Value Drugs / Rite Aid / Eckerd / Genovese, Greenlawn, NY
Another interesting reuse of a vacated drugstore location by family-owned retailer Value Drugs. This one is quite obviously a former Eckerd on Long Island.
In 1998, Eckerd (owned by JCPenney) had swallowed the largest pharmacy on Long Island, Genovese Drug Stores. Genovese was a family-owned and run pharmacy chain with 141 stores in NY/NJ/CT. JCPenney continued to run the stores as Genovese for 5 years, re-bannering them as Eckerd in 2003.
This building was a former supermarket which was taken over when JCPenney relocated the existing Genovese store from a few blocks away around 2002. The standard Eckerd facade was added to the existing building and the name changed to Eckerd soon after.
The Eckerd store was converted to Rite-Aid in 2007 when Rite Aid purchased the Eckerd and Brooks chains from the Jean Coutu Group, and it closed soon after in 2009. Value Drugs opened here in 2009 and runs an extremely successful store.
Value Drugs / Rite Aid / Eckerd / Genovese, Greenlawn, NY
Another interesting reuse of a vacated drugstore location by family-owned retailer Value Drugs. This one is quite obviously a former Eckerd on Long Island.
In 1998, Eckerd (owned by JCPenney) had swallowed the largest pharmacy on Long Island, Genovese Drug Stores. Genovese was a family-owned and run pharmacy chain with 141 stores in NY/NJ/CT. JCPenney continued to run the stores as Genovese for 5 years, re-bannering them as Eckerd in 2003.
This building was a former supermarket which was taken over when JCPenney relocated the existing Genovese store from a few blocks away around 2002. The standard Eckerd facade was added to the existing building and the name changed to Eckerd soon after.
The Eckerd store was converted to Rite-Aid in 2007 when Rite Aid purchased the Eckerd and Brooks chains from the Jean Coutu Group, and it closed soon after in 2009. Value Drugs opened here in 2009 and runs an extremely successful store.