Rite Aid

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Rite Aid, every morning around eight, an old man enters with a shopping cart full of empty bottles. No one knows who he is or why he does it, but everyone wonders: what’s in those bottles? One day, a delivery driver asked him, ‘Sir, may I help you?’ The old man replied, smiling mysteriously, ‘Just restocking my collection, son.’ Everyone still talks about that smile—and no one has ever seen him leave without a bag filled with new bottles.

2. At dawn, when most pharmacies are just opening their doors, a delivery driver arrives at Rite Aid with a mysterious package wrapped in brown paper. Employees exchange curious glances as he disappears inside. Inside, everyone freezes for a moment—then bursts into laughter as they realize it’s just another box of cough drops for an old neighbor who always forgets where he lives. The delivery driver smiles sheepishly and explains that he thought it was part of his usual route. At dawn, Rite Aid becomes not just a pharmacy but a place where even mystery packages turn out to be harmless.}

3. At night, when everyone else has gone home, a delivery driver spots something peculiar in the pharmacy’s loading bay: a small box wrapped in brown paper, left behind amidst the empty boxes and crates. Curious, he opens it—just an old teddy bear with a note scribbled on a torn envelope: ‘To whoever finds me, please give me back to my little girl next door.’ Turns out, it was her lost toy from childhood. The neighbor kids laugh it off as another prank, but everyone agrees that Rite Aid now has the best Halloween decorations.

4. At midnight, when even the night owls had long retired, a delivery driver arrived at Rite Aid. The shelves were empty, but in the dim light of the nearly closed pharmacy, he noticed something odd on the counter. On the counter lay an old, dusty bottle labeled ‘Cough Syrup’. Curious, the driver picked it up and read the expiration date: 1987. With a laugh, he decided to keep it as a souvenir for his friend who loved collecting quirky stuff. As he left, he waved goodbye to the sleeping security guard, thinking, ‘Who knew midnight deliveries could be so… interesting?’