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Many of those soon-to-be-closed locations are presumably part of the 1,932 Rite Aid stores Walgreens bought in 2018 in a $5.2 billion consolation prize deal after failing to buy its smaller rival ...
Walgreens attempted to buy Rite Aid for about $9.4 billion in a deal announced in 2015. But the larger drugstore chain scaled back its ambition a couple years later and bought only a chunk of Rite ...
Walgreens and other retailers have been hit by shoplifting and resorted to locking up items or closing high-theft stores since the pandemic, but Walgreens’ problems are much deeper, including ...
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On October 27, 2015, Walgreens announced the purchase of competitor Rite Aid for $17.2 billion (equivalent to $21.6 billion in 2023). [12] [13] However, that deal was later scrapped due to antitrust concerns in favor of a $5.18 billion deal (equivalent to $6.33 billion in 2023), [12] in which Walgreens only acquired half of Rite Aid locations. [14]
Walgreens attempted to buy Rite Aid for about $9.4 billion in a deal announced in 2015. But the larger drugstore chain scaled back its ambition a couple years later and bought only a chunk of Rite ...
Rite Aid has also struggled to keep up with its bigger rivals, CVS and Walgreens, as those companies have pivoted to a health care focus and made sizable investments to match.
In January 2017, Rite Aid and Walgreens further delayed the merger's closing to July, and reduced the sale price to approximately $6.8 billion. [44] 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, a labor union representing 6,000 Rite Aid employees, announced its opposition to the merger on January 31. [45]