Rite Aid closing its doors in northeast Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Store closing signs covered the windows astatine the Rite Aid connected Cedar and Gettysburg successful northeast Fresno connected Friday.

This is 1 of respective stores closing crossed the state implicit the adjacent month.

"I pulled up the different time to get a medicine the different time and saw that sign, and my tummy conscionable went blurp," said Fresno nonmigratory Mary Jane Maudlin.

Rite Aid has faced fiscal problems for years. The cause store concatenation astir precocious filed for bankruptcy successful May.

Just past month, the institution announced it planned to support its stores unfastened arsenic it tries to merchantability disconnected its assets and plans to adjacent each organisation centers.

People archer Action News, this is simply a nonaccomplishment for residents crossed the Central Valley.

"It's precise bittersweet due to the fact that it's similar a vicinity market, you know. You cognize everybody, it's similar how's your mother, Ginger, you know, it's sad," said Maudlin.

Less than 40 miles north, radical successful Chowchilla were welcomed by bare shelves and aisles blocked off.

People said they are upset due to the fact that this is the lone pharmacy successful the city.

"I'm gonna miss it origin the farther I person to question present to get the tiny things. I person to question to Madera now," said Chowchilla nonmigratory Tony Korte. "It's gonna beryllium precise bittersweet origin it's wherever each my medications are at. And I person to travel and prime them up, present I person to spell to a antithetic pharmacy successful Madera," said Esther Morales Mendoza.

This Chowchilla determination is pushing each of its customers much than 15 miles southbound to this C-V-S determination successful Madera.

Morales-Mendoza said that for her and different elder citizens, the longer thrust is troubling.

"I hatred traveling successful Madera due to the fact that it's excessively overmuch postulation for one, and past inconvenience, and past I person him, my husband, helium has dementia, truthful it's benignant of hard for maine to beryllium traveling with him," said Morales-Mendoza.

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