September 4, 2014 Thursday
Rite Aid Corporation
Mr. John T. Standley, President and Chief Executive Officer
Post Office Box 3165
Harrisburg, Common Wealth of Pennsylvania 17105-3165
From: Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson
Post Office Box 42878
Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 19101-2878
Dear John T. Standley, President, Chief Executive Officer of Rite Aid,
Inc.
I hope & Pray you & your close family & friends are well
& in chipper Spirits. I was a customer at the Rite Aid at 47th
& Walnut Street in Philadelphia [managed by my ole elementary school at Lea
Elementary School, Mr. Robert Grayson] for quite some time when I lived around
the corner from there at 4635 Sansom Street, in West Philadelphia, The Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. I not only bought my prescriptions there, I also helped a
friend of mine at the time, Mr. Blair Simmons, buy diapers and other baby needs
for His new born baby at the time. [About five years ago.]. I have been thinking about our Nation’s
Pharmacy system and How they should be about healing, health and well-being. It
is my testimony that our Pharmacies should NOT be selling cigarettes because
cigarettes and other tobacco products are known carcinogens or cancer causers. Pharmacies
sell vitamins, healing products like Castor Oil and Walkers for the handicapped
and bandages for the injured. Medicines
are of course, also sold. Selling
cigarettes flies in the face of your presenting yourself as a helpful healing
representative of the health care profession through your Pharmacists and other
health care providers who know about such things and matters as blood pressure
machines, home health remedies, walkers & healthy Low Sodium foods. It is my hope, wish and desire that
cigarettes, tobacco products and even chewing tobacco be taken off the shelves
and never again be sold to the public in such a setting as a Pharmacy. I have written a similar letter to CVS
Pharmacy and they have given lip-service and there was a report on KYW News
Radio that they would stop selling Cigarettes—but they have NOT followed
through. I think there is still time for
you to do the correct thing and beat them to the punch. Please call my home phone and let me know if
you agree and want to comply by removing cigarettes and returning them back to
The Producers. This would save countless
lives in the Delaware Valley and in other areas if similar Pharmacies followed
suit and did the correct things also. I thank you for your concern for the
Human Factor in ALL of us.
Peace and Blessings,
Tracy Charles Gibson,
Disabled Worker; Writer; Community Organizer; Philanthropist;
Businessman..
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