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I have two pharmacies in my town, but they're both owned by RiteAid which can't keep inventory on the shelves. If you need a prescription filled they can do that, but if you need something over the counter they won't have it. I walked into a Walgreens the other day in the next town over and was amazed at fully stocked shelves. Hadn't seen that in a drug store for quite some time.

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> I have two pharmacies in my town, but they're both owned by RiteAid which can't keep inventory on the shelves.

Rite Aid filed chapter 11 bankruptcy almost 2 years ago.

Sure, but the point of Chapter 11 is to restructure so you can hopefully get back to operating profitably.

Yes, keyword hopefully...over some indeterminate time horizon...but surely not a mere 6 months after emergence from a legal proceeding that took a year to resolve.

Commodified OTCs are hardly raking in compelling margins relative to filling scripts, so it's unsurprising that some Rite Aids are operating as the parent reports.

Sounds like Bartell's in the Seattle area. Plenty of friendly staff but nothing on the shelves. Walgreens meanwhile has fully stocked shelves but 1 barely conscious person at the register and a 30 minute wait at the pharmacy.

> Sounds like Bartell's in the Seattle area.

To be sure, Bartell's is a subsidiary of Rite Aid.

We had Rite Aid and Walgreens, then Rite Aid went bankrupt or whatever all they aren't here anymore (they would always be across the street from each other).

Now you have a 45 minute wait when you go, they never have stuff in stock, their phone support people are terrible...

Walgreens was great (and 24 hours) but now it's a shit show. At least we still have the pharmacy at grocery stores, Walmart, and a couple mom-n-pop pharmacies but their hours stink.

There are a couple other places without a storefront that are delivery-only but I haven't tried any of them yet.

Yea, where I live there is sometimes a 2+ hr wait at the Rite Aid.

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