More Rite-Aid stores located in Pennsylvania and nine other states are planning to close

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A sign with the company’s logo stands outside a Rite Aid store in Salem, N.H., on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Camp Hill, PA) According to an announcement from Rite-Aid, 115 of their stores are ready to close after Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings started this month for the company. These Rite-Aid stores are located in Pennsylvania and nine other states and fifty-two of those stores that are closing are in Pennsylvania. The drug store chain presently has 1,240 stores in operation in fifteen states while 10% of those stores are ready to be closed.