Thursday, July 5, 2007

Rite Aid June same-store sales up 0.7 percent

(Reuters) - Pharmacy same-store sales rose 0.6 percent and same-store sales of general merchandise such as food, snacks and cosmetics rose 1.1 percent.



Total drugstore sales for the four weeks ended June 30 jumped 54.8 percent to $2.08 billion, aided by the June 4 acquisition of the U.S. Eckerd and Brooks chains from Canada's Jean Coutu Group Inc. . The Brooks and Eckerd stores were excluded from the same-store sales results.


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