Rite Aid reopens nine New Orleans locations

CAMP HILL, Pa. Rite Aid on Thursday reported it has reopened nine stores in the New Orleans area that can accommodate both Rite Aid and non-Rite Aid customers. The company continues to open more stores on a daily basis as conditions allow.

Residents displaced by the hurricane can visit any open Rite Aid for their prescriptions because the company’s satellite-linked computer network assures a complete customer prescription history at any Rite Aid store. Because of the state of emergency, Rite Aid pharmacies also can access prescription information for patients who do not normally get their prescriptions at Rite Aid.

In addition, the Rite Aid store at 7060 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, La. is selling 20-pound ice bags to the public for $4. More than 200,000 pounds of ice were sold in Baton Rouge since Sunday, and two Rite Aid stores there are now selling ice, the company stated. The company will continue to truck in ice and other supplies where most needed.

Relief teams of Rite Aid associates, including store cashiers and pharmacists, have traveled or are traveling from Tennessee and unaffected areas of Louisiana and Alabama to help stores that have been impacted and to help reopen additional stores. Earlier this week, Rite Aid reported it had re-opened 32 stores in these areas.