May 30, 2025 3:40 a.m.
In the KQEN Business Spotlight:
It’s now official – the Roseburg Rite Aid store on Northwest Garden Valley Boulevard is closing soon.
After an announcement earlier this month that Rite Aid Corporation and its subsidiaries had begun voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey, the move is not a surprise. While saying they were in active discussions with multiple potential buyers, the company said in early May that any store operations or assets that are not sold through the process will no longer be owned or operated by Rite Aid. Over the next few months, all Rite Aid distribution centers are slated to close, with all stores either shuttering or being operated by a new owner.
Rite Aid recently announced that 200 more stores would be closing soon, including 17 in Oregon. In the past few days, the Roseburg location was added to the list. Rite Aid had two locations in Roseburg for years, closing the downtown store in June of 2023.
The News Review reports that the store’s pharmacy will close after June 4th, while the last day the store will be open in general is June 10th. In Roseburg, Rite Aid will transfer its pharmacy services to the nearby Fred Meyer, also on Northwest Garden Valley Boulevard. Fred Meyer Pharmacy Manager Stuart Richards told The News Review that his store is expecting to gain roughly 1,000 new customers and will also be taking on the pharmacy staff leaving Rite Aid.
After this Rite Aid closes, Roseburg may be one of the few towns in the U.S.to have three vacant former Rite Aid locations. The first Rite Aid in Roseburg, in the 400 block of Southeast Jackson Street, closed twenty years ago when the newer downtown store was opened two blocks away, and has been empty ever since. It had originally been operated as a Payless Drug Store, and was built in the 1960s, following the 1959 Roseburg Blast, which destroyed a number of buildings in the downtown area. The Garden Valley Boulevard store was added after the construction of what was originally known as the Roseburg Valley Mall, in 1981.