After decades of doing business, the Rite Aid store in Marion will close. And its closing is generating new speculation about Marion getting a new and bigger Ingles in that shopping center.
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Rite Aid in Marion closing; customers must find new pharmacy
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After decades of doing business, the Rite Aid store in Marion is about to close. A drug store has been at that location in the shopping center since the 1970s. It was first an Eckerd store before it became a Rite Aid. Its closing is generating new speculation about Marion getting a new and bigger Ingles in that shopping center.
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Customers who get their prescriptions filled at Rite Aid’s pharmacy will soon be able to get them filled at CVS on the five lane. A sign both outside and inside the Rite Aid tells customers their prescriptions will be available at CVS as of Dec. 13. But customers will have the option of having their prescriptions sent to other places like Marion Pharmacy or Walmart.
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On Wednesday, the store was filled with customers seeking to take advantage on the going-out-of-business sales. Lisa McKinney of Marion was looking over the school and office supplies that are 75 percent off. Like so many others, she’s gotten her prescriptions filled at this store. “I just hate to see it go,” she said. “It’s really sad.”
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