Rite Aid Corporation is an American drugstore chain based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1962 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by Alex Grass under the name Thrift D Discount Center. It is the third-largest drugstore chain in the United States, with over 2,000 stores, and ranked No. 148 in the Fortune 500 in 2022.
A Rite Aid store in Glendale, California in 2023
Eckerd store in Rochester, Pennsylvania, pictured shortly before its conversion into a Rite Aid in August 2007
Interior of a Rite Aid store in San Ramon, California, in March 2017
Rite Aid store in Rose Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia in September 2018, before conversion to a Walgreens
Scranton is a city in and the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 U.S. census, Scranton is the most populous city in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Wyoming Valley metropolitan area, which has a population of 562,037 as of 2020. It is the sixth-most populous city in Pennsylvania.
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Image: Scranton Iron Furnaces in Scranton, PA
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