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It wasn’t just cough and cold season that drove Rite Aid Corp.’s better-than-expected fiscal third-quarter earnings beat.“It’s worth noting that Thrifty Ice Cream, which we recently expanded to 900 additional stores, was a meaningful contributor to our third-quarter growth,” said James Peters, Rite Aid’s chief operating officer, on the earnings call, according to a FactSet transcript.
Rite Aid stock ended Thursday up 42.3%, the biggest one-day percentage gain since Oct. 27, 2015. Shares closed Friday up 18.5%, with the stock up 85.3% for the week. There was a “strong start” to cold season, which Peters said contributed to the 1% same-store sales growth during the quarter.
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