Rite Aid closing nearly 30 more stores in Michigan, Ohio - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Penny Lane · 06-18-2024, 11:39 AM

This doesn't surprise me. There are so many of them!

https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/...c-4ef54ec614a9

Dude111 · 06-18-2024, 12:27 PM

I hope its not bad news!!!!!!

Oh my......

icecream · 06-18-2024, 12:46 PM

I didn't know Rite Aid was still around. CVS and Walgreens are the main drugstores here.

Caroline13 · 06-18-2024, 02:59 PM

Yes and other restaurant chains closing are Pizza Hut you can thank the architects of the Reset for mega numbers of businesses closing down. Business owners large and small are Drowning in DEBT....People are staying in their homes... Our thriving beach town is a ghost town..

The Apple's, Amazon and Micrsoft et al, can't count their MONIES fast enough....

Dead2009 · 06-18-2024, 04:33 PM

Apple has NOTHING to do with Rite Aid closing stores.

Bonniegirl · 06-18-2024, 04:50 PM

Lots of Rite Aids closing out here in California too.

Hawkee · 06-19-2024, 01:36 AM

I used to be a fan of Rite Aid when my town had two of them and sometimes when my dad would go to work Mom and I would go into Rite Aid to find interesting stuff and Rite Aids were interesting stores because you could find all sorts of items like books magazines movies and even music albums too and when I would go to Rite Aid my favorite section was their music section because they would get all the new releases and they had albums that were hard to find as well. I only now have one Rite Aid in my town and I remember when Rite Aid used to be known as Payless Drugs and then Thrifty Drugs merged with Payless Drugs and then converted itself into Rite Aid and the towns near me always had Rite Aid and one of the towns has a shopping center with a Rite Aid and next door to it is Big Lots so you can imagine those two places get a whole lot of shoppers. But it used to be that Rite Aid Osco Drugs Valu-Rite and Phar-Mor were the drug store kings but when CVS came along they replaced Rite Aid as the number drug store chain second to Walgreens and I think CVS is the one that made Rite Aid go broke because CVS wants to be king and they seem to have the great deals on anything you name. But I can guarantee you that another drug store will buy the remaining Rite Aids and convert them like Longs Drugs did with Payless Drugs in Northern California

Caroline13 · 06-19-2024, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dead2009

Apple has NOTHING to do with Rite Aid closing stores.

Apple et al, have a lot to do with all the closings everywhere as Apple want everyone on the hand held stores..... Microsoft too and all that have followed or were the leaders eve before Jobs and Woz........

Dead, you and your generation could NEVER know the Before and After tech life.

Caroline13 · 06-19-2024, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hawkee

I used to be a fan of Rite Aid when my town had two of them and sometimes when my dad would go to work Mom and I would go into Rite Aid to find interesting stuff and Rite Aids were interesting stores because you could find all sorts of items like books magazines movies and even music albums too and when I would go to Rite Aid my favorite section was their music section because they would get all the new releases and they had albums that were hard to find as well. I only now have one Rite Aid in my town and I remember when Rite Aid used to be known as Payless Drugs and then Thrifty Drugs merged with Payless Drugs and then converted itself into Rite Aid and the towns near me always had Rite Aid and one of the towns has a shopping center with a Rite Aid and next door to it is Big Lots so you can imagine those two places get a whole lot of shoppers. But it used to be that Rite Aid Osco Drugs Valu-Rite and Phar-Mor were the drug store kings but when CVS came along they replaced Rite Aid as the number drug store chain second to Walgreens and I think CVS is the one that made Rite Aid go broke because CVS wants to be king and they seem to have the great deals on anything you name. But I can guarantee you that another drug store will buy the remaining Rite Aids and convert them like Longs Drugs did with Payless Drugs in Northern California

Rite Aid has the distinction of a Ice Cream area, one could buy a great single or double cone, or a pint of hand packed to take home... They have all been just fine, a lot of buying one another...

Dead2009 · 06-19-2024, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Caroline13

Apple et al, have a lot to do with all the closings everywhere as Apple want everyone on the hand held stores..... Microsoft too and all that have followed or were the leaders eve before Jobs and Woz........

Dead, you and your generation could NEVER know the Before and After tech life.

Ma'am, Rite Aid is a pharmacy. Apple is tech. So is Microsoft. My generation can at least tell the difference between the 2.

HuntingtonM15 · 06-19-2024, 03:27 PM

Rite Aid has always been my least favorite of the pharmacy retail stores, but it's also the most convenient to pickup prescriptions since it's closest to my house so I'm glad my city isn't on the list! I am familiar with one of the Michigan locations closing, though.

HuntingtonM15 · 06-19-2024, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Dead2009

Ma'am, Rite Aid is a pharmacy. Apple is tech. So is Microsoft. My generation can at least tell the difference between the 2.

Very true, but why do I feel this post is going to give us one of those "big pharma" rants?

Dead2009 · 06-19-2024, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by HuntingtonM15

Very true, but why do I feel this post is going to give us one of those "big pharma" rants?

Oh God I honestly hope not lol.

Bonniegirl · 06-19-2024, 04:59 PM

I will really miss their icecream counter if Rite Aid really does completely go under and they all close!

JamesG · 06-19-2024, 07:04 PM

Many of the Rite-Aid stores around me all became Walgreens as they bought over 1900 Rite Aid's around January 2018.

There's only a handful of Rite-Aid's left around me as all of the others are Walgreens and CVS. Duane Reade is another one, but they are under the Walgreens company and are located mainly in NY and NJ.

06-18-2024, 11:39 AM	#1
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06-18-2024, 12:46 PM	#3
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06-18-2024, 02:59 PM	#4
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06-19-2024, 01:36 AM	#7
Hawkee Michael Fassbender Fanatic Moderator Forum Star Join Date: Jan 17, 2016 Location: California Posts: 10,754	I used to be a fan of Rite Aid when my town had two of them and sometimes when my dad would go to work Mom and I would go into Rite Aid to find interesting stuff and Rite Aids were interesting stores because you could find all sorts of items like books magazines movies and even music albums too and when I would go to Rite Aid my favorite section was their music section because they would get all the new releases and they had albums that were hard to find as well. I only now have one Rite Aid in my town and I remember when Rite Aid used to be known as Payless Drugs and then Thrifty Drugs merged with Payless Drugs and then converted itself into Rite Aid and the towns near me always had Rite Aid and one of the towns has a shopping center with a Rite Aid and next door to it is Big Lots so you can imagine those two places get a whole lot of shoppers. But it used to be that Rite Aid Osco Drugs Valu-Rite and Phar-Mor were the drug store kings but when CVS came along they replaced Rite Aid as the number drug store chain second to Walgreens and I think CVS is the one that made Rite Aid go broke because CVS wants to be king and they seem to have the great deals on anything you name. But I can guarantee you that another drug store will buy the remaining Rite Aids and convert them like Longs Drugs did with Payless Drugs in Northern California
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06-18-2024, 12:27 PM	#2
Dude111 Forum Legend Join Date: Nov 05, 2013 Posts: 35,675	I hope its not bad news!!!!!! Oh my......

06-18-2024, 04:50 PM	#6
Bonniegirl AKA Hazel Horvath Forum Addict Join Date: Jul 10, 2014 Posts: 65,482	Lots of Rite Aids closing out here in California too.

06-19-2024, 03:27 PM	#11
HuntingtonM15 That Bothers Me Moderator Forum Star Join Date: Jun 20, 2003 Location: Metro Detroit Posts: 11,060	Rite Aid has always been my least favorite of the pharmacy retail stores, but it's also the most convenient to pickup prescriptions since it's closest to my house so I'm glad my city isn't on the list! I am familiar with one of the Michigan locations closing, though.

06-19-2024, 04:59 PM	#14
Bonniegirl AKA Hazel Horvath Forum Addict Join Date: Jul 10, 2014 Posts: 65,482	I will really miss their icecream counter if Rite Aid really does completely go under and they all close!

06-19-2024, 07:04 PM	#15
JamesG Freakshow Moderator Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 01, 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 57,008	Many of the Rite-Aid stores around me all became Walgreens as they bought over 1900 Rite Aid's around January 2018. There's only a handful of Rite-Aid's left around me as all of the others are Walgreens and CVS. Duane Reade is another one, but they are under the Walgreens company and are located mainly in NY and NJ.