{"id":14227,"date":"2018-04-30T23:37:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T03:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14227"},"modified":"2018-09-26T00:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T04:33:15","slug":"whither-rite-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14227","title":{"rendered":"Whither Rite Aid?"},"content":{"rendered":"

4730 Forest Drive<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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6118 Saint Andrews Road<\/b><\/p>\n

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7900 Garners Ferry Road<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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Commenter Mr. BO<\/i> sends the pictures of the Garners Ferry Rite Aid<\/i>, saying<\/p>\n

\nI remember when this place was Rosewood Furniture which was raised to make an Eckerds, then I think it was a CVS for a short while before becoming a Rite-Aid. Now Wallgreens purchased the place. With a Wallgreens just a block away, I sort of fear for this store's future. They're not in the system yet so I can't do my prescriptions from Rite-aid's web site and the transfer function only lets you select the store across Garner's ferry from Hazelwood.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had noticed similar signs on the Forest Acres and Irmo Rite Aid<\/i> stores: This Rite Aid now has a Walgreens Pharmacy<\/i>, which is rather like going to Sears<\/i> and seeing a sign saying This Sears is now stocked by J C Penny<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Looking at google, and Wikipedia<\/a>, what seems to have been going on is that Walgreens tried to buy the whole of Rite Aid<\/i>, but the merger was not approved for anti-trust reasons, and Walgreens<\/i> ended up with only about 2000 Rite Aid<\/i> locations. Now, the rump Rite Aid<\/i> chain is in negotiations with the Albertson<\/i> grocery chain to merge with it.<\/p>\n

What actually happens to the stores that Walgreens<\/i> got is unclear. I would expect many of them to eventually be reflagged, but some of them are really too close to existing Walgreens<\/i> locations, and those will probably be closed. How close is \"too close\"? We'll know when it happens, I suppose.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 25 September 2018<\/b> -- As mentioned by several commenters, the Saint Andrews Road store is now officially a Walgreens<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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4730 Forest Drive: 6118 Saint Andrews Road 7900 Garners Ferry Road: Commenter Mr. BO sends the pictures of the Garners Ferry Rite Aid, saying I remember when this place was Rosewood Furniture which was raised to make an Eckerds, then I think it was a CVS for a short while before becoming a Rite-Aid. Now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1708],"tags":[7,2524,2526,2523,2525],"class_list":["post-14227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-commentary","tag-drugstores","tag-mergers","tag-rite-aid","tag-walgreens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}