Rite Aid Closing Bristol Borough Location Saturday

BRISTOL BOROUGH, PA —The Rite Aid on Commerce Circle will close its doors for good on Saturday amid reports that the Philadelphia-based pharmacy chain is filing for bankruptcy.

An employee in the pharmacy department said Thursday that the store will close at the end of the day on Saturday, but that prescriptions will be handled in the future by the Rite Aid location on 452 Pond St.

The pharmaceutical retailer has 464 stores in Pennsylvania, including Bucks County locations in Warminster, Doylestown, Fairless Hills, Morrisville, Levittown, Trevose, Warrington, Newtown, and Langhorne.

The pharmacy chain is planning to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to address more than 1,000 state and federal lawsuits it faces for allegedly contributing to the opioid epidemic, according to the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.

Rite Aid has not publicly addressed the bankruptcy filing reports, and sources with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg the company is still finalizing its plans.

The filing is expected to include the closure of more than 400 of its more than 2,200 stores, Yahoo Finance reported.

Patch has reached out to the company for any impending closures in the state.

Rite Aid has more than 2,200 pharmacies in 17 states.

Patch Writer Michelle Rotuno-Johnson contributed to this story