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Get $5 off a purchase of $25 or more using this Rite Aid coupon, which does not expire until Oct. 31, 2010. Wow! There are some exclusions, however, see below. Your must spend at least $25 to use the coupon before sales tax is applied. Caveats: not valid on prescriptions or prescription co-pays,...
Rite Aid Corporation (RAD) announced a quarterly loss of 23 cents per diluted share, compared to a loss of 14 cents per share a year earlier, thanks to refinancing costs and falling revenues. Revenue for the quarter ending Aug. 28 was $6.2 billion, compared with $6.3 billion a year earlier, the...
It is rare for deals to have a public benefit, but in this case the cliche is true: everybody wins. Get a $20 Rite Aid gift card and a $5 donation to your local Parent Teacher Association (PTA) when you transfer a prescription to the chain drugstore using a special PTA coupon. To get the...
Seems everyone wants to be a grocery store these days. Drug chain Rite Aid is converting 10 locations to include in-store grocery departments in partnership with Save-A-Lot food stores. The stores will be co-branded and called Save-A-Lot Food Stores/Rite Aid Pharmacy, and will continue to be...

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