Rite Aid
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Rite Aid Corporation was an American drugstore chain based in Philadelphia. Founded in 1962 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, at its peak it operated more than 5,000 stores. By May 2025, it operated only 1,2
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, Virginia, in September 2018, before converting to a Walgreens location
Thrifty PayLess
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Thrifty PayLess Holdings, Inc. was a pharmacy holding company that owned the Thrifty Drugs and PayLess Drug Stores chains in the western United States. The combined company was formed in April 1994 wh
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…in 1994. In April 1996, Rite Aid announced that it was buying Honeyland Pharmacy in Schenectady, New York. On October 14, 1996, the company acquired Thrifty PayLess, a 1,000-store West Coast chain from Los Angeles. The acquisition of Thrifty PayLess included the Bi-Mart membership discount stores headquartered in…
A Thrifty Drug Store at Sunset Blvd. and Fairfax Ave. in Los Angeles, c. 1939
A selection of Thrifty store-branded products
Single scoop of Circus Animal Cookies ice cream on a cake cone, showing the distinctive flat-topped, flat-sided shape of the scoop as typically served at Thrifty Ice Cream dispensaries