Across the country, ghosts of Rite Aids past fill strip malls and shopping plazas.
After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year, the Philadelphia-based pharmacy and retail chain spent the better part of 2025 wiping its entire national footprint via a mounting series of closures. By October, the company went from more than 1,200 locations to a clean zero.
More than 40 of those most recent closures were in Oregon, leaving several dozen shells of former Rite Aid stores empty and in need of retail boost…