{"id":322699,"date":"2026-11-06T22:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322699\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T22:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:26:26","slug":"walgreens-opens-new-prescription-fulfillment-center-in-lehigh-county-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322699\/","title":{"rendered":"Walgreens opens new prescription fulfillment center in Lehigh County | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa.- Pharmacy chain Walgreens has opened a new micro-fulfillment center in South Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n<p>A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held this week at the facility at\u00a04741 Chapmans Road.<\/p>\n<p>The centers are designed to streamline prescription fulfillment, Walgreens said.<\/p>\n<p>Employees- with assistance from robotic technology- process, fill, and ship prescription orders to Walgreens stores, allowing the pharmacists who work in those stores to spend more time with patients.<\/p>\n<p>The South Whitehall location is Walgreens&#8217; fifteenth micro-fulfillment center in the U.S. It will support nearly 650 Walgreens stores across the region, including 55 in Pennsylvania, and\u00a0is expected to process nearly 29 million prescriptions annually.<\/p>\n<p>According to previous reporting from WFMZ, Walgreens is using about\u00a067,500 square feet of an existing warehouse on Chapmans Road.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said the new facility is bringing about 185 new jobs to the area. Not all of the positions have been filled; interested applicants can see what&#8217;s available by clicking <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jobs.walgreens.com\/en\/location\/allentown-jobs\/1242\/6252001-6254927-5197646-5178127\/4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa.- Pharmacy chain Walgreens has opened a new micro-fulfillment center in South Whitehall Township. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-322699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}