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Rite Aid will soon say goodbye to Rochester area
The Rite Aid at 605 Titus Ave. in Irondequoit is among the 10 locations in the Greater Rochester area that are closing. (Photo by Kevin Oklobzija)
The Rite Aid at 605 Titus Ave. in Irondequoit is among the 10 locations in the Greater Rochester area that are closing. (Photo by Kevin Oklobzija)
Rite Aid will soon say goodbye to Rochester area
Listen to this articleMore than 100 employees of Rite Aid will be laid off when the bankrupt drug store chain shutters its 10 stores in the Greater Rochester area.
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) filings with the New York State Department of Labor show that 109 employees will be impacted locally as Rite Aid pulls out of New York. The national retailer has nearly 180 stores across the state.
There are four stores within Monroe County listed in the WARN filing, with 45 workers facing employment termination on June 4.
Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy on May 5, seven months after the retailer emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy (from an October 2023 filing). The company had a 1.5 percent share of the country’s prescription drug market in 2024, according to Statista. CVS was No. 1 (25.1) and Walgreens No. 2 (14.6).
After unbridled expansion by drug store chains 20 years ago, contraction has been the prevailing recent theme nationally. CVS has lopped more than 1,400 stores from its inventory since 2018 but still has more than 9,000 locations. Walgreens said last fall that it will close 1,200 of its more than 8,000 stores by 2027.
In Monroe County, Walgreens closed five locations last fall (three in the city, one in Pittsford, one in Irondequoit).
The impending Rite Aid closings include:
1792 N. Goodman St. in Rochester (14)
1000 N. Clinton Ave. in Rochester (12)
605 Titus Ave. in Irondequoit (9)
4374 Buffalo Rd. in Chili (9)
539 N. Main St. in Canandaigua (13)
170 Eastern Blvd. in Canandaigua (8)
4155 W. Main St. in Batavia (12)
601 E. Main St. in Batavia (10)
420 Hamilton St. in Geneva (11)
101 S. Main St. in Newark (9).
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