A July report from Spotlight PA examined the impact of hundreds of pharmacy closures, explored the debate over who’s to blame ...

More than 70 Rite Aid pharmacies have shuttered or are preparing to close across the Pittsburgh area as the company undergoes ...

Rite Aid Corp. investors can’t proceed with a proposed class action against several executives over the drugstore chain’s ...

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Rite Aid’s history traces to Scranton, when city native Alex Grass opened the first Thrif-D Discount Center on Lackawanna Avenue in September 1962. The company expanded to five states by 1965 ...

Of the 1,090 Rite Aid stores slated for closure, there are about 280 in Pennsylvania, according to July 11 court records. There were about 192 closing in the Keystone State as of May 30.

You may have noticed a familiar landmark disappearing from your neighborhood corner—the local Rite Aid. Its closure is more ...

Over the past two years, our area has experienced "mass closures" of several pharmacy chains and independent stores, ...

Pharma giants Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens will have closed a collective 1,000 locations across the U.S. in 2025, and Pennsylvania will feel the strongest hit as 200 Rite Aid stores shutter.