Wellby Super Drug was a chain of 41 drug stores that operated in

Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...

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and

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from 1973 until 1992. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Hannaford Brothers, northern

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's largest grocer. After the Maine State Legislature repealed the '

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s' prohibiting stores greater than in size to be open for business on Sunday, Hannaford made the decision to convert its smaller

Shop 'N' Save Hannaford is an American supermarket chain based in Scarborough, Maine. Founded in Portland, Maine, in 1883, Hannaford operates stores in New England and New York. The chain is now part of the Ahold Delhaize group based in the Netherlands, and ...

grocery stores to ''Super Shop 'N' Save'', which would include floor space for a pharmacy. Because the Shop 'N' Saves were in the same communities as Hannaford's Wellby stores, Hannaford decided to sell the pharmacy chain. In 1992, Wellby Super Drug was sold to

Rite Aid Rite Aid Corporation is an American drugstore chain based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1962 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by Alex Grass under the name Thrift D Discount Center. The company ranked No. 148 in the Fortune 500 lis ...

; its successor in Maine,

Walgreens Walgreen Company, d/b/a Walgreens, is an American company that operates the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS Health. It specializes in filling prescriptions, health and wellness products, health information, an ...

, continues to operate in many of the former Wellby locations to this day.

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