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  • Rite Aid offering seasonal flu shots

    CAMP HILL, Pa. — Rite Aid has announced the availability of seasonal flu shots at its pharmacies ahead of flu season. The company said that its immunizing pharmacists would be administering the flu vaccine at its more than 4,500 pharmacy locations.

  • Health Dialog launches MTM service for health plans

    BOSTON — Rite Aid's Health Dialog on Monday introduced comprehensive Medication Therapy Management services for health plans. The new MTM services combine analytics with skilled health coaching to help patients overcome barriers to proper medication use, identify medication-related problems, promote coordination of care and improve medication management success.

  • Rite Aid brings prescription-free naloxone to 2 new states

    CAMP HILL, Pa. — Patients in Michigan and South Carolina can now access naloxone without a prescription at Rite Aid pharmacies. The company on Thursday announced the expansion of availability of the overdose reversal drug, making it accessible at 360 pharmacies in the two states.

  • What’s influencing how moms shop

    Having a baby changes everything — including shopping behavior, according to new insights from pregnancy and parenting resource BabyCenter, a Johnson & Johnson company. The company’s “2017 Skincare and Bathtime Study,” shared exclusively with Drug Store News, points to lasting changes that new parents undergo in terms of what they look for from their personal care products once they have children, as well as the top factors influencing their buying decisions.

  • With a leaner, stronger store base, Rite Aid goes to work

    CAMP HILL, Pa. — Last week, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Rite Aid ended their merger dance with a new deal that will see 2,186 Rite Aid stores — primarily located in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, along with three distribution centers —  sold to WBA for a sum total of $5.5 billion, including the termination fee associated with the merger.
     
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  • 5 things to know about the new Walgreens-Rite Aid deal

    The industry awoke Thursday morning to arguably the biggest story of the year — the news that Walgreens and Rite Aid had agreed to scrap their original merger agreement one more time, this time in favor of a much smaller, seemingly more manageable deal to purchase 2,186 Rite Aid stores for $5.18 billion in cash.

    In the first several hours following the announcement of the deal, DSN identified five important takeaways from the blockbuster agreement.

  • Walgreens, Rite Aid scrap merger, outline new deal

    DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens Boots Alliance Thursday morning announced a new Rite Aid deal, effectively scuttling its proposal to acquire the Camp Hill, Pa.-based chain and surrendering the $325 million termination fee with respect to the old merger agreement. The divestiture agreement with Fred's Pharmacy is terminated.

  • Analyst take: New Walgreens-Rite Aid deal a ‘good compromise’ if regulators approve it

    The news that Walgreens is to scrap its $9.4 billion merger with Rite Aid is unsurprising. The glacial pace of the Federal Trade Commission investigation and increasing signals that the federal government would disallow the merger have forced a rethink.

    In some ways, the process so far has been a colossal waste of resources and effort. Walgreens has to pay out a $325 million termination fee to Rite Aid, and all parties — including Fred's, which was due to acquire some Rite Aid stores — have invested time and money with very little to show for it.

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