A MAJOR drugstore chain left shoppers with an announcement on their website.
“All Rite Aid stores have now closed,” the retailer’s website now says. “We thank our loyal customers for their many years of support.”
The closures come after the chain filed for bankruptcy twice (stock photo).[/caption]
Rite Aid’s website now says all locations are closed.[/caption]
With the closing of all stores, Rite Aid‘s website now directs shoppers to locate their new pharmacy if they’ve been notified that their prescription was transferred elsewhere.
The website also has a section to request records including immunization and prescription history.
In the first quarter of 2022, Rite Aid operated 2,451 stores, Investopedia reported.
The chain operated only 89 stores by September 2, 2025, according to ScrapeHero.
The final stores were set to close September 29 in Washington and Oregon, The U.S. Sun previously reported.
BANKRUPTCY BUST
The drugstore chain first filed for bankruptcy in October 2023 and again in May 2025.
The bankruptcies came after the retailer faced “financial challenges, intensified by the rapidly evolving retail and healthcare landscapes,” Rite Aid CEO Matt Schroeder said, per CNN.
Neil Saunders, the managing director of data analytics company GlobalData, told CNN he wasn’t surprised the chain filed for bankruptcy twice as the chain couldn’t keep inventory on the shelves.
“The first bankruptcy did little to resolve the chain’s issues, and it has been teetering on the edge of survival for quite some time,” Saunders told CNN.
Shoppers noticed Rite Aid’s shelves were bare amid the bankruptcy struggles.
“All the shelves have been barren for the last six months,” Mike Macary, a shopper in Crafton, Pennsylvania, told KDKA-TV.
COMPETITOR TAKEOVER
Rite Aid first opened for business in 1962 under the name Thrif D Discount Center.
The name was later changed to Rite Aid Corporation in 1968.
However, all locations are now gone for good.
In fact, Rite Aid closed all of its stores in its founding state by September.
After its second bankruptcy, the chain transferred prescription files to hundreds of CVS locations and some locations outright converted to CVS stores.
Rite Aid’s competitor CVS agreed to purchase 64 of its stores in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
Across 15 states, 625 prescription files were also purchased from Rite Aid.
States with the last Rite Aid locations
In early September 2025, Rite Aid had 89 locations left across 12 states.
- Washington
- Oregon
- California
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Maryland
- New Hampshire
- Delaware
- Idaho
- Connecticut
- New Jersey
- Delware
- Maryland
Source: ScrapeHero
In Oregon, 13 previous Rite Aid stores were set to be converted into CVS locations.
‘INCONVENIENT’
In Buffalo, New York, residents are voicing their concern about the 16 vacant locations after Rite Aid was swept away from the city.
“When you shut that down, you made it inconvenient and very difficult for them to get their medication,” a Buffalo resident told WKBW.
“I’m a diabetic and I need to get to my medicine. I don’t have a car or anything, I’m doing the bus and train,” another resident told WKBW.
“We do need a drug store down here.”
