2 Rite Aid stores in Delaware to close as chain enters bankruptcy. Here's where

Two Rite Aid stores in Delaware are slated to close as part of the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The drugstore chain listed 154 underperforming stores due to close in a court filing Monday. Included are the stores in Chestnut Hill Plaza in Ogletown and at 3209 Kirkwood Hwy. in Prices Corner.

According to a company spokesperson, the Chestnut Hill Plaza store will close Oct. 26 and the Kirkwood Highway store will close Nov. 6.

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Among the remaining Rite Aid stores in the Newark area are the stores on New London Road, in the Park N Shop shopping center on South Main Street and at 4607 Stanton Ogletown Road.

Near the Kirkwood Highway location, remaining locations include the Midway shopping center near Limestone Road and 501 E. Basin Rd.

A full list of stores can be found on Rite Aid's website.

There is also a Walgreens and CVS across East Chestnut Hill Road from the closing Ogletown Rite Aid. There is a CVS pharmacy within the Target across from the Kirkwood Highway store, in addition to Prices Corner pharmacy and pharmacies in Acme and Walmart.

The store closures come as Rite Aid faces significant financial challenges — it expects to lose as much as $680 million in the year ending next spring — and legal trouble. The company is the subject of multiple lawsuits over opioid prescriptions, including federal allegations that the chain filled thousands of illegal prescriptions including opioids.

Rite Aid had more than 5,000 stores nationwide in the mid 2000s after purchasing the Eckerd chain. It now has around 2,000.

Its numbers in Delaware are starting to drop off too. In 2017, there were 42 in the First State, according to the Wall Street Journal. After the closures, there will be 34 Delaware stores.

The company closed a store on Route 40 in Bear last month as part of an earlier wave of closures.

Contact Brandon Holveck at bholveck@delawareonline.com. Follow him on X @holveck_brandon.

This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: Rite Aid in Delaware: Drugstore chain to close 2 stores