Rite-Aid closing all stores and not buying new inventory

[DodgerGirl]

Do you remember when Valu-Rite was all the rage? I think that's who bought Rexall Drug Stores because when my family used to drive to Disneyland in the 90's my mom and I would stop at a Rexall Drug Store to look around and they would carry Valu-Rite brand items and have neat stuff and believe it or not that store is still there today. But as I mentioned when Payless Drugs merged with Thrifty in the 90's they knew trouble would begin as soon as they became Rite Aid. But when Dad would go to work while he was at his job Mom and I would get dropped off at a shopping center which had a large old-style Rite Aid and when Mom and I went in there it was like the Thrifty of the 80's and it was so big that it had almost anything you could think of and my mother and I would buy snacks and read magazines because their magazine aisle was so big and I would also find Harry Potter books and Marvel and DC comics there too. My family also went to another Rite Aid and that Rite Aid was like a Kmart rather than a Rite Aid store because it was set up like Kmart and my dad and I used to find interesting stuff like music CDs movies and comics like Marvel comics and comics of Buffy The Vampire Slayer too and they even carried novels like Stephen King novels and VC Andrews books too. When Rite Aid closes I wonder who will sell the Thrifty Ice Cream? Because my great-aunt used to buy it every time she and my great-uncle would shop at Thrifty to get her stuff

 

[Nayan]

https://www.vvdailypress.com/story/...-prescriptions-thrifty-ice-cream/83582198007/

 

[bcla]

Do you remember when Valu-Rite was all the rage? I think that's who bought Rexall Drug Stores because when my family used to drive to Disneyland in the 90's my mom and I would stop at a Rexall Drug Store to look around and they would carry Valu-Rite brand items and have neat stuff and believe it or not that store is still there today. But as I mentioned when Payless Drugs merged with Thrifty in the 90's they knew trouble would begin as soon as they became Rite Aid. But when Dad would go to work while he was at his job Mom and I would get dropped off at a shopping center which had a large old-style Rite Aid and when Mom and I went in there it was like the Thrifty of the 80's and it was so big that it had almost anything you could think of and my mother and I would buy snacks and read magazines because their magazine aisle was so big and I would also find Harry Potter books and Marvel and DC comics there too. My family also went to another Rite Aid and that Rite Aid was like a Kmart rather than a Rite Aid store because it was set up like Kmart and my dad and I used to find interesting stuff like music CDs movies and comics like Marvel comics and comics of Buffy The Vampire Slayer too and they even carried novels like Stephen King novels and VC Andrews books too. When Rite Aid closes I wonder who will sell the Thrifty Ice Cream? Because my great-aunt used to buy it every time she and my great-uncle would shop at Thrifty to get her stuff

I remember that, but that itself was just a different brand that associated with independent pharmacies. My reading is that the brand started just before Rexall went kaput, and was started by Foremost-McKesson, which later owned but divested a different Rexall in Canada. But yeah a lot of pharmacies that didn't have Rexall branded products to sell any more switched to Valu-Rite.

As far as Foremost-McKesson goes, I remember Foremost milk and ice cream until they sold off their dairy operation. I also used to work a summer job in San Francisco where the McKesson headquarters building had a really good cafeteria that was open to the public and was relatively cheap.

It looks like all their trademarks were cancelled around 2009.

https://uspto.report/TM/73171966

Status 900 Dead/Expired​

Serial Number	73171966
Registration Number	1115494
Mark Drawing Code	3T13: Illustration: Drawing or design which also includes word(s)/ letter(s)/number(s)

Timeline​

1977-12-13	Date of First Use
1978-05-26	Application Filed
1979-03-27	Trademark Registered
1999-03-27	Renewal Date
2008-01-09	Location: SCANNING ON DEMAND
2009-11-01	Status: Dead/Expired
2018-07-07	Transaction Date

Trademark Applicants & Owners​

Owner:	FOREMOST-McKESSON, INC.
Address	CROCKER PLAZA 1 POST STREET SAN FRANCISCO MD 94104
Legal Entity Type	Corporation
Legal Entity State	DE

 

[flyingdumbo127]

It is interesting how stores vary between states and even areas of a city. For example, there are no Dollar Tree Stores in my immediate area. There used to be (before they went out of business) three 99 Cent Only Stores. Similarly, out here Kroger owned supermarkets are Ralphs whereas a neighboring states have Kroger or Frys.

 

[Diznygrl]

When Rite Aid closes I wonder who will sell the Thrifty Ice Cream?

I noticed that WinCo (grocery store chain) started selling Thrifty ice cream in cartons for the past few months. Supposedly you can also find it at Albertson's, Von's, and Safeway.

 

[citruscurtis]

It is interesting how stores vary between states and even areas of a city. For example, there are no Dollar Tree Stores in my immediate area. There used to be (before they went out of business) three 99 Cent Only Stores. Similarly, out here Kroger owned supermarkets are Ralphs whereas a neighboring states have Kroger or Frys.

Our dollar tree moved into vacated 99 store immediately.. from it's lonely desert plot . that was. right next to family general... very easy it was to access and on way to the most crowded establishment on the street from November to April... post office .. now in a hard to park strip mall .. dollar store is now 4x larger... could be the chain largest

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Dad and I would love a neighborhood Dollar Tree. I don't think I've ever been to a Dollar General. I saw on CVS' website yesterday a welcome to all Rite Aid Pharmacy users. Dad goes to Rite Aid whenever he needs a prescription which thank God is not often. He will using Ralphs Pharmacy in the future. Ralphs is only a few minutes past Rite and somewhere we go all the time anyway.

 

[mylilnikita]

We originally had 3 in my city with 2 being close to me, but both have been closed.
The one left I guess will be no more

 

[DodgerGirl]

I think CVS Pharmacy has taken over most of the drug store glory because they have seemed to become the king of drug stores and Walgreens is now second in the top drug store chains. But I think Rite Aid saw it coming because they used to be top drug store in the 80's. But in California I had never heard of Rite Aid until when Payless Drugs/Thrifty bought them and then they converted all the Payless Drugs/Thrifty stores to Rite Aid. And in my area Longs Drugs and Payless Drugs and Thrifty dominated my town but when I lived in the country we actually had two Longs Drugs both converted from a Payless Drugs and the other Longs Drugs was a former Valu-Rite then after it was Longs Drugs it's now CVS Pharmacy. When it comes to drug stores there really isn't another drug store chain that compares to Rite Aid and CVS and Walgreens. But I think a store will buy the Rite Aid name and try to market their pharmacies in grocery stores like CVS has done with Target