Rite Aid Offers Spook-tacular Selection of Halloween Favorites This Season

Saturday Holiday Gives Shoppers Opportunity to Dress-Up the Halloween
Season with Last Minute Needs

CAMP HILL, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With nearly 4,600 convenient locations, Rite Aid is this year’s one-stop
shop Halloween headquarters. From enchanting to frightful costumes,
décor, candy and more, Rite Aid is ready to help customers prepare for
the hair-raising holiday.

“Halloween falls on a Saturday giving shoppers the opportunity to make
sure they have all their last minute needs to celebrate the holiday this
year,” said Tony Montini, Rite Aid executive vice president of
merchandising and supply chain. “Whether our customers need candy for
trick-or-treaters, an accessory to complete a costume or festive
novelties to liven a party, Rite Aid’s convenient locations make it a
true one-stop shop for any Halloween essentials.”

Wellness+ with Plenti members can enjoy additional savings
throughout the season and have the opportunity to earn Plenti points on
select Halloween and fall items. New and existing wellness+ members can
now sign up for wellness+ with Plenti at any Rite Aid store
nationwide or online at www.riteaid.com/plenti.
Points earned on featured items can be used for at least two years for
savings at Rite Aid and certain Plenti partners including Exxon, Macy’s
and Mobil.

Candy

Rite Aid shelves are stocked with an extensive selection of Halloween
trick-or-treat candy classics like chocolate pumpkins, Kit-Kat, Reese’s,
Twix, Snickers and M&M’s, all available in large variety bags. For
around the house, fill the candy dish with Brach’s Candy Corn, a holiday
staple. And don’t forget to pick up one of Rite Aid’s colorful ghost,
jack o’ lantern and haunted house inspired trick-or-treat bags or
plastic pumpkin to help children collect candy!

Costumes

From children to adults, Rite Aid has costumes and accessories for
everyone with character favorites such as Star Wars, Avengers, Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles and classics including lady bugs, bumble bees,
zombie and witches. New this year, an expanded selection of masks from
choices including werewolves, carnival-inspired, skeletons and gorillas.
To help accessorize, capes, witch hats, wigs, face paint, makeup and
fake teeth are available in a variety of colors and styles to compliment
any Halloween costume.

Perfect Party Potion

Hosting a party? Scare the goblins out of your guests by creating a
frightful ambiance throughout the house with eerie candelabras, strobe
lights, gory door covers, cobweb and caution tape. And don’t forget the
Halloween-inspired plates and cups! Rite Aid also has an animated
reaper, ideal for spooking trick-or-treaters as they follow the skull
pathway markers that light the way.

Harvest

Fall into the season with Rite Aid’s revamped selection of classic
harvest décor. Choose from a variety of fall-inspired artificial
pumpkins, gourds, owls, floral arrangements and scarecrows for table
tops or outdoor. Greet guests with warm welcome wall art or door wreaths
designed in leaves, sunflowers, foliage and berries.

#RiteAidMombies

Follow Rite Aid on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for helpful Halloween
tips, tricks, DIY crafts, recipes and costume ideas that will save the
day and prevent busy moms from turning into “mombies” this season. Enter
for a chance to win a mombies Halloween care package on Facebook
throughout the month of October. Or take a personality quiz on www.riteaid.com/halloween
to find out which kind of “mombie” you are!

Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) is one of the nation’s leading
drugstore chains with nearly 4,600 stores in 31 states and the District
of Columbia and fiscal 2015 annual revenues of $26.5 billion.
Information about Rite Aid, including corporate background and press
releases, is available through the company’s website at www.riteaid.com.

Contacts

Rite Aid Corporation
Kristin Kellum, 717-975-5713
Kristin.kellum@riteaid.com