Retail Forever

RITE AID #11193 Opened:  2007 Address:   18898 Rehoboth Mall Blvd Photographed:  July 2021 Before leaving Rehoboth Beach (well, all of Delaware actually), we've got one more drugstore to take a peek at -- Rite Aid #11193. Like many Rite Aid stores, this one started out as an Eckerd. Eckerd #6291 originally opened in the now-demolished Ames Plaza (approx address is 199 Ames Drive). That store became a Thrift Drug in 1982 before reverting to Eckerd in 1997. Eckerd then relocated to 18898 Rehoboth Mall Blvd, opening on March 18, 2001. It became Rite Aid #11193 in 2007. Entrance, facing the rest of the Rehoboth Mall Eckerd #6291 (Photo from Cape Gazette) Side of the store, visible from Highway One (aka Coastal Hwy) I'm afraid this is becoming a much too common sight among Rite Aid stores these days...

WEIS #63 Opened:  1967 Address:   441 W. Main St Photographed:  July 2021 Weis of Mount Joy, store #63, opened in 1967 with a similar design to #65 in Lancaster . It appears that this store was expanded to the right twice, once in the 1970s or 1980s and again in the 1990s. It was also refurbished, bringing the store almost to what it is today, except with a blue canopy and yellow lettering for all the exterior signage. It was remodeled again in 2004, swapping the yellow lettering for red, however, the canopy remained blue until 2011 or 2012. Appearance before the 2004 remodel (Photo from The Weis Project) The 1990s expansion October 2019 - Google Earth April 2005 - Google Earth 1983 - Historic Aerials 1972 - Historic Aerials

WALGREENS #11021 Opened:  2006 Address:   18993 Munchy Branch Rd Photographed:  July 2021 Welcome back to the last post of the year for our Happy Harry's-turned-Walgreens series (which is good, I'm out of intro ideas at this point...)! After this, we've got just one more drugstore to take a look at  - The Rite Aid in Rehoboth Beach. After that, we're headed back up to Pennsylvania where I've got quite a few more stores in my backlog. Happy Harry's #21 (Walgreens #11021) opened in 1988 in the Rehoboth Marketplace shopping center, 19287 Miller Rd. Like many other stores from the era, it relocated in 2001, to 18993 Munchy Branch Rd. Walgreens bought it in 2006 with the rest of the chain, it was rebranded in 2011. The original store in the Rehoboth Marketplace shopping center

For our next holiday post, we've got another store you may recognize. Our original post on this store was in January 2021. Here's the link to our original post in case you're interested. https://retailforever.blogspot.com/2021/01/glimpse-weis-88-lancaster-east.html This store only has a small area dedicated to Christmas merchandise.