But you could probably have bought a half-gallon of Thrifty ice cream at RA for the same price or less as the grocery store. :) You're paying a big premium when

But you could probably have bought a half-gallon of Thrifty ice cream at RA for the same price or less as the grocery store. :) You're paying a big premium when you're buying it per-scoop. I know part of Thrifty's original schtick was being low prices and still high quality, and if they were still keeping in line with that the price would be more like 50¢/scoop rather than $1.79 -- but AFAIK, the ice cream mostly went away after RiteAid bought the original Thrifty drug store and they've only started bringing it back over the last few years, at least in the SF Bay Area. I do hope they keep the ice cream, though, just on general principle: the bigger retail chains get, the less character they seem to retain. It was sad for me to see CVS buy Long's Drugs a few years back -- Long's stores tended to be bigger and just a little more charmingly eclectic.