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If youve relied on your local Rite Aid pharmacy to fill your prescriptions, you should be aware that nearly all Rite Aid pharmacy locations will be closed by next month. So what happens to your prescriptions? Rite Aid will be transferring them to local third-party pharmacies in your area. Heres where you can find out where Rite Aid pharmacy prescriptions will be transferred to and when most of Rite Aids remaining pharmacies will be closed. Why are Rite Aids pharmacies closing? Back in May, the struggling Rite Aid pharmacy chain announced that it had filed for bankruptcy and would cease operations. The chain immediately began winding down its business. As Fast Company previously reported, Rite Aid has announced multiple waves of store closures via court documents dating back to early May. As of June 30, Rite Aid had announced the closures of more than 1,000 locations, nearing the 1,277 number of locations the company said it operated when it originally filed for bankruptcy. While some Rite Aid locations have been acquired by competitors, such as 64 by CVS, most Rite Aid locations will be shuttering for good by the time the companys bankruptcy proceedings wind down later this year. Which Rite Aid pharmacies are still open? Rite Aid has already closed a majority of its stores and pharmacies. According to the companys pharmacy closure list, hundreds of pharmacies have already closed for good. The first pharmacies on the list began shutting their doors on June 2. But as of today’s date (July 28), the list still shows that more than 150 locations are still open (though over a dozen are expected to permanently shut today). The last store on the list, the Rite Aid Pharmacy at 5627-99 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is listed to be closed on Friday, August 8. However, it should be noted that this list is apparently just referencing the actual pharmacies that are operating in the closing store locations. The non-pharmacy parts of the Rite Aid locations may remain open for longer. Fast Company reached out to Rite Aid for more information on when final store closures are expected. We will update this post if we hear back. Where do I pick up my Rite Aid pharmacy prescriptions now? If you have regular, recurring prescriptions at a soon-to-close Rite Aid pharmacy, Rite Aid says that it has taken steps to have your prescriptions automatically transferred to a third-party pharmacy in your area. To find out where your prescriptions have been or will be transferred to, you can use Rite Aids Pharmacy Closure and Transfer List. To use the tool, enter the zip code of the Rite Aid pharmacy that previously held your prescriptions. The list will then filter to reveal Rite Aid locations in that zip code. Look for the location that matches your Rite Aid pharmacys address. After its address, youll see a column that says Last Day of Pharmacy Business. The date in that column tells you when that Rite Aid pharmacy is closing. The columns after that date will show you the New Pharmacy Name of where your prescriptions are being transferred to (a local Walgreens, for example) and the new pharmacys address and phone number. It may be a good idea to call ahead to the new pharmacy to confirm that they have received your prescription transfer before visiting. You may also be able to work with your new pharmacy and/or doctors office to have your prescriptions sent to a different pharmacy of your choosing.
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Astronomerthe company whose CEO resigned after being caught on a kiss cam at a Coldplay rock concert embracing a woman who was not his wifeis trying to move on from the drama with someone who knows the band pretty well.Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who was married to Coldplay’s frontman Chris Martin for 13 years, announced Friday on X that she has been hired by Astronomer as a spokesperson.Astronomer, a tech company based in New York, found itself in an uncomfortable spotlight when two of its executives were caught on camera in an intimate embrace at a Coldplay concerta moment that was then flashed on a giant screen in the stadium.CEO Andy Byron and human resource executive Kristin Cabot were caught by surprise when Martin asked the cameras to scan the crowd during a concert earlier this month.“Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy,” Martin joked when the couple appeared on screen and quickly tried to hide their faces.In a short video, the Shakespeare in Love and Ironman star said she had been hired as a “very temporary” spokesperson for Astronomer.“Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last few days and they wanted me to answer the most common ones,” Paltrow said, smiling and deftly avoiding mention of the kiss cam fuss.“We’ve been thrilled that so many people have a newfound interest in data workflow automation,” she said. “We will now be returning to what we do bestdelivering game-changing results for our customers.”When footage from the kiss cam first spread online, it wasn’t immediately clear who the couple were. Soon after the company identified the pair, and Byron resigned followed by Cabot. The video clip resulted in a steady stream of memes, parody videos, and screenshots of the pair’s shocked faces filling social media feeds.Online streams of Coldplay’s songs jumped 20% in the days after the video went viral, according to Luminate, an industry data and analytics company.
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The next time you order a sack of White Castle sliders, a robot might come rolling up to you. The restaurant chain, a Midwestern fast-food staple, is partnering with Coco Robotics and Uber Eats to bring robotic delivery to the Chicago area. The partnership, announced today, will allow customers ordering from White Castles first participating location to order directly from the Uber Eats app and receive a robotic delivery with no additional steps or fees. And in a dense urban area like Chicago, having more robots and fewer cars on the road could help ease traffic and emissions issues related to delivery. We’re always open to whats new and what’s next, Jamie Richardson, White Castles vice president of marketing, tells Fast Company. If there’s a way to do something a little bit better, we want to find out what that is and try it. A fast food innovator looks ahead For White Castle, which innovated the concept of a fast-food restaurant in 1921, this is the next step in a shift toward an autonomous experience. The chain first deployed Flippy, the robotic fry cook, to a Chicago restaurant in 2020 before expanding its use to over 100 locations. The restaurant chain considers these shifts toward new technology a reflection of its core value of continuous crave, or continuous innovation, Richardson says. [Photo: White Castle X Coco] The robots used in the new partnership were developed by Coco Robotics, a last-mile delivery startup that was named one of Fast Companys most innovative robotics companies in 2022. More recently, it announced significant venture capital funding and partnerships with large companies like OpenAI, Uber Eats, and DoorDash. Part of the force propelling Cocos little red robots is their capacity for moving large amounts of goods while keeping costs low and carbon emissions at zero. They accomplish it with a 100-pound vehicle that uses artificial intelligenceand remote human operatorsto drive safely over unpredictable city terrain. We built these purpose-built autonomous vehicles that are designed to be the best way to move goods around a city, Zach Rash, Coco Robotics cofounder and CEO, tells Fast Company. They’re lightweight, they’re compact, they’re super energy efficient, and they’re big enough to fit six extra large pizzas and two liter bottle sodas and four grocery bagsmost of the types of things you would get delivered on demand. Bots and the city First launched in Santa Monica, California, the robots are now in several cities around the world, as far afield as Helsinki. The robots work best where there is a vibrant local economy of delivery, Rash says, but where congestion or other barriers add cost and hassle to traditional delivery. Chicago, in particular, fits the bill because it is a dense city where difficult winters can drive disparity between demand for delivery and supply of available drivers, Rash says, adding that theyve been successful in the Chicago market so far and are looking forward to launching the robots in new cities with similar characteristics later this year. For Uber Eats, also looking to expand its autonomous services and its reach in the Midwest market, the new partnership with White Castle offers an important opportunity. First launching in Chicago, this partnership with Coco Robotics and White Castle marks an important step in bringing zero-emission, sidewalk delivery to one of our most dynamic and operationally complex markets, Megan Jensen, Uber Eats global head of autonomous delivery operations, said in a statement to Fast Company. The robots, which started picking up burgers in Chicago a couple weeks ahead of the partnerships official launch, are already finding success in what Richardson considers White Castles second home town.
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