Walgreens Boots Alliance announced in October 2024 its plans to close approximately 1,200 stores across the United States as the pharmacy chain struggles with slumping consumer spending. At the time, the chain said the closures would occur within three years, starting with about 500 stores being shuttered in fiscal year 2025, which ends in August.

In a bankruptcy filing, drugstore chain Rite Aid announced its biggest wave of store closures since the start of its Chapter 11 process.

Seven months later, the drugstore chain introduced two pilot stores for what the company was calling “the store of the future.” One of those stores was the Rite Aid at the Newberry Pointe shopping center in Newberry Township, York County.