norcalriteaidclerk wrote: ↑October 3rd, 2022, 7:04 pm
I find the whack-a-mole approach RAD is taking to their NYC theft problems concerning.Too many closures in the five boroughs didn't necessarily need to happen (queens and the Bronx each suffered a new closure since Labor Day on top of quite a few locations that flash-cut from 24-hour operations to out of business like that Woodland Hills Thrifty and even Walnut/23rd in Philly).They don't seem willing to invest in asset protection staff(even in key West Coast markets).We don't see CVS or Walgreens/Duane reade closing NYC locations en masse (even though Walgreens has closed quite a few SF locations in recent years).
The loss of 900 Sunrise in Roseville as it turns out is far from the only location involved in the 2007 Long's swap to be out of business as a drugstore.The south Mercer Island store(68th street or avenue)that RAD also got in the same swap closed this past spring:that store appears to be undersized enough that it was signed as Long's Pharmacy and may have initially been an independent that Long's acquired.Of course,the RAD turned Long's in Sparks was closed by CVS due to redundancy with existing locations including a sav-on that has long been 24-hours at least on a front end basis.
The growing RAD coverage hole in the northeastern Sacramento metro may have quietly began in earnest under Thrifty,as they had a short-lived Granite Bay location (an Ace hardware franchise either occupies this building or the former Jumbo supermarket in the same center on the SEC Douglas/Auburn Folsom)that closed by 1991.A 1990-ish raleys (lost its pharmacy three years ago) would be the community's only pharmacy until both Long's and Walgreens opened locations in the early 2000's.
Some clarification on my past post:Of the thirty plus Payless locations that RAD divested to Long's fall 1999, West El Camino is the only one I've visited since that transaction (both times as CVS in 2010).I do recall visiting Rocklin granite drive in the late 1980's(the family occasionally went to a nearby bowling alley back then),and it seemed to have enough of an oddball interior(an interior garden area in addition to wall graphics inconsistent with a typical store of that time)for me to suspect that it was initially either a pay-n-save or value Giant before becoming payless.
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Rocklin was signed as Payless in the late 80's, so I wonder if it was a Value Giant. I don't think it was a Pay N Save. The Garden Center in Rocklin looks sort of similar to Auburn Bell Road. There was also a Payless in Red Bluff in the Food Maxx center with a very similar looking garden center.
I thought 4130 Douglas in Granite Bay was also a Thrifty before but gone long before Rite Aid. That center had Albertsons which may or may not have opened with a pharmacy in the late 80's but wouldn't have lasted long as Albertsons got out of pharmacy in NorCal in 1992 or so (Ralphs did add one).
The Auburn Folsom Thrifty was in what is now "ROOM" Furniture. It seems Thrifty did a lot of stores in the 80's that closed fast. They opened two stores in Reno in the late 80's and closed them by the early 90's; Longs reopened both after they were vacant for a couple years and both are now fairly busy CVS units.
Here I think the long term CFO is the only reason things have gone as far as they have without completely falling apart...
Longs went wild and crazy with stores in Sparks: These stores were a bunch of losers and only existed so Longs could operate slot machines as they owned and operated their own slot machines.
Longs and Sav-On always installed the maximum number of slot machines in Nevada Stores (often 20 machines per store with an employee there to sell you rolls of quarters while you were sitting at the machine and a cooler with free soda). Thrifty threw 3-4 machines up front that were unattended, I think you got quarters from the cashier to play the slots or maybe they had a change machine like an arcade, I can't remember. The RA1s opened with about 12 machines but were not always attended.
175 Disc Drive - 00's store closed by CVS in merger, was newer and did not have much chance to build traffic
Prater Rite Aid - RA1 converted to Longs, low volume as Longs (was busier as Rite Aid), closed by CVS in merger
Prater/McCarran Longs (former Payless) - low volume store closed by CVS in merger
2464 Wingfield Springs Drive Longs - built by Longs during merger, decor done but work stopped when shelves were partially put up, then never opened by CVS
Oddie Blvd. original Longs - bad neighborhood and a bad store, this was a very poor Longs and an absolutely terrible CVS; closed by CVS in 2021
This left CVS at present with:
Prater/McCarran Sav-On - high volume 24 hour store
Sparks Blvd. CVS - built by CVS right after Sav-On merger, this does relatively well but is very small
Disc Drive CVS - built by Longs in 00's, extremely low volume, surprised it stays open