Posted on 10/15/2023 7:37:54 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
our local Rite Aid drugstore could soon disappear, a casualty of years of losses and failed mergers. In the end, Rite Aid was too small and too poor to pay the costs of lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic.
Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy on Sunday in New Jersey, unable to find the money to settle hundreds of federal, state and private lawsuits alleging it oversupplied prescription painkillers.
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Thrifty, once upon a time.
I’m sure that ongoing thievery didn’t help either.
This is a pretty bogus charge.
Did a doctor issue the script? Sue the doctor, instead.
> In the end, Rite Aid was too small and too poor to pay the costs of lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic. <
Fill the prescription, get sued.
Don’t fill the prescription, get sued.
It would seem to me that all the heat should be directed at the doctors who knowingly wrote bad prescriptions. And the word “knowingly” is important there, as opioids have their place in reducing human suffering.
Oh, well. I guess it’s best for the personal injury lawyers to decide everything.
Those folks always have our best interests at heart. Not.
Rite Aid sold the cheapest beer at Grand Central.
I shall miss them.
Murdered by the lawyer-and-politician-inspired opioid panic. The only other pharmacy in our small town is a hole-in-the-wall place in the old downtown with no parking, let alone handicap parking. I’ll have to drive a half hour each way to get my prescriptions filled, if this one closes.
I tell ya that Bidenomics is working out great/sarc
Some Thieves have brief cases. Plenty of shoplifting losses but the opioid lawsuits crushed them
I miss the old mom and pop drug stores. Wynnewood, PA used to have one.
This is like putting school bus drivers out of work, because they take students to schools that don’t teach them anything they need.
China hooks up with Mexican thugs to drown the nation in fentanyl, every city is getting its tranq neighborhood like the opium dens in old Shanghai, and we’re making legitimate pharmacies close shop and lose everything because of a medicine that is a godsend for pain management when used the way patients are supposed to use it.
Professing to be wise, they became fools.
If there is one thing that does not last forever it is drugstore chains. I remember so many that have come and gone. Always swallowed up by another.
they were the worst company I ever worked for , glad they are gone!
The local (central Tennessee) Rite Aid pharmacies closed about 10 years ago. Various bargain stores bought the buildings.
Rite Aid never handed out pain medication. They filled prescriptions written by physicians. If in fact some physicians were guilty of malpractice shouldn’t the state licensing board and county medical groups be responsible for policing bad physicians? Why blame the drug store?
That’s what has been happening in Indiana. Doctor’s office I used to go to closed down after almost all the doctors were implicated in a racket to prescribe opioid type meds that people ended up dying from. Now, that said, I put the blame on the patients and not on the doctor’s but they were closed down anyway.
Hopefully, the Thrifty ice cream lives on.
Really. Rite Aid can not dispense any meds without prescription.
Rite Aid bought out K & B, the New Orleans based drug store chain. Still upset over that.
Could someone possibly buy that brand from Rite Aid now that they’re bankrupt?
K & B had the best selection of house brand ice cream and Elmers candy. Used to spend all my time between the arcade games and comic books at our old location.
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