Rite Aid’s New Wellness Stores Open in the Greater New York Area

Helping Customers Lead Healthier Lives in 2013 and Beyond—
Grand Openings Feature Free Heart Health Screenings, Organic/Health Food Samples And Information on Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Services

WHAT: 15 newly remodeled Rite Aid Wellness Stores are holding grand opening events on Saturday, March 23. Stores feature increased staffing for customer service, an enhanced selection of wellness products and resources, and advanced clinical services including a private pharmacist consultation room at most locations. Based on Rite Aid's latest store design, Wellness Stores are part of the drugstore chain’s continued commitment to providing services, products, and resources to help customers and their families live healthier lives.

To celebrate the grand openings, Rite Aid is offering free health screenings and product samples at each location. Nurses and our licensed pharmacists will be on hand to provide free services designed to help local residents keep their hearts healthy including:
* Cholesterol testing
* Blood glucose testing * Blood pressure readings
* Information on American Heart
Association’s Life Check® today
Rite Aid pharmacists will also be available to discuss counsel on heart health topics including how vitamins and supplements such as fish oil can promote heart health. Visitors can also pick up a free 12-page, full-color Heart Health guide that was developed with the American Heart Association to help customers learn the risks of heart disease, take control of these risks and overcome obstacles to decreasing those risks by making healthy lifestyle changes.
Also, at the events, Rite Aid Wellness Ambassadors will provide interactive demos on customized iPads. As a regular addition to these and future Rite Aid Wellness Stores, Wellness Ambassadors help customers access quality information and facilitate access to the clinical advice and services of the pharmacists.
Wellness Ambassadors can also help customers electronically enroll in wellness+, Rite Aid's free customer loyalty program offering health and wellness benefits and immediate shopping discounts. Visitors can also sample organic, gluten-free or natural food products and pick up other product samples and coupons.

WHEN: Saturday, March 23 from noon to 4 p.m.

WHERE: 95 Atlantic City Blvd. in Beachwood, NJ – (732) 505-8784
160 Washington Avenue in Carteret, NJ – (732) 541-2336
395 Danforth Avenue in Jersey City, NJ – (201) 200-9801
702 Grand Central Avenue in Lavallette, NJ – (732) 793-1910
3258 Bridge Avenue in Point Pleasant, NJ – (732) 892-5673
359 Route 23 North in Sussex, NJ – (973) 875-0148
2981 Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn, NY – (718) 332-1001
3001-27 Mermaid Avenue in Brooklyn, NY – (718) 373-2818
160-10 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach, NY – (718) 845-1066
82-13 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, NY – (718) 565-1473
5507 Nesconset Highway in Mount Sinai, NY – (631) 473-7795
542-576 Second Avenue in New York, NY – (212) 213-9887
119-10 Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill, NY – (718) 835-7659
10640 Rockaway Beach Blvd. in Rockaway Park, NY – (718) 318-8512
1604 Route 9 in Wappingers Falls, NY – (845) 298-2351

Rite Aid Corporation is one of the nation’s leading drugstore chains with more than 4,600 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia and fiscal 2012 annual revenues of $26.1 billion. Information about Rite Aid, including corporate background and press releases, is available through the company’s website at www.riteaid.com.