"I don’t see the size of the store changing from what you would know it to be today, but I do see some space being repurposed…… [We see the] CVS Pharmacy evolving from not just a store that happens to have a pharmacy and products [into] more of a health care destination."

-CVS Health chief executive officer Larry Merlo, in an interview with USA Today, late last week as CVS Health closed on its $70 billion acquisition of Aetna.