Wellsville's Rite Aid-Walgreens

It's hard to say where Walgreens' plans are stands in the taking over select Rite Aid stores. While many have closed in other parts of the country where Walgreens had more market presence, this region has generally seen little to no closures that I know of the top of my head. This makes for a very confusing shopping experience if you ask me. Am I shopping at Rite Aid or Walgreens?

One town where this situation occurs is in Wellsville. While Walgreens already has a store in the community, which ironically is a former Rite Aid that was taken over after Rite Aid's Eckerd purchase. Rite Aid relocated to the Eckerd site with higher traffic counts and that store is what this post features. Walgreens still plans to apparently operate both locations as Walgreens from what I gather- eventually. But for now, a two-in-one store of competing companies continues to operate under one roof.

Welcome to Rite Aid with a Walgreens pharmacy

I really like this cart tunnel. Pretty cool and unique.

 

Meadville Tops

As mentioned in the Downtown Meadville Mall post, this Tops store serves as a shadow anchor to the shopping complex. It was a former Bi-Lo location and had just lost its pharmacy from the looks of it on my visit

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Former Pharmacy from the looks of it

Former Kmart #9642

August's tour of a Kmart store is of the now former Kmart in Clarion, PA. I previously did a post about the Clarion Mall, which store served as an anchor too. Last I knew, this store is empty and has been since the day it closed back in January 2018. I did not make it to this store's liquidation sale as it was a rough January weather-wise. Here's how the store looked before it closed down:

This was the only Kmart I knew to do something like this

Tile from the Kmart restaurant was intact here

KCafe floor tile remains

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