Retail Forever

For the history of this store, please go to  https://retailforever.blogspot.com/2021/03/glimpse-rite-aid-11034-willow-street-pa.html . The Willow Street Rite Aid's exterior remodel was completed back in April, and now I'll show you what the finished product looks like. Nothing has changed, nor will it probably ever change, on the back of the store; it still sports the signage added when this store opened. The interior still bears the 1996 Eckerd package's wall signage (from when Eckerd replaced Thrift Drug), and Rite Aid's Customer World aisle markers, added when Rite Aid opened in 2007.

Rite Aid #11034, located at 2600 N. Willow Street Pike in Willow Street, Pennsylvania originally opened in 1991 with the center as a Thrift Drug #6679. Sold and rebranded to Eckerd in 1997. Rebranded again to Rite Aid in 2007, and is currently receiving another exterior remodel, likely due to purchasing the closing Willow Street Kmart's prescription records.  There is a temporary banner with the new Rite Aid logo on the side of the building, where up until very recently, Thrift Drug's "Perscriptions" sign remained.  Rite Aid's older signage was present from 2007 until now. I wasn't able to dig up anything from the Eckerd or Thrift Drug days. (Google Earth Streetview) The sign on the back of the store has not been updated. They have an all-new banner design due to the remodel! It's a huge upgrade from the boring, red, and generic-looking banners seen in Columbia and Walnutport . A sign at the Kmart, which is also a huge upgrade from the one seen in  Walnut...