Last summer was hardly a fun time for popular casual dining chain Red Lobster. In May 2024, the seafood chain filed for bankruptcy. The process saw stores close and resulted in new ownership and a new CEO by the time the company exited bankruptcy in September 2024.
But this summer, Red Lobster is hoping things will be different. Instead of cost-cutting and restructuring to boost its bottom line, the chain hopes a handful of new menu items will boost foot traffic and get diners back in the doors.
Red Lobster announces new menu items for summer 2025
“Americas favorite seafood chain” has announced the return of its popular Crabfest event. The annual event is timed for the summer at Red Lobster, when diners have sun, surf, and seafood on their minds.
The company has announced that Crabfest will run from June 23 to September 14, 2025.
[Photos: Red Lobster]
Red Lobster says that this years Crabfest celebrations will see the following new Crabfest dishes on the menu:
Crabby Stuffed Mushrooms A flavorful appetizer packed with rich crab stuffing
Crab-Topped Asparagus A premium side dish featuring asparagus topped with crab
Crab-Topped Potato A premium side dish, elevating a classic dish with savory crab
Steak Oscar Sirloin topped with lump meat in a creamy, decadent sauce
Salmon Oscar Atlantic salmon topped with lump crab meat in a creamy, decadent sauce
In addition to the new menu items mentioned above, Red Lobster will also offer two ways to customize their seafood boil, including Mariner’s Boil, which features a Maine lobster tail, a dozen shrimp, snow crab legs, corn, and red potatoes. Alternatively, customers can opt for the Sailor’s Boil, which features a selection of shrimp, smoked sausage, corn, and red potatoes.
Red Lobsters 2024 bankruptcy saw significant changes at the seafood chain
Red Lobster is undoubtedly hoping its festive summer Crabfest will boost sales this year and help the company put a challenging financial period behind it.
When the company announced its plans to file for bankruptcy in May 2024, many headlines blamed the restaurants financial woes on its Endless Shrimp menu items, which resulted in an $11 million loss for the chain after it underestimated demand.
However, the company cited several factors that affected its financial footing, including multiple owners over a relatively short period of time, burdensome cost reduction strategies by its former owners, and costs and other problems associated with renting restaurant locations.
Red Lobster also faced challenges many other restaurant chains have faced in recent years: declining foot traffic as cash-strapped and inflation-weary customers choose to stay home and cook instead of going out to eat.
Many of these issues were addressed during its bankruptcy process, however. When the company emerged from bankruptcy protection in September, it had over 30 fewer locations, new ownership from a group of private investors including TCW Private Credit and Blue Torch, and a new CEO to run the newly formed RL Investor Holdings, which currently owns Red Lobster.
So, will the new Crabfest items help Red Lobster have a banner summer? Thats something fans of the chain will have to wait and see. But even when Crabfest ends in September, its unlikely the public will know just how well or poorly Crabfest went for Red LobsterRL Investor Holdings is a private company, so it does not release public quarterly reports.
A Republican-sponsored proposal before Congress to mandate the sale of federal public lands received a mixed reception Monday from the governors of Western states.A budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee would mandate the sale of more than 3,125 square miles (8,093 square kilometers) of federal lands to state or other entities. It was included recently in a draft provision of the GOP’s sweeping tax cut package.At a summit Monday of Western state governors, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the approach is problematic in New Mexico because of the close relationship residents have with those public lands.“I’m open” to the idea, said Lujan Grisham, a second-term Democratic governor and former congresswoman. “Except here.”“Our public lands, we have a very strong relationship with the openness, and they belong to all of us,” said Lujan Grisham, who was announcing written recommendations Monday on affordable housing strategies from the Western Governors’ Association. “And selling that to the private sector without a process, without putting New Mexicans first, is, for at least for me as a governor, going to be problematic.”Interior Department Secretary Doug Burgum was among the leaders from several federal agencies who attended the meeting that runs through Tuesday. He has touted the many potential uses for public lands that include recreation, logging and oil and gas production, saying it could boost local economies.Several hundred protesters in downtown Santa Fe denounced efforts that might privatize federal public lands, chanting “not for sale” and carrying signs reading “This land belongs to you and me” and “keep our public land free for future generations.”Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon voiced qualified support for plans to tap federal land for development.“On a piece-by-piece basis where states have the opportunity to craft policies that make sense we can actually allow for some responsible growth in areas with communities that are landlocked at this point,” he said at a news conference outside the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. “There may be value there.”Lee has said federal land sales under his proposal would target “isolated parcels” that could be used for housing or infrastructure, and would not include national parks, national monuments or wilderness.Land in 11 Western states from Alaska to New Mexico would be eligible for sale. Montana was carved out of the proposal after its lawmakers objected.In some states, such as Utah and Nevada, the government controls the vast majority of lands, protecting them from potential exploitation but hindering growth.
Morgan Lee, Associated Press
The startup Warp is best known for its modern, AI-empowered take on the terminalthe decades-old, text-based interface that’s invisible to most in a world of touchscreens and mice, but still beloved by programmers and system administrators.
The terminal is probably most familiar to the public from movies and TV shows, where its stark black background and arcane command-line language have come to symbolize hacker prowess. Warp added features that make the terminal and its often-cryptic commands less intimidating and easier to use, such as AI-enhanced autocomplete and suggestions, along with a collaborative system called Warp Drive that lets coworkers share frequently used commands and best practices.
Now, Warp is betting that a similar kind of interface will help developers command artificial intelligence, in a world where code is increasingly generated and deployed by typing prompts to AI rather than writing it directly.
[Image: Courtesy of Warp]
“We’re moving from a world where developers traditionally have done most of their work by hand to one where they’re doing their work by prompt with agents,” says Zach Lloyd, Warp’s founder and CEO.
Traditionally, developers have worked in an integrated development environment (IDE), which combines tools for navigating files, specialized text editing tabs for writing code, and easy access to tools that compile human-readable code into something computers can run. They’ve also often used terminal software like Warpsor more basic versionsto deploy code to servers, start automated processes, and troubleshoot errors.
Zack Lloyd [Photo: Courtesy of Warp]
But today, coders increasingly perform these tasks by issuing prompts to AI agents, which can generate code, execute commands to deploy it, and even diagnose problems on their own.
“Our thesis is that to support this new workflow, what is needed is a workbench that really is neither the IDE or the terminal,” Lloyd says.
Thats why Warp is launching what it calls an agentic development environmenta new class of tool that emphasizes terminal-style panes or tabs for typing prompts to AI agents, along with controls to help supervise the AIs operations. These controls regulate when AI agents need human approval to make changes to code or restrict them from executing certain commandssuch as deleting fileswithout explicit permission. Power users can open multiple tabs to interact with various agents, powered by AI from labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, and can monitor and guide them as they worksimilar to how developers have always invoked command-line tools from the terminal. AI agents can also execute terminal commands themselves under user supervision, useful for everything from managing cloud computing servers to debugging error messages.
An enhanced version of Warp Drive even allows users to share information with AI agents as well as with human coworkers.
[Image: Courtesy of Warp]
“We’ve made this investment even before LLMs of, how do you centralize the team’s knowledge,” says Lloyd. “And that’s super valuable for an agent to access as well.”
Since AI is still far from infallible, users can easily edit AI-generated code changescalled diffs (short for differences, in developer jargon)before approving them, or re-prompt the AI to correct errors. Individual Warp users can choose whether to operate entirely via prompts, or to open more traditional panes to edit code line by line, review AI changes, or use the classic Warp terminal.
[Image: Courtesy of Warp]
Lloyd says that integrating all of these features into a single AI-centric environment gives Warp an edge over other AI development tools like Cursor and Windsurf, which focus primarily on writing code. And by building a complete development environmentincluding coding and terminal toolsWarp has an advantage over Anthropic’s Claude Code, which operates from within a terminal, he says.
“We are one layer outside of that, so we can be the whole agentic development environment, which means that we can do things in terms of the user experience that they just simply can’t do,” Lloyd says. “We can have diffs editable, we can do system notifications, we can have a UX for managing agents across all your panes and tabs.”
Warp, which already has more than 500,000 users, plans to keep pricing the same as it rolls out these new features, with plans starting at $15 and $40 per month, alongside a limited free version and custom pricing for enterprise editions. Lloyd says revenue is growin fastbetween 5% and 15% per week during 2025and hes optimistic that trend will continue as developers look for tools to efficiently steer and collaborate with AI coding agents.
“It just is cool that that interface that we built for doing this with commands works extremely well for agents,” he says.
New analysis has found mobile phone users are being pinged with as many as 50 news alerts daily. Unsurprisingly, many are experiencing alert fatigue.
The use of news alerts on phones has grown over the past decade. Weekly use in the U.S. has risen from 6% to 23% since 2014 and from 3% to 18% in the U.K., according to a report published this month by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
The New York Times pushes out 10 news alerts per day on average, while BBC News averages 8.3 per day, according to a research tool used to monitor news alerts. Elsewhere, The Jerusalem Post and CNN Indonesia were among the top culprits, typically sending up to 50 alerts each day.
Some news aggregator apps send even more. The use of apps such as Apple News and Google on mobile devices means some users receive multiple alerts about the same story. Overwhelmed by the constant updates, 43% of people who no longer get news alerts say they have actively disabled them as a result of the barrage of notifications.
It is a tightrope that publishers have been walking, Nic Newman, the lead author of the report, told The Guardian. If they send too many, people uninstall the app, which is obviously a disaster. The classic problem is publishers know they shouldnt send too many individually. But collectively, there are always going to be some bad actors who are spoiling the party.
Some users have switched off altogether. I turned off all my news apps and sites after Trump was elected, one U.S. respondent told the researchers. I have switched off notifications again because its emotionally distressing, explained another.
Almost 80% of respondents noted that they currently do not receive any news alerts on their phone. Part of it is to do with news avoidance, according to Newman. Keeping up with the news can feel like a full-time job. Juggling work and other responsibilities, most people simply do not have the time or emotional capacity to stay up-to-date with every news story published throughout the day.
It doesnt mean to say theyre not interested in news, Newman told The Guardian. They just dont want news all the time, 24 hours a day, coming at you like an express train. Right now, a bullet train is probably more accurate.
Stocks rallied and oil prices fell Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced what appears to be a shaky ceasefire in the Israel-Iran war.The tentative truce proposed by Trump remained uncertain after Israel said Iran had launched missiles into its airspace less than three hours after the ceasefire went into effect. It vowed to retaliate.Still, investors took heart after Trump said Israel and Iran had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire” soon after Iran launched limited missile attacks Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites over the weekend.“The Middle East may still be smoldering, but as far as markets are concerned, the fire alarm has been shut off,” Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary.The future for the S&P 500 gained 0.8% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.7%. In morning trading Europe time, Germany’s DAX leaped 1.8% to 23,693.13, while the CAC 40 in Paris added 1.2% to 7,625.20. Britain’s FTSE 100 was up 0.3% at 8,784.68.Oil prices fell further, after tumbling on Monday as fears subsided of an Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for shipping crude. Oil prices have now given up almost all their gains since Israel attacked Iran on June 13, wiping out a roughly $10 per barrel risk premium based on the outside chance of a blockade at the strait.The price of oil initially jumped 6% after trading began Sunday night, a signal of rising worries as investors got their first chance to react to the U.S. bombings. But it quickly shed all those gains, with U.S. benchmark crude falling 7.2%. It dropped further early Tuesday, giving up 3% to $66.49 per barrel. It had briefly topped $78.Brent crude, the international standard, shed 3% early Tuesday to $69.38. That was just a few cents above where it traded on June 12 ahead of the Israeli attack on Iran.With the global oil market well supplied and the OPEC+ alliance of producing countries steadily increasing production, oil prices could be headed down, said Carsten Fritsch, commodities analyst at Commerzbank. “The crucial question now is whether the ceasefire will hold and a lasting peace solution can be found,” he wrote in a research note. “If so, a further fall in the oil price could be expected.”At their next meeting July 6, ministers from eight OPEC+ countries are expected to add another 410,000 barrels per day of production.In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.1% to 38,790.56 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong gained 2.1% to 24,177.07.The Shanghai Composite index climbed 1.2% to 3,420.57.In South Korea, the Kospi jumped 3% to 3,103.64, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 1% to 8,555.50.Taiwan’s Taiex rose 2.1% and India’s Sensex was up 0.6%. In Bangkok, the SET surged 2.5%.U.S. stocks rallied on Monday despite the United States’ bunker-busting entry into its war with Israel.The S&P 500 climbed 1% and the Dow industrials gained 0.9%. The Nasdaq composite index advanced 0.9%.Back in the U.S., Treasury yields eased after a top Federal Reserve official said she would support cutting rates at the Fed’s next meeting, as long as “inflation pressures remain contained.”Investors will be watching for Fed. Chair Jerome Powell’s comments to the U.S. Congress later Tuesday, analysts said. The yield on the 10-year Treasury held steady at 4.33% from 4.38% late Friday. The two-year Treasury yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed, dropped to 3.83% from 3.90%.The Federal Reserve has been hesitant to cut interest rates this year because it’s waiting to see how much higher tariffs imposed by Trump will hurt the U.S. economy and raise inflation.Inflation has remained relatively tame recently, but higher oil and gasoline prices would push it higher. That could keep the Fed on hold because cuts to rates can fan inflation while they also give the economy a boost.The U.S. dollar fell to 145.13 Japanese yen from 146.15 yen late Monday. The euro rose to $1.1597 from $1.1578.
David McHugh and Elaine Kurtenbach, AP Business Writers
Did you wake up at 4 a.m. on November 6, 2024? If so, you’re not alone.
The 4 a.m. club is a group of people, mostly on TikTok, who say they were spiritually activated when they woke up around 4 a.m. the night of the U.S. election.
Many reported a deep, unshakable sense that Kamala Harris had won, even though the official results coming in at the time said otherwise. Others woke with a feeling of dread.
“Social experiment for the women,” one TikTok user posted the day after the election. “Who else woke up between 2 and 4 a.m. the morning after the election right as they were announcing basically that he won?” She continued: “Clearly, that was our first call to the coven, and we need to gather.
@heartmeggieheart fr what was that original sound – meggie
Now they are doing just that under the name the 4 am Club, coined by professional psychic medium Gia Prism.
I didnt set out to create the 4 a.m. club; it sprung up organically as thousands of us discovered we had a shared mystical experience on election night, she told Fast Company. My journey with it began as I spoke of my personal experience the morning after the election. The post immediately blew up and I watched as thousands of comments poured in from people who had the same experience.
According to the theory, 4 a.m. was the moment two timelinesone where Kamala Harris became president, and the one we are currently existing in, where Donald Trump became presidentsplit, causing many across America to wake with a start.
In the clerb we all awake, one comment beneath Prisms video read. 4 am club here but are we all just so exhausted? another added. With so much on the line, the 4 a.m. club isnt about spiritually bypassing the election results; members say its a call to action.
@giaprism Welcome to the 4 am Club! Heres how things work around here #4amclub #psychictok #witchtok #spiritualawakening #ascension #newearthnow #divinefeminine #healing #keepitkamala #5D #newearth #wethepeople original sound – Gia Prism
My content focuses equally on spiritual perspectives and healing opportunities as well as social justice and political activism, Prism tells Fast Company. She hosts group healing meditations but also encourages participation in the physical world: attending protests, donating to causes, and speaking truth to power. There’s even merch.
@giaprism Its official! Get your merch herr and sign up to join the club! Ill be sending out emails when were ready to take action #4amclub #werideatdawn #keepitkamala original sound – Gia Prism
They also have unwavering hope for the future. We do not believe that the results we see now are the results we’re going to end up with, Prism said in a video posted in December 2024. We have a higher hope, and the reason we have a higher hope is because we were part of something unexplainable that happened to us on election night, and that is why we call it the 4 am Club.
You dont actually have to have woken up at 4 a.m. on November 6 to join.
A tentative truce faltered Tuesday when Israel accused Iran of launching missiles into its airspace after the ceasefire was supposed to take effect and vowed to retaliate.Iran’s military denied firing on Israel, state media reportedbut explosions boomed and sirens sounded across northern Israel midmorning, and an Israeli military official said two Iranian missiles were intercepted.U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for the NATO summit at The Hague that in his view, both sides had violated the nascent agreement he had announced earlier.“They violated it but Israel violated it too,” Trump said. “I’m not happy with Israel.”On social media, he called on Israel to stop dropping bombs and bring its pilots home.The conflict, now in its 12th day, began with Israel targeting Iranian nuclear and military sites, saying it could not allow Tehran to develop atomic weaponsand that it feared the Islamic Republic was close. Iran has long maintained that its program is peaceful.Many worried the war might widen after the U.S. joined the attacks by dropping bunker-buster bombs over the weekend and Israel expanded the kinds of targets it was hitting.But after Tehran launched a limited retaliatory strike on a U.S. military base in Qatar on Monday, Trump announced the ceasefire.Both sides accepted the agreement, but it is now unclear if it will hold.“Tehran will tremble,” Israeli Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich warned on X, raising the specter that the war might continue.
Israel accuses Iran of violating the truce. Iran denies that
An Israeli military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity in line with military regulations said Iran launched two missiles at Israel hours into the tenuous ceasefire. Both were intercepted, the official said.Iranian state television reported that the military denied firing missiles after the start of the ceasefirewhile accusing Israel of conducting strikes. It offered no evidence to support the claim of Israeli fire, with the last reports of such attacks coming before dawn.Part of the difficulty in sorting out the competing claims was that Trump’s social media post announcing the ceasefire said Iran would begin holding its fire hours earlier than Israel. He later, however, announced that the ceasefire was in effect, even though the window he initially gave for Israel had not yet closed.After accusing Iran of violating the ceasefire, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed Israel’s military to resume “the intense operations to attack Tehran and to destroy targets of the regime and terror infrastructure.”
Breakthrough declared by Trump wobbles in initial hours
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had agreed to a bilateral ceasefire with Iran in coordination with Trump, while pledging to respond to any subsequent violation.He said that Israel had achieved all of its war goals, including removing the threat of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.An announcement on Iranian state TV later said the ceasefire was in effect. So did Trump, who posted: “THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!”Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that his country would not fire at Israel if it was not fired upon, but that a “final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.”To secure the ceasefire, Trump had communicated directly with Netanyahu, according to a senior White House official who insisted on anonymity to discuss the Monday talks. Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff communicated with the Iranians through direct and indirect channels.The White House has maintained that the U.S. bombing helped get the Israelis to agree to the ceasefire and that the Qatari government helped to broker the deal.It’s unclear what role Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s leader, played in the talks. He said earlier on social media that he would not surrender.
Deal announced after hostilities spread
The shaky ceasefire came after hostilities spread further across the region.Israel’s military said Iran launched 20 missiles toward Israel before the ceasefire began on Tuesday morning. Police said they damaged at least three densely packed residential buildings in the city of Beersheba. First responders said they retrieved four bodies from one building and were searching for more. Earlier, the Fire and Rescue service said five bodies were found before revising the number downward. At least 20 people were injured.Outside, the shells of burned out cars littered the streets. Broken glass and rubble covered the area. Police said some people were injured while inside their apartments’ reinforced safe rooms, which are meant to withstand rockets but not direct hits from ballistic missiles.Iran launched a limited missile attack Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for earlier American bombing of its nuclear sites. The U.S. was warned by Iran in advance, and there were no casualties.Drones attacked military bases in Iraq overnight, including some housing U.S. troops, the Iraqi army and a US military official said Tuesday.A senior U.S. military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly, said U.S. forces had shot down drones attacking Ain al-Assad in the desert in western Iraq and at a base next to the Baghdad airport, while another one crashed.No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attacks in Iraq. Some Iran-backed Iraqi militias had previously threatened to target U.S. bases if the U.S. attacked Iran.
Conflict has killed hundreds
In Israel, at least 28 people have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded in the war. Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 974 people and wounded 3,458 others, according to the Washington-based group Human Rights Activists.The group, which has provided detailed casualty figures from Iranian unrest, said of those killed, it identified 387 civilians and 268 security force personnel.The U.S. has evacuated some 250 American citizens and their immediate family members from Israel by government, military and charter flights that began over the weekend, a State Department official said.There are roughly 700,000 American citizens, most of them dual U.S.-Israeli citizens, believed to be in Israel.
Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Lidman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writers David Rising in Dubai, Josef Federman in Jerusalem, Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad, Abby Sewell in Beirut and Amir Vahdat in Iran contributed to this report.
Sam Mednick, Jon Gambrell and Melanie Lidman, Associated Press
Rite Aid, whose pharmacies were once ubiquitous across large parts of America, has announced another wave of store closures.
This time, the closures encompass more than 100 locations across 11 states. However, they are just the latest wave of Rite Aid store closures that follow the company’s second bankruptcy filing earlier this year. Heres what you need to know about the latest Rite Aid closures.
Why is Rite Aid closing stores?
Rite Aid is going out of business. The struggling pharmacy chain filed for bankruptcy in May. But that bankruptcy isnt its first. The company had previously filed for bankruptcy in 2023. Rite Aid had hoped that its 2023 bankruptcy would be able to give it some financial breathing room, after which the company could turn itself around.
Things did not work out as Rite Aid had intended. Even after the 2023 bankruptcy, Rite Aid struggled with inventory challenges and strained vendor relations, as Fast Company previously reported.
However, while some of its problems were unique to the chain, Rite Aid also faced many issues that are increasingly common to all drugstore chains. Those problems include diminished foot traffic from changing consumer behaviors as people increasingly turn to e-commerce giants like Amazon to meet their pharmacy needs and purchase everyday household items.
Like many other retailers, Rite Aid is also struggling with a decrease in consumer confidence. Inflationary pressures and uncertainty about the economy are weighing heavily on people’s minds, leading them to be more cautious about how and where they spend their money.
Which Rite Aid stores are the latest to close in June?
Rite Aid has now announced the next wave of location closures. These locations were revealed in court documents Rite Aid filed on June 20. In total, Rite Aid said 118 locations will be closing in this round.
Some of the hardest hit states in this round of closures include California, Pennsylvania, and New York. The stores closing in this round include:
405 WEST MAIN STREET BRAWLEY CA 92227
14629 7TH STREET VICTORVILLE CA 92395
17441 MAIN STREET HESPERIA CA 92345
2023 LYCOMING CREEK ROAD WILLIAMSPORT PA 17701
508 EAST SECOND STREET OIL CITY PA 16301
1698 PULASKI HIGHWAY BEAR DE 19701
101 SOUTH MAIN STREET FORKED RIVER NJ 08731
96 NORTH FLOWERS MILL ROAD LANGHORNE PA 19047
2260 JERUSALEM AVENUE NORTH BELLMORE NY 11710
1854 CORONADO AVENUE SAN DIEGO CA 92154
1815 SOUTH VERMONT AVENUE LOS ANGELES CA 90006
23975 IRONWOOD AVENUE MORENO VALLEY CA 92557
600 WEST VENTURA STREET FILLMORE CA 93015
7020 WEST STATE STREET BOISE ID 83714
85-10 NORTHERN BOULEVARD JACKSON HEIGHTS NY 11372
653 NORTH GOLDEN STATE BLVD. TURLOCK CA 95380
655 RUSSELL BOULEVARD DAVIS CA 95616
3225 PANAMA LANE BAKERSFIELD CA 93313
1035 W ORANGETHORPE AVENUE FULLERTON CA 92833
1225 WESTERN AVENUE ALBANY NY 12203
5040 CITY LINE AVENUE PHILADELPHIA PA 19131
4380 PARK HEIGHTS AVE. BALTIMORE MD 21215
415 EAST QUEEN STREET CHAMBERSBURG PA 17201
15890 SOQUEL CANYON PARKWAY CHINO HILLS CA 91709
115 FIFTH STREET ELLWOOD CITY PA 16117
9910 FRANKFORD AVENUE PHILADELPHIA PA 19114
1777 NORTH KEYSER AVENUE SCRANTON PA 18508
409 STOKES ROAD MEDFORD NJ 08055
10 SNYDER AVENUE PHILADELPHIA PA 19148
1814 SPRING ROAD CARLISLE PA 17013
53 HOOKSETT ROAD MANCHESTER NH 03104
1000 W MONTE VISTA AVENUE TURLOCK CA 95382
1245 WEST YOSEMITE AVENUE MANTECA CA 95337
5507 NESCONSET HWY STE 100 MOUNT SINAI NY 11766
1841 EAST 4TH STREET ONTARIO CA 91764
320 SMITH STREET BROOKLYN NY 11231
1720 AVIATION BOULEVARD REDONDO BEACH CA 90278
13460 HIGHLANDS PLACE SAN DIEGO CA 92130
17266 SATICOY STREET VAN NUYS CA 91406
2516 JAMACHA ROAD EL CAJON CA 92019
125 DANBURY ROAD. RIDGEFIELD CT 06877
16000 MONTEREY STREET MORGAN HILL CA 95037
36729 OLD MILL ROAD MILLVILLE DE 19967
1526 PALOS VERDES MALL WALNUT CREEK CA 94597
2315 WILLIAM STREET BUFFALO NY 14206
8530 TRANSIT RD AMHERST NY 14221
2108 MACARTHUR ROAD WHITEHALL PA 18052
1529 FREEPORT ROAD NATRONA HEIGHTS PA 15065
825A EAST CHESTNUT STREET LANCASTER PA 17602
107 MAIN STREET GREENFIELD MA 01301
6912 NEW FALLS ROAD LEVITTOWN PA 19057
10 BENNING STREET WEST LEBANON NH 03784
115 LEADER HEIGHTS ROAD YORK PA 17403
54 NORTH MAIN STREET CARBONDALE PA 18407
455-K NORTH ENOLA ROAD ENOLA PA 17025
1421 EAST WASHINGTON BLVD PASADENA CA 91104
1151 CRESTON ROAD PASO ROBLES CA 93446
4348 BONITA ROAD BONITA CA 91902
1320 WEST HILLSDALE BLVD. SAN MATEO CA 94403
2020 E COPPER AVENUE FRESNO CA 93730
605 NORTH COLONY ROAD WALLINGFORD CT 06492
43-20 BELL BLVD. BAYSIDE NY 11361
22833 BOTHELL EVERETT HWY BOTHELL WA 98021
#4 POLLY DRUMMOND S.C. NEWARK DE 19711
11673 CHERRY AVENUE FONTANA CA 92337
4937 TRANSIT ROAD DEPEW NY 14043
6001 COFFEE ROAD BAKERSFIELD CA 93308
310 WEST LAKE STREET MOUNT SHASTA CA 96067
599 YORK ROAD WARMINSTER PA 18974
1781 STEFKO BOULEVARD BETHLEHEM PA 18017
1360 BRACE ROAD CHERRY HILL NJ 08034
1003 PULASKI HIGHWAY HAVRE DE GRACE MD 21078
1307 PHOENIXVILLE PIKE WEST CHESTER PA 19380
231 WEST STREET GETTYSBURG PA 17325
7418 OXFORD AVENUE PHILADELPHIA PA 19111
2810 MEMORIAL HIGHWAY SHAVERTOWN PA 18708
1896 ROUTE 6 CARMEL NY 10512
500 MAIN STREET LIVINGSTON CA 95334
744 WOLCOTT ROAD WOLCOTT CT 06716
1665 ALPINE BOULEVARD ALPINE CA 91901
654 COLVIN AVENUE KENMORE NY 14217
18112 CULVER DRIVE IRVINE CA 92612
1251 JOHNSON AVENUE SAN LUIS OBISPO CA 93401
1323 EAST MAIN AVENUE PUYALLUP WA 98372
230 KELSO DRIVE KELSO WA 98626
102-30 ATLANTIC AVENUE OZONE PARK NY 11416
577 MAST ROAD MANCHESTER NH 03102
201 CONKLIN AVENUE BINGHAMTON NY 13903
22803 44TH AVE W MOUNTLAKE TERRACE WA 98043
832 NORTH LANSDOWNE AVE. DREXEL HILL PA 19026
731 CENTER STREET LEWISTON NY 14092
101 WHITE HORSE PIKE CLEMENTON NJ 08021
4534 BROADWAY BLVD. MONROEVILLE PA 15146
1465-15 WEST BROAD STREET QUAKERTOWN PA 18951
5 EAST MAIN STREET NANTICOKE PA 18634
2210 STATE HILL ROAD WYOMISSING PA 19610
4999 JONESTOWN RD HARRISBURG PA 17109
1520 ROCK SPRING ROAD FOREST HILL MD 21050
2674 EGYPT ROAD AUDUBON PA 19403
18 INDIAN HEAD ROAD KINGS PARK NY 11754
1107 CALLOWAY DRIVE BAKERSFIELD CA 93312
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Where is the full list of past Rite Aid closures?
With this latest round of June closures, Rite Aid has now announced the closure of 947 stores since May. Here’s the full list of earlier closing notices:
May 5: 47 initial locations
May 9: 68 additional locations
May 16: 95 additional locations
May 23: 151 additional locations
May 30: 111 additional locations
June 5: 25 additional locations
June 6: 207 additional locations
June 13: 125 additional locations
June 20: 118 locations (listed above)
Fast Company has reached out to Rite Aid to ask about the timeline of the closures. We’ll update this post if we hear back.
How many more Rite Aid stores will close?
When Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy in May, the company said it had 1,277 stores in operation. Most of the stores will be closed entirely, with some others being sold to competitors. In May, competitor CVS Pharmacy agreed to take over 64 Rite Aid stores.
With 947 stores confirmed to be closing, Rite Aid has now announced that it will shutter nearly 74% of the stores it operated when it filed for bankruptcy. A court-approved auction is planned for today to sell off Rite Aid’s remaining assets.
Most of the time, stress is a part of work that may be annoying, but isnt debilitating. As I have written about many times, stress is just the emotion you experience when you are focused on avoiding some threat or calamity in your environment. Ideally the stress you experience gives you a boost of energy to tackle difficult problems at work.
Sometimes, though, stress causes more problems than it solves. This is particularly true under two conditions: when it makes it difficult for you to make any progress on issues at work, and when it bleeds through into your personal life and sabotages your time away from the office so you cant relax. In those cases, you need to better manage your work stress.
What can you do to keep work stress from overrunning your life?
Find your energy sweet spot
At work, stress gets in the way when you get over-energized. There is a long history of evidence suggesting that there is an optimal level of energy for getting work done: too little, and you have no motivation to work on key tasks; too much, and your energy level is paralyzing. You may pace the room, or flip between tasks, but you cant concentrate.
In between is a sweet spot in which you have enough energy to focus on a critical task and stay engaged. You want to find that zone in which you work effectively. Get a sense for what it feels like.
When your stress level builds to the point that you are no longer working at your peak, use strategies to dissipate some of that arousal. Take a walk. Do some deep breathing. Talk with a colleague. Only return to your work when you feel like youre able to focus and make progress. Otherwise, your lack of progress is likely to create additional stress and ramp your energy level back up.
Build a barrier
When that work stress also affects your home life, then you may need to create a moat that the stress cant cross. Find some kind of activity you can do during or after your commute home from work (even if that commute involves simply shutting your computer, because you work from home).
If you can delay the start of your family obligations, then consider doing some exercise, reading a book for pleasure, or engaging in another hobby like playing an instrument, knitting, or crafting. Do something active rather than passive. When you watch TV, for example, you may reduce your energy level, but you dont change your thinking pattern.
If you really have to dive into your home responsibilities, then see if you can create a change in thinking while also addressing the needs of your family. Turn chores into a game. Pair the work you have to do with great music or an audio book. Find something you look forward to that will shift your mindset.
Work on your sleep routine
Also, dont neglect your sleep routine. If you have a lot of work stress and then your home life is busy, you may feel like you should stay awake in order to have some time doing things you enjoy. Resist that temptation.
Sleep is a critical component of your mental and physical health. If work stress starts to interfere with your ability to sleep, work on developing a sleep routine. Disconnect from devices at least 30 minutes before you want to sleep. Create a more consistent routine around your sleep so that your body develops habits to want to fall asleep. Consider listening to sleep meditations so that you can relax and sleep.
Your consistent sleep routine will help with your focus and resilience, which will benefit you both at work and at home.
Last week, some of the worlds most notable brands, creatives, and executives gathered at Cannes Lions to explore the issues shaping the future of advertising and communicationsfrom the rise of AI to the growing importance of ESG to the topic currently under fire: diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Since January, many across the industry have noted a shift. The momentum behind DEIonce front and centerhas been dimmed by growing backlash, driven largely by U.S. political pressure and a wave of corporate rollbacks. These critics are trying to distract, deflect, and delay progress. But they wont win.
Despite the backlash, it wasnt hard to find leaders at the festival choosing courage over caution. Leaders like Adrianne C. Smith, founder of the Cannes Can: Diversity Collective (CC:DC) and chief inclusion and impact officer at FleishmanHillard, who opened the fifth Inkwell Beach installation with a clear message: Dont talk about it. Be about it. This call to action resonated with me and many others, but it raises an important question: were brands and their leaders in attendance truly listening?
As we head into the second half of 2025, one thing is clear: the metric brands must begin to track, integrate, and prioritize is Return on Inclusion. Its the ROI that will define the future of the creative industriesand its one brands can no longer afford to ignore. Heres why.
Brands Should Hit the DEI Reset ButtonAs Long as Its Done with Intention
Amid the glitter and glamour, spaces like Inkwell Beach stand outnot as performative checkboxes, but as intentional, purpose-driven platforms for real progress. One of the most rewarding aspects of Cannes Lions is hearing diverse perspectives that truly move our industries forward.
One of these leaders is Frank Starling, VP and Chief DEI Officer for Cannes Lions. We sat down to discuss whats next for DEI, what brands should be thinking about now, and where they can focus to make a meaningful impact. As Frank pointed out, as a world, we are living in a paradox: hyperconnected, yet more fragmented than ever. This is why brands must prioritize both relevance and resonance and be ready to answer two crucial questions:
How do we reset with intention? And what does that look like inside our organization?
In 2025, the workplace is more generationally diverse than ever. According to SHRM, as many as five generationstraditionalists, baby boomers, Gen X, millennials, and Gen Zcan now be found at the same company, sometimes at the same table. These employees need to feel safepsychologically and physically. And its up to brands to make more, not less, room for the unique perspectives, values, and lived experiences they bring.
According to Frank, in todays fast-changing world, we must build and foster climates that spark creativity and innovation. Every organizations DEI reset will look differentbut it must be rooted in intention.
Creativity Drives Disruption. And You Cant Spell Creativity without E&I.
When I launched The Sway Effect in 2019, I knew two things were nonnegotiable: diversity, equity, and inclusion had to be central to everything that we do, and we would only collaborate with brands that believed inclusivity leads to the best work.
Research continues to prove this: according to Harvard Business Review, inclusive organizations are
73% more likely to reap innovation income
70% more likely to capture new markets
up to 50% more likely to make better decisions, and
up to 36% more likely to have above-average profitability.
The bottom line is, inclusivity separates the leaders from the followersand shows both employees and customers that you are showing up for the communities that you represent and serve.
Despite the clear value of this approach, fearnot convictionis driving too much of todays creative work. And its not surprising, with critics like Elon Musk declaring that DEI must die and the U.S. government labeling some DEI efforts as egregious and discriminatory.
But apprehension cannot outweigh the responsibility to build safe, inclusive workplacesand create lasting impact across our industries. After all, you cant spell creativity without E&IEquity and Inclusion. When I shared my 2025 (and beyond) mission statement with Frank, heres how he expanded on the vision:
Ensure that inclusive leadership is at the center of your organization.That means collaborating across differences, challenging bias, and leading with courage and cultural intelligence.
Embed inclusion to spark innovation and creativity. Make space for everyone to speak up, challenge ideas, and be themselves. That sense of belonging fuels innovation.
Focus on impact over volume. Pull back, assess what will truly move the needle, and invest your time, budget, and resources there.
The Future Belongs to Those Who Show Upand Stay the Course
As the dust settles from a thought-provoking week on the Croisette, one thing is clear: there will always be a place for purpose. My message to brands post-Cannes is thismeasure DEI success not just by return on investment, but by Return on Inclusion. Thats what will shape the future of creativity, culture, and DEI. Lead the conversations. Build the culture. Drive the change. Those are the brandsand the leadersthat will always have a seat at my table.
