Chino CA chain drugstore update
Posted: 16 Sep 2008 19:04
I'm currently doing some research on the history of the Chino Valley. From the chain drugstore perspective, here is an update of the various chain drugstores/pharmacies located within the City of Chino that are currently known:
12160 Central (at Philadelphia)
Now vacant, was Savon Drugs - this older building is similar to the Savon/CVS on Azusa Ave/San Bernardino Road in Covina. If it was a 1980's Savon, it probably was a shortlived Osco Drug, or if beyond, a Skagg. Sometime before the acquisition by CVS, they moved across the street to a corner standalone store, currently operating as CVS Pharmacy.
12059 Central (at Philadelphia, next door to Albertsons)
First opened as Thrifty Drugs and became Rite Aid 5579in the late 1990's after Rite Aid acquired Thrifty Payless Inc. Albertsons does not have an instore pharmacy because of the drugstore next door. Chino never had a Payless Drug store.
12490 Central (at Walnut)
Walgreens 6438. Like most new Walgreens store in the LA area, this one was built from the ground up together with the adjacent Starbucks. This shopping center, called Central Plaza was built in stages. The oldest section anchored by Central Furniture dates to the 1950's (2 buildings) and sometime later, Pacific Western Bank was added and more recently, Starbucks and Walgreens.
12155 Central (at Philadelphia)
Previously Drug Emporium. Somewhere on the web, the address matches a "Gigantic Supermercado" general merchandise store.
Chain cooperative pharmacies/drugstores:
There are four large drugstore/pharmacy cooperatives in the nation - Good Neighbor Pharmacy, Medicine Shoppe, United Drugs, and Leader Drugs. These shops are not owned by these brands - they are independently owned and operated but are members of these brands to promote products and services.
United Drug - 12611 9th Street/D St (dba Chino Professional Pharmacy and Chino Medical Plaza Pharmacy)
Medicine Shoppe - 12447 Central/Philadelphia (in the same shopping center as Superior)
dba Medicine Shoppe.
There are no GNP and Leader member stores in Chino. Thornton's Pharmacy on Riverside Dr east of Central closed sometime ago and was a GNP branch (been around since the 1960's).
Rancho Cucamonga-based Gemmel Pharmacy (with multiple locations in Rancho, Upland, and Ontario) had a shop on Central Ave going back to the 1960's. It has since been closed and they have no Chino locations.
IN-STORE PHARMACIES
Ralphs operates an in-store pharmacy on 12835 Mountain/Riverside.
Walmart/Sams Club and both Target stores have in-store pharmacies as well. The Targets added pharmacies about 2 years ago.
When Vons operated Pak n Save (now Superior Superwarehouse), there was a Vons-branded pharmacy but using Safeway branded stationary such as bottle labels and customer comment cards.
The Stater Bros that is scheduled to open sometime next year on Schaefer and Euclid might have a SuperRx in-store pharmacy. SuperRx was a pharmacist-owned chain of pharmacies located inside selected Stater Bros stores and was bought out by Staters as a subsidiary in 2006.
As with other legacy chain banners (such as American Drug Stores <dba Clark Drugs/Katz Drugs/Skaggs Drug Center/Health n Home> and Alpha Beta's Hy-Lo Drugs), none of these locations were found in the Times archives.
luckysaver
12160 Central (at Philadelphia)
Now vacant, was Savon Drugs - this older building is similar to the Savon/CVS on Azusa Ave/San Bernardino Road in Covina. If it was a 1980's Savon, it probably was a shortlived Osco Drug, or if beyond, a Skagg. Sometime before the acquisition by CVS, they moved across the street to a corner standalone store, currently operating as CVS Pharmacy.
12059 Central (at Philadelphia, next door to Albertsons)
First opened as Thrifty Drugs and became Rite Aid 5579in the late 1990's after Rite Aid acquired Thrifty Payless Inc. Albertsons does not have an instore pharmacy because of the drugstore next door. Chino never had a Payless Drug store.
12490 Central (at Walnut)
Walgreens 6438. Like most new Walgreens store in the LA area, this one was built from the ground up together with the adjacent Starbucks. This shopping center, called Central Plaza was built in stages. The oldest section anchored by Central Furniture dates to the 1950's (2 buildings) and sometime later, Pacific Western Bank was added and more recently, Starbucks and Walgreens.
12155 Central (at Philadelphia)
Previously Drug Emporium. Somewhere on the web, the address matches a "Gigantic Supermercado" general merchandise store.
Chain cooperative pharmacies/drugstores:
There are four large drugstore/pharmacy cooperatives in the nation - Good Neighbor Pharmacy, Medicine Shoppe, United Drugs, and Leader Drugs. These shops are not owned by these brands - they are independently owned and operated but are members of these brands to promote products and services.
United Drug - 12611 9th Street/D St (dba Chino Professional Pharmacy and Chino Medical Plaza Pharmacy)
Medicine Shoppe - 12447 Central/Philadelphia (in the same shopping center as Superior)
dba Medicine Shoppe.
There are no GNP and Leader member stores in Chino. Thornton's Pharmacy on Riverside Dr east of Central closed sometime ago and was a GNP branch (been around since the 1960's).
Rancho Cucamonga-based Gemmel Pharmacy (with multiple locations in Rancho, Upland, and Ontario) had a shop on Central Ave going back to the 1960's. It has since been closed and they have no Chino locations.
IN-STORE PHARMACIES
Ralphs operates an in-store pharmacy on 12835 Mountain/Riverside.
Walmart/Sams Club and both Target stores have in-store pharmacies as well. The Targets added pharmacies about 2 years ago.
When Vons operated Pak n Save (now Superior Superwarehouse), there was a Vons-branded pharmacy but using Safeway branded stationary such as bottle labels and customer comment cards.
The Stater Bros that is scheduled to open sometime next year on Schaefer and Euclid might have a SuperRx in-store pharmacy. SuperRx was a pharmacist-owned chain of pharmacies located inside selected Stater Bros stores and was bought out by Staters as a subsidiary in 2006.
As with other legacy chain banners (such as American Drug Stores <dba Clark Drugs/Katz Drugs/Skaggs Drug Center/Health n Home> and Alpha Beta's Hy-Lo Drugs), none of these locations were found in the Times archives.
luckysaver