Rite Aid is now in post-confirmation administration, with trust-led claims reconciliation and litigation enforcement driving the remaining docket rather than a going-concern sale or new-money restructuring. The cases began on October 15, 2023, when Rite Aid and affiliated debtors filed chapter 11 petitions in New Jersey, followed by the Stein first-day declarationDkt. 20 describing a large retail pharmacy platform burdened by secured and unsecured note debt, ABL and FILO obligations, lease liabilities, and operating pressures that required court-supervised balance-sheet and operational restructuring.
The early case was shaped by liquidity control and lender protections: the debtors sought authority to obtain postpetition financing, use cash collateral, grant liens and superpriority claims, provide adequate protection, and schedule a final DIP hearing through the Scheidemann DIP financing declarationDkt. 41. The restructuring then moved to a plan path, with the debtors filing the Second Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of ReorganizationDkt. 3833 in June 2024 as the operative reorganization framework.
The current docket reflects execution of that plan framework through trusts and residual contested matters. In April 2025, the court ordered payment of Salesforce cure and administrative amounts tied to the debtors' eighth amended plan supplement through the Salesforce cure-payment orderDkt. 5898. More recently, RAD Sub-Trust A sought omnibus claims objection procedures to reconcile more than 439,000 filed claims, including authority to file substantive omnibus objections and exceed the usual 100-claim limit, through the ; the court granted that relief in the .
Near term, the remaining live process is centered on trust enforcement and claim cleanup. A hearing on the trustee's motion to enforce the plan and confirmation order against McKesson was adjourned to June 9, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. under the adjournment determinationDkt. 7198. Separately, the court has pushed insurance-coverage disputes away from the bankruptcy forum: after an April 20, 2026 ruling, it dismissed the adversary complaint without prejudice and Sub-Trust B's cross-claims with prejudice in that proceeding while preserving pursuit in the Delaware coverage action through the adversary dismissal orderDkt. 114.
