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- LaVerdiere's Super Drug Stores (often called LaVerdiere's) was a pharmacy chain based in Waterville, Maine. At its peak, the company operated more than 70 stores in small towns throughout Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Aside from the pharmacy, the stores sold general items, as well as toys and Halloween and Christmas decorations. In the 1980s, some LaVerdiere's locations featured an arcade, called Action Family Arcade. LaVerdiere's operated 42 Action Family Arcades in the 1980s. In 1994, Rite Aid purchased the company as part of its expansion into Northern New England. Company president Stephen LaVerdiere cited repeal of the state's blue laws as a factor making it more difficult to compete with national chains: Our stores were specifically designed to be 5,000 sq. ft. so that we would be able to remain open on Sunday. Any store larger than that was not permitted to stay open on Sunday. In that way, we were able to bring in business seven days a week. When that law was repealed, we found ourselves competing on Sunday with mass-merchandisers as well as big supermarkets. Evariste LaVerdiere founded the company on Main St., Waterville, Maine in 1922 with a news stand that grew into a soda fountain and later a drug store. Rite Aid's successor in Maine, Walgreens, continues to operate in many of the former LaVerdiere's locations to this day. (en)
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- Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont (en)
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- in Waterville, Maine (en)
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- Reginald LaVerdiere, president (en)
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- File:Laverdiere's Drug Stores logo.png (en)
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- LaVerdiere's Drug Stores (en)
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- LaVerdiere's Super Drug Stores (often called LaVerdiere's) was a pharmacy chain based in Waterville, Maine. At its peak, the company operated more than 70 stores in small towns throughout Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Aside from the pharmacy, the stores sold general items, as well as toys and Halloween and Christmas decorations. In the 1980s, some LaVerdiere's locations featured an arcade, called Action Family Arcade. LaVerdiere's operated 42 Action Family Arcades in the 1980s. (en)
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- LaVerdiere's Drug Stores (en)
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