Six more Rite Aid stores were added to the list of Mid-Michigan store closures on Friday, bringing the retail and pharmacy giant's total number of store closures in the region to 17 over the past two weeks.
MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) – Rite Aid's withdrawal from the Mid-Michigan retail and pharmacy market continued Friday, adding six more stores to the list of closures across the region.
The six stores closing in Mid-Michigan are among 30 included in the latest list of store closures in Michigan and Ohio. The Mid-Michigan stores are:
- at 1001 N. Leroy St. on North Road in Fenton.
- at 841 S. State Road in Davison Village Retail Center in Davison.
- 5050 Gratiot Road at Center Road in Saginaw Township.
- at 1565 E. Pearson Road, located off Elms Road in Flushing.
- 602 W. Broad St., next to Alpine Marketplace in Linden.
- at 1341 Wright Avenue near Warwick Drive in Alma.
No date for the closing and liquidation sale has been announced.
The impending store closures announced Friday bring the total number of stores Rite Aid plans to close in Mid-Michigan over the past two weeks to 17. The company announced last week it would close the following stores:
- G4033 Fenton Road, Bristol Road, Burton.
- at 4519 Litchfield Road at Genesee Road in Genesee Township.
- at 6026 Lapeer Road, located off Belsay Road in Burton.
- at 3880 Wilder Road at Henry Street in Bay City.
- 2985 Main Street, Marlette.
- 2910 Ashman St., Circle, Midland.
- 161 Beech Street, Harrison.
- at 1020 E. Hill Road, at Fenton Road in Grand Blanc Township.
- at 5370 E. Hill Road at Belsay Road in Grand Blanc Township.
- in the 500 block of Lafayette Avenue at Broadway Street in Bay City.
- at 1022 W. Genesee St. on Main Street in Lapeer.
Going-out sales are happening at most of the Rite Aid stores that were added to the closure list last week, and are scheduled to close by the end of July.
Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy in October 2023 amid declining sales and looming financial judgments related to ongoing litigation over the nationwide opioid crisis.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit alleging that Rite Aid knowingly filled prescriptions for counterfeit or invalid opioid painkillers despite “red flags” that warned pharmacists that they were inappropriate.
Once the store closures are complete, Rite Aid will be left with about 150 stores in Michigan and fewer than 2,000 nationwide.
