VBT Rite Aid store to close, prescriptions to be sent to Walgreens

On Friday, June 21, the manager at the Rite Aid pharmacy at 51341 W. Huron River Dr., at the corner of Rawsonville Road in Van Buren Township, confirmed that employees have been told by Rite Aid their store is closing, but have not been told exactly when.
She confirmed that the prescriptions for Rite Aid customers will be sent to the nearest Walgreen’s pharmacy, unless customers make other arrangements.
She said they have been told that all of the Rite Aid stores in Michigan and Ohio are being closed.
According to Crain’s Detroit Business, Philadelphia-based Rite Aid is restructuring and on June 17 it filed a pleading with a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Jersey saying that it planned to close 27 stores in the two states. Rite Aid, Walgreens, and its restructuring agent, Kroll Inc., haven’t spoke publicly about further closing.
However, on June 17, Rite Aid held a conference call with its Michigan and Ohio pharmacists and told them it would close all but a tiny number of stores in a series of waves over the coming weeks, Crain’s said.
Rite Aid has 185 stores in Michigan and 142 in Ohio.
The pharmacists were told in a document on Facebook that beginning in late June, pharmacy patient prescription files and related inventory from nearly all Rite Aid locations in Michigan and Ohio will automatically transfer to a nearby Walgreen. Rite Aid pharmacies will close in waves and transfers will occur the morning after a location has its last day of business.