Rite Aid Attributes Bankruptcy Return to Empty Shelves, Shopper Trade-Down

Rite Aid has claimed in a court filing Tuesday (May 6) that its inability to sustain a successful recovery and its subsequent return to bankruptcy protection is primarily due to sparsely stocked store shelves and to trade-down from lower-income consumers.In this court declaration, Marc Liebman, Rite Aid’s chief transformation officer, detailed how post-emergence inventory shortages created a “vicious cycle” where diminishing liquidity led to empty shelves, and vice versa.The core of the inventory issue stem ...