Applegarth Road Rite Aid Changing To Walgreens

MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ — Ninety Rite Aid stores across New Jersey will change to Walgreens soon, and one of those locations is nearby: The Rite Aid at 314 Applegarth Road in Monroe.

Two Middletown Rite Aids will also become Walgreens as will the Rite Aid on Rt. 516 in Old Bridge.

An exact timeline as to when was not provided; the complete transition of all 90 stores to Walgreens is expected to take up to three years, according to Rite Aid.

The news comes as Walgreens' parent company, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., purchased a total of 1,932 Rite Aid stores across the country. The purchase price was $4.375 billion. Walgreens initially planned to close up of those 600 Rite Aids but that number soon grew to 750, executives said earlier this year.

Rite Aid said that any prescriptions or health care accounts will not change as a result of the conversion. Here are all the local Rite Aids that will become Walgreens:

• Marlboro: 107 North Main Street
• Belford: 78 Leonardville Road
• Middletown: 1447 State Highway 35
• Monroe Township: 314 Applegarth Road
• Old Bridge: 3891 Route 516