When Rite Aid acquired the Thrifty brand in the mid-1990s, it did so to expand its market reach. Thrifty Ice Cream soon ...

For weeks, KTLA has been tracking the uncertain future of Thrifty Ice Cream. The beloved California institution appears to have finally navigated the rocky road of Rite Aid’s closures, and now, with ...

Thrifty Ice Cream is set to expand with new flavors and distribution after Rite Aid's bankruptcy, its new owners said in an ...

More details on the future of the beloved Thrifty Ice Cream brand were released by its new owner after concerns that its ...

But now, as one of Rite Aid's assets, Thrifty Ice Cream will be for sale at a June 20 auction as part of the company's bankruptcy proceedings, according to Reuters.

Rite Aid announced another round of store closures that same year, shuttering 31 locations in California. In Los Angeles ...

Thrifty began out of a small factory in West Hollywood, California, in 1940. It was sold exclusively at the now-defunct Thrifty Drug Store chain, according to the ice cream company's website.

Rite Aid acquired Thrifty Ice Cream in 1996, according to the Los Angeles Times. Some of the drugstore's locations even kept with tradition to continue serving Thrifty Ice Cream in cones at ice ...