I was a bit surprised to see this mall's Rite Aid still hanging on after last year's bankruptcy. Sadly, it looks like there isn't going to be anything left of Rite Aid after this year's. That will be the end of a long era here, with Rite Aid owning all of the long-running local drugstore chains thanks to their acquisitions of Payless/Pay 'n Save in the 90s and of Bartell in 2020... Walgreens and CVS have no claim to local roots like Rite Aid does. (And both of those chains have closed plenty of local locations too, so I don't see them stepping up to fill in the pharmacy deserts Rite Aid's closing will create.)
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