others are now starting protests and exposing the rabbis who signed the heter!

Ramat Beit Shemesh Rabbis Goldstein and Kupshitz Prohibit Going to MBD Concert on Chol Hamoed Sukkos!

Why you ask?

Answer: Because it is being Sponsored by the City of Beit Shemesh! 

The concert by MBD will be separated by gender but that doesn't stop these 
"Kill Joys" from prohibiting people from going there! 

The MBD concert tickets are going for 20 Shekel and the rest is being sponsored by the city! 

6,000 tickets have already been sold, and there are only a few left! 

I wasn't planning to go, but now that these "English Speaking" Rabbis have issued a "fatwa" I decided to go! 

The "Fatwa" reads even though the concert is separating the genders, it has been prohibited by all "Gedoilei Yisrael" though only these two English Speaking Rabbis, Rabbi Goldstein and Rabbi Kupshitz,  signed the Kol Korah! 

The Chabad concert featured below also sponsored by the city, is also prohibited by these extremist Rabbis! 

My kindergarten teacher harbored the Nazis' Angel of Death - and was haunted by her secrets

One of Betina Anton’s earliest memories growing up in Brazil in the 1980s is of her kindergarten teacher, the kindly ‘Tante’ Liselotte.

But the slim German woman with permed hair and a halting Portuguese accent - who she lovingly referred to as ‘aunt’ - was hiding a horrific secret, one that would take decades to unravel.

Liselotte Bossert and her husband Wolfram harbored the notorious ‘Angel of Death’ Josef Mengele - arguably the most wanted Nazi of all time.

Mengele lived with them and their two children - who called him 'Uncle Peter' - at their home in the Brooklin neighborhood of São Paulo for 10 years, enjoying barbecues and taking regular vacations to the beach, all while being hunted for his evil war crimes.

It was said that the doctor enjoyed his sadistic work - selecting which prisoners would die in the gas chambers and who might live another day - so much, he would even show up on his days off.

A step-by-step rundown of how Israel eliminated Yahya Sinwar

 

The drone spotted a man sitting in a chair.

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar was taken out in a chance encounter Wednesday after a relentless yearlong hunt — which took Israeli troops by such surprise that one of the soldiers involved in the operation even joked about it.

The Israel Defense Forces had been hunting Sinwar, 61, since the terror organization’s deadly attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

In recent weeks, the Israel Defense Forces believed their top target was hiding out in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah — but his exact whereabouts were unknown until soldiers sifting through the rubble in the wake of this week’s strike found an eerily familiar-looking corpse.

News quickly began to spread that the mastermind behind the single deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust was dead.

But it seemed so unlikely that the terror chief was taken out in a routine raid by chance, that troops in the IDF unit that unknowingly opened fire on Sinwar joked about it.

“When we heard he was killed, we joked around saying, ‘How crazy would it be if it was us?’” a soldier involved in the Rafah operation told Israel’s Channel 12.

The remains were later confirmed to Sinwar through DNA testing.

Here is how the luckiest terror mission played out.

A regular patrol

The IDF believed Sinwar was hiding out in Tal al-Sultan.

A unit from the Israel Defense Forces’ 828th Bislamach Brigade was patrolling the Tal al-Sultan area of Rafah on Wednesday.

The unit is a training battalion that was on a regular patrol in Rafah searching for Hamas tunnels

Drone strikes Netanyahu’s home

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed “nothing will deter us, we will keep going until victory,” after a drone struck his vacation home in northern Israel Saturday as the military continued its operations in Lebanon and Gaza.

Netanyahu, 74, was not in the area when the drone was fired from Lebanon at his residence in Caesarea, his spokesperson said.

The drone strike on the prime minister’s residence comes just days after Israel killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

The drone hit an undisclosed building, officials explained. There were no casualties.

The attack was not immediately claimed by Hezbollah, which has launched rockets and drones into Israel for over a year, including more than 100 shot over the border from Lebanon Saturday.

“Iran tried to eliminate the Prime Minister of Israel,” one senior Israeli official said, according to Israel’s Channel 12.

Two other drones that crossed into Israeli territory were intercepted, according to the military.

Drone Footage Showing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s final moments before he was eliminated.

 

A suffering Sinwar is seen attempting to throw a stick at the drone just mere moments before he was killed by multiple tank shells. The body was only identified to be Sinwar some 12 hours after this footage was captured.

Harris’ Fox News interview proves she lacks answers — because she lacks beliefs

 

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A few months into Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential run, her handlers faced a dilemma: Should they continue cocooning the candidate or unleash her on the public?

Both options came with serious political risks.

Sure, Democrats could keep pretending Harris was a generational talent, but her refusal to sit down for an interview, much less give a press conference, was eroding this fantasy.

On the other hand, as her handlers surely understood, the more people hear from Harris, the more concerned they tend to get.

Indeed, Harris is a thermonuclear platitude dispenser. Few people in American history have expended so many words to say so little.

Her turns of phrase are often so cartoonishly ludicrous, they should be used in college textbooks to explain to students what a “tautology” is.

After watching Fox News’ Brett Baier interview Harris Wednesday, it is clearer than ever that extemporaneous speaking isn’t Harris’ strong suit.

The presidential candidate has an uncanny ability to respond to straightforward questions in circuitous, mind-bending arrays of irrelevant non sequiturs.

Here’s the awkward moment Kamala Harris’ aides shut down Fox News interview with Bret Baier

 

Fox News anchor Bret Baier recounted the awkward moment that cut his interview with Kamala Harris short Wednesday night, when the vice president’s staff gave him a “hard wrap” despite her late arrival.

“Madam Vice President, they’re wrapping me very hard here,” Baier interjected a little more than 20 minutes into the tough questioning, adding that there still were “a lot of things that people want to learn about you and your policies.”

That included stances Harris has distanced herself from since her first presidential run in 2019 — in many cases without explanation.

Harris, 59, continued to talk over Baier, 54, and urged supporters to head to her campaign website before the two parted abruptly.

“Madam Vice President, they’re giving me a hard wrap here,” Baier repeated.

“And I — well, I thank you for the time,” she said sheepishly.

“I thank you for the time,” he replied.

“It’s good to meet you,” she added.

Baier, Fox News’ chief political anchor and host of the 6 p.m. “Special Report” program, later said multiple Harris campaign aides were signaling him to end the interview — halting the tough questioning minutes before the half-hour mark.

The veep showed up 17 minutes late, Baier told members of the “Special Report” panel after the sit-down aired, but members of her staff weren’t willing to make up the lost time.

“I’m talking like four people waving their hands like ‘It’s got to stop,'” the anchor revealed. “I had to dismount there at the end.”

“There are so many things and maybe she should do more of these,” Baier added, referring to Harris’ avoidance of pointed queries about her own record.

Baier pressed Harris on her administration’s permissive immigration policies, her calling Iran the top adversary of the US — and whether she concealed President Biden’s cognitive decline.

The vice president declined to answer most questions about the border and policies that released at least 6 million migrants — plus 1.7 known “gotaways” — into the country.

Harris also tried to turn the focus back on Trump when asked about the relaxing of sanctions on Iran, which critics say enabled the Tehran regime to fund terrorist proxies like Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.

When queried about when she “first notice[d] that President Biden’s mental faculties appeared diminished,” Harris also redirected.

“I think the American people have a concern about Donald Trump, which is why the people who know him best, including leaders of our national security community, have all spoken out,” the veep declared.

She only praised Biden’s “judgment and experience … in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people,” before deflecting: “Bret, Joe Biden is not on the ballot.”

Netanyahu: 'This is the beginning of the day after Hamas in Gaza'

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement on Thursday following the elimination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

"Citizens of Israel, a year ago, we celebrated Sukkot. At the same exact time, Yahya Sinwar dealt with planning the October 7th massacre. I stand before you today to notify you that Yahya Sinwar was eliminated. The one who committed the worst massacre in our nation's history since the Holocaust, the mass murderer who murdered thousands of Israelis and abducted hundreds of our citizens, was killed today by our heroic soldiers," Netanyahu opened.

"Today, as we promised we would do, we settled the score with him. Today evil was dealt a blow, but the mission before us has not been completed. To the dear families of the hostages, I say: This is an important moment in the war. We will continue with full force to bring your loved ones, who are our loved ones, home. This is our top obligation. This is my top obligation. To the residents of Gaza, I say: Sinwar ruined your lives. He told you that he was a lion, but in fact, he hid in a dark tunnel - and he was eliminated as he fled in fear from our soldiers. His elimination is an important milestone in the fall of Hamas' evil rule. I want to say again as clearly as possible: Hamas won't rule Gaza anymore. This is the beginning of the day after Hamas, this is an opportunity for you, residents of Gaza, to finally break free of its tyranny.

"To the terrorists of Hamas, I say: your leaders are fleeing and are being eliminated. I call on all those who hold our hostages: those who put down their weapons and return the hostages - we will allow them to leave and live. And in the same sense, I say: whoever hurts the hostages will get what they deserve. The return of our hostages is an opportunity to reach all of our goals and it brings the end of the war closer. To the nations of the region, I say: in Gaza, Beirut, and across the entire region - darkness is retreating and light is rising. Deif, Haniyeh, Sinwar, Nasrallah, Mohsen, Aqil, and many of their partners are no longer. I call on you, the nations of the region: we face a great opportunity to stop the axis of evil and to create a different future. A future of peace, a future of prosperity for the entire region. Together we can push away the curse and promote the blessing."

Netanyahu added: "Now it is clear to all, in Israel and the world, why we insisted not to end the war. Why did we insist, against all the pressure, to go into Rafah, Hamas' fortified stronghold where Siwar and many mass murderers hid? I wish to express my great appreciation to the soldiers of the IDF and ISA and their commander for their determined and brave work. There's no one better than them."

"Today we again made clear what happens to those who harm us. Today we again showed the world the victory of the good over the bad. But the war, my friends, is not over yet. It is difficult and it takes a heavy toll. I wish to express my condolences to the families who lost loved ones. I wish to embrace the families of our fallen heroes. Their supreme sacrifice, including in recent days, brings us closer to victory. As King David said: 'I pursued my enemies and wiped them out, I did not turn back till I destroyed them.' Citizens of Israel, we are in the war of revival. Difficult challenges lay before us. We must be patient, united, brave, and stand strong. Together we will fight, and with G-d's help, together we will win," he concluded.

Chareidie Knesset Members' Irresponsible Ultimatum To Hold Up the State Budget Necessary for War!

 

Smotrich's message to the Arrogant Chareidie MKs!

Between Yom Kippur and Sukkot, between the building of spirit and the building of material of the people of Israel, days I mark with holy awe, time and again, from family to family, from condolence to condolence, of our heroic soldiers, supreme righteous ones who fell while defending the people and the land and no one can compare to them.

On the eve of the Sukkot holiday, after more difficult but necessary days for the people of Israel, I read with heart-piercing pain the words of some of my colleagues from the haredi parties, my partners in the coalition, about the sacred duty of service in the Israel Defense Force.

Service that in no way contradicts Torah study and fear of heaven, as the thousands of soldiers from the religious Zionist sect who combine study and sword heroically and sanctify God's name prove.

Service in the IDF is a duty, a right, and a mitzvah. Certainly not a problem. The neglect by some of our haredi brethren of this duty, whatever the reasons and concerns may be, during wartime and in general, is an injustice that requires fundamental correction. In this matter, we are in historic days that will allow us to make this correction, and so it shall be, with God's help and determination.

I also strongly reject attempts to set an irresponsible ultimatum for the approval of the state budget necessary for war and the resilience of the economy.

"All of Israel is worthy of sitting in one sukkah" says the Gemara in the Tractate Sukkah. I pray and expect that we all know how to enter together under the Israeli sukkah and with God’s help, together we will triumph.

Sinwar Eliminated!

Sinwar's Dead Body

IDF Sending Him To His Virgins

 Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar was eliminated on Wednesday after a tank fired at a building in Rafah which was thought to contain terrorists.

After that, infantry from the 450th Battalion raided and searched the building. During the searches, the forces found Sinwar's body.

In the building where he was eliminated, there were no signs of the presence of hostages in the area. On the terrorists' bodies, the forces found cash and false ID cards.

It was reported that the confrontation with Sinwar was by chance.

The fact that he was not in the building with hostages negates the intelligence community which assumed he and the other Hamas officials had surrounded themselves with a human shield of hostages. It is believed that the hostages that surrounded the Hamas leader were those who were murdered in September.

Forces from the Bislah Brigade were those who suspected that there were terrorists in the building and a tank from the tank commanders' course fired on it.

Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant hinted at the elimination in a post on X in which he quoted the verse from Leviticus: "'You shall give chase to your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.' We will reach every terrorist and we will eliminate him." Along side the post, Gallant added a picture with an empty space between Mohammad Deif and Hassan Nasrallah.

Israel Has Weapons Not From the US that Will be Used Against Iran

 

Israel spent billions to prepare for strike in Iran, developed dedicated munitions that US refused to sell or doesn’t have; this includes long-range missiles fired by fighter jets & bunker busters, Walla News reports;

 some Israeli munitions may still be undisclosed, report says.

Funny: Woke Pro-Hamas Protester Rips Down Greek Flags, Mistakes Them for Israeli Flags

A protester in Montclair, NJ, sparked a bizarre incident outside a Greek restaurant when she tore down the establishment’s Greek flags, mistaking them for Israeli flags. 

The woman came in shouting “FREE PALESTINE, THIS IS GENOCIDE” and accused the restaurant owners of supporting genocide, yelling at them before realizing her mistake. Only after the staff explained the difference between the two flags did she calm down and apologize.

Netanyahu Smacks Down Macron's Idiotic Remark that "Israel was founded by a UN Decision"

 

Macron: "Israel was founded by a UN decision, so Netanyahu cannot disregard UN resolutions."

Netanyahu responds to Macron:

"It wasn’t the UN decision that established the State of Israel, but the victory won by the blood of fighters, many of whom were Holocaust survivors and victims of the Vichy regime."

Columbia prof Shai Davidai banned from campus for ‘harassing’ school officials over anti-Israel protesters

 

Outspoken Columbia business professor Shai Davidai was banned from campus after he clashed with rowdy anti-Israel protesters and confronted school officials last week during the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state.

The Ivy League school sent Davidai’s lawyer a letter stating that the professor’s access to school grounds was cut off as of 3 p.m. Tuesday because Columbia leaders claimed he harassed at least five faculty members during the raucous scene, violating school rules. 

“Threats of intimidation, harassment or other threatening behavior by University employees, including faculty members, will not be tolerated,” the school said in the letter that Davidai provided to The Post. 

The Israeli native, who is conducting research and not teaching this semester, is not suspended and can return to campus after he completes workplace conduct training and complies with school policy, Columbia said in its letter. 

He can still advise students remotely, the school stated.

University officials cited videos taken by Davidai and posted on social media that showed him challenging school leaders to rein in raucous anti-Israel demonstrators to no avail as he came face-to-face with some keffiyeh-clad students.

In one video, he and Patrick Oakley, a top school public safety official, went back and forth with Davidai appearing to pick up Oakley’s ID badge around his neck to get a better look of it. 

“They blocked my movement and you’re not doing anything,” Davidai said of the protesters, with Oakley insisting, “No, you’re walking into them.”

You’re not keeping Jews safe,” Davidai shot back.

Davidai, who’s taught at Columbia for five years, told The Post Tuesday night the school’s action is “nothing but retaliation.”

“It broke me,” he admitted. “It shows how Columbia is run by petty individuals.”

He said claims that he harassed or intimidated school officials are “crazy,” while arguing the Ivy League school hasn’t leveled the same discipline against anti-Israel students and faculty that espouse violence against the Jewish state. 

“It’s hypocrisy to the nth degree,” he said. 

“There are professors who either participated in or taught in the encampment,” he said. “Not a single professor has been fired or suspended since October 7 for antisemitism and support of terrorism.”

That includes controversial professor Joseph Massad, who called the Oct. 7 massacre “awesome” the following day. 

“He’s never been suspended from anything,” said Davidai.

Davidai also blasted the school on a social media video, directing most of his ire toward Columbia’s Chief Operating Officer Cas Holloway, who he said could “go f—k himself.”

He said he was supposed to be on campus on Tuesday for an Oct. 7 memorial organized by Jewish students before his lawyer informed him of the school’s ban. 

“It is shocking that after everything that has happened, including the resignation of its president, the Columbia University leadership continues to silence and penalize its Jewish and Israeli community members while protecting pro-terror groups,” Davidai’s attorney Mark Lerner told The Post. 

The school has faced much upheaval over the last year, including anti-Israel protesters that occupied a school building and set up an encampment on the campus green. 

Former president Minouche Shafik suddenly stepped down over the summer. 

Davidai has admittedly been an outspoken staffer, criticizing the school for not doing more to protect Jewish students during anti-Israel demonstrations.

“I am feeling broken,” he said Tuesday, but stressed, “I’m not stopping the fight – because it’s not about me.”

“I’m not a provocateur. My goal is not to provoke or get a reaction – it’s to get change going,” he added. 

Biden’s betrayal of Israel is clear weakness masquerading as policy

 

Israelis are fighting for their lives on several fronts, so naturally President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris decide it’s a good time to tie their hands and publicly threaten them. 

Whose side are they on? 

Sadly, it doesn’t seem to be Israel’s.

Nor is it America’s when they insist Israel go easy on terrorists who aim to destroy America after they destroy Israel. 

Even to call the White House approach a policy is overly generous.

It’s more of a gut reaction born of weakness that sees any expression of American or Israeli power as dangerous.

Thus their instinct is always to call for a peaceful status quo, even when it is temporary and rewards the ­enemy. 

Afghanistan offers an example of the disastrous consequences of cutting and running. 

The defeatist pattern over Israel’s war began early this year as a way to appease Muslim-American voters and antisemitic college students who wanted to feed Israel to the wolves and were angry Democrats didn’t comply. 

Election-year strategy 

As the nominee, a nervous Biden reacted by turning the screws on Israel, and later had Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who has zero military experience, dictate which targets in Gaza Israel could strike. 

Now, as the election draws close and Harris is the nervous nominee, the White House is tightening the screws again.

This time, it’s taking a multifront approach, with Washington simultaneously demanding our ally show restraint in Lebanon and Iran, and allow increased amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza. 

In other words, Israel should raise the white flag until the American election is over. 

If it doesn’t, the US threatens to join France and others in imposing an arms embargo on the beleaguered Jewish state. 

The urge to protect Israel’s enemies is doubly bizarre when they also happen to be America’s enemies. 

Yet that is the impact of the positions America is taking and the demands it’s making.

Notice that Biden and Harris are not making a single demand of any other party, and no one else faces ultimatums. 

Israel alone is being held responsible for the care and feeding of Gaza’s civilians even though Hamas uses them as human shields. 

Why aren’t Jordan and Egypt pushed to help care for their fellow Arabs?

And in what previous war was the country that had been attacked required to risk the lives of its military to care for the enemy’s civilians? 

Hamas could end the war in Gaza immediately.

Yet there are no White House demands for the terror group’s leaders to come out of their tunnels, surrender and release all the hostages, including the Americans still being held. 

Similarly, there is no demand that Hezbollah stop firing into Israel.

Instead, Lebanon’s prime minister said he has “received American guarantees” that Israeli strikes in Beirut, Hezbollah’s stronghold, will be reduced, according to Al Jazeera. 

Neither the Arab outlet nor Israeli media say who made the guarantee, but suspicion falls on Blinken, the errand boy who has led the charge against Israel all along. 

Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin even wrote a Sunday letter threatening to withhold arms shipments if Israel doesn’t increase the humanitarian aid to Gaza within 30 days. 

Biden/Harris Economic Policies in Action: Walgreens To Close 1,200 Stores As US Pharmacies Struggle To Define A New Role

 Walgreens is planning to close around 1,200 locations, as the drugstore chain and its rivals struggle to define their role for U.S. shoppers who no longer look to them first for convenience.

Drugstores that once snapped up prime retail space in towns and cities across the country are in retreat. They’ve been battered by shrinking prescription reimbursement, persistent theft, rising costs and consumers who have strayed to online retailers or competitors with better prices.

The boost they received from taking the lead on vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic has long since faded.

Walgreens’ announcement Tuesday morning comes as rival CVS Health wraps up a three-year plan to close 900 stores and Rite Aid emerges from bankruptcy, whittled down to about 1,300 locations.

As the companies retract, they raise concerns in many communities about access to health care and prescriptions.

Drugstore leaders and analysts who follow the industry say smaller versions of these chains have a future in U.S. retail, but they’re still trying to understand how that will play out.

“They’ve really got to rethink how they do business and, most importantly, what they mean and what value they bring to the customer,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of consulting and data analysis firm GlobalData.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., which runs about 8,500 stores in the U.S., said in late June that it was finalizing a turnaround plan in the U.S. that might lead to hundreds of store closings.

The company said Tuesday that it will start by closing about 500 stores in its current fiscal year, which started last month.

Walgreens didn’t say where the store closings would take place. It will prioritize poor-performing stores where the property is owned by the company, or where leases are expiring.

CEO Tim Wentworth told analysts Tuesday that the majority of its stores, or about 6,000, are profitable and provide the company with a foundation to build on.

“This solid base supports our conviction in a retail pharmacy led model that is relevant to our consumers, and we intend to invest in these stores over the next several years,” said Wentworth, who became CEO nearly a year ago.

Wentworth said the remaining Walgreens stores will help the company respond more quickly to shifting consumer behavior and buying patterns. The company also is taking another look at what it sells in its stores and planning to offer more Walgreens-branded products.

Walgreens also is experimenting with some smaller stores that would be less expensive to operate.