RIP Rite Aid.

[hardcorestitch]

All remaining stores have now closed. Now there is no more rite aid. NONE.

For those local to Disneyland who used to get Thrifty ice cream fresh from those stores, that is also gone too. The new Thrifty is all just mass produced.

 

[disneydreamer1980]

My local rite aid closed about a year ago. It was always empty. The location is now a Spirit Halloween.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Mine closed a few months ago. It was where I went to get my prescriptions filled, and it was always a hassle and huge pain because they served many areas around the county so you would get lost in the shuffle. Long lines, etc. Now I go to a small neighborhood pharmacy, am known by name and I'm in and out in less than ten minutes-usually five.

 

[hardcorestitch]

My local rite aid closed about a year ago. It was always empty. The location is now a Spirit Halloween.

What a spooky use of space.

 

[easyas123]

Now I go to a small neighborhood pharmacy, am known by name and I'm in and out in less than ten minutes-usually five.

I went from Walgreens to a small, local-owned pharmacy. So much better in terms of customer service, friendliness and efficiency.

 

[_19disnA]

Seemed like only a matter of time until some of these drugstore chains put each other out of business. There used to be a drug store on virtually every corner almost like gas stations............LOL. Clearly they are all competing for the same customers and grocery stores now have pharmacies (and better prices) so they also lose out to them.

 

[hardcorestitch]

Seemed like only a matter of time until some of these drugstore chains put each other out of business. There used to be a drug store on virtually every corner almost like gas stations............LOL. Clearly they are all competing for the same customers and grocery stores now have pharmacies (and better prices) so they also lose out to them.

Don’t forget about Amazon. Amazon ruined brick and mortar so hard they killed another one.

 

[tvguy]

Rite Aid was the new kid on the block as far as Drug Stores here. We used to have Payless and Thrifty Drug stores. They merged into one company in 1994. Then Rite Aid bought that company in 1996. All the Thrifty Drug store locations here were closed, and Rite Aid took over what had originally been Payless stores. Over time they remodeled the stores into much much smaller stores, about one third of the size of what Payless stores had been in the same location. I think that was one of Rite Aid's mistakes. The stores were just too small and did not carry enough product to survive. Of course, a mainstay of Payless' products were overstock items like Dollar Tree, and 99 cent store focus on now.

 

[kmill99]

Actually, the problem is pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Take a minute and do a Google dive on these. They're killing patient care in America, and destroying pharmacies everywhere with their despicable acts.
To be fair though, the hypocritical lawsuits by the government against chain pharmacies - in regard to the opioid crisis the same government negligently allowed to occur - also has driven some solid nails into the coffins.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Our local Rite Aid has turned into the post office for that town.

 

[_19disnA]

Drugstore chains who think their only competition are other drugstores are missing the market. I can shop at Target/Walmart or even the local grocery store and find a wide variety of items with lower prices (and each has a pharmacy). Even if some drugstore has friendly cashiers or helpful customer service, most people are shopping based on who has lower prices. Items in most drugstores generally seem higher than you can find elsewhere.

 

[Kitty 34]

I have always used a small locally owned pharmacy. My DH uses Meijer.