Rite Aid seems to be one of the chains that is being squeezed out. They continue to accept the lower margin insurances that CVS and Walgreens either limit or flat out do not accept. Wal Mart may be able to subsidize this sort of thing but I'm not really sure Rite Aid can. The Kaiser situation seems to be an issue in California also, forcing many to go to Kaiser instead of chain store pharmacies. I'm not sure what the situation in PA or MI is, the other states where Rite Aid still has a high store count, in terms of who is accepting what, what the issues are with margin, etc. I think this situation is part of why we have seen so many Rite Aid closures in CA, not only in this recent round, but some of the past closure rounds as well in recent years.norcalriteaidclerk wrote: ↑August 11th, 2022, 7:53 pm Please tell me the omission of Rite Aid is an unintentional oversight.
As for raleys,it was an early pioneer of grocery and pharmacy under one roof.The fall 2019 closure if select pharmacies (27 out of 96, roughly 30%)was simply a concession that certain locations weren't cutting it.Even beforehand,the namesake raleys nameplate was already playing the small ball game with smaller pharmacy-less locations in centers shared with a traditional chain drugstore (Sacramento Campus Commons, Rancho Cordova Anatolia). Additionally a number of Bel Air and nob Hill locations(with or without pharmacies)have long shared centers with chain drugstores.
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Rite Aid also does not seem to be participating in this current thing where certain stores close all of their pharmacies and sell to CVS or Walgreens. Rite Aid does individual store file buys (like that Kmart in Grass Valley, and some Raleys) but isn't doing these groups like CVS and Walgreens have done with Schnucks, Target, and now Save Mart.