WAREHOUSE JOBS OPEN TO HUNDREDS.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Rite Aid Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) is a United States retailer and pharmacy chain, operating over 5,000 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia. Rite Aid Corporation is one of the nation's leading drugstore chains. Corp. is planning an initial hiring of 500 to 600 workers to staff the mammoth mammoth, name for several large prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene epoch. warehouse/distribution center the company is building. The planned opening of the 1 million-square-foot distribution center is still months away, but the company is holding a job fair Thursday to begin the hiring process. ``The amount of workers we plan to hire initially is 500 to 600. By the year 2005 we should be up to 800 to 1,000,'' said company spokeswoman Jody Cook. ``We are hiring everything from maintenance workers to managers.'' The job fair will run from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Stanley Kleiner Building at Lancaster City Park, 43011 10th St. W. The job fair is being co-sponsored by the city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. and the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley One-stop Career Center, a project of several organizations, including the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, to help job hunters find employment and job training. Rite Aid, a drug store chain giant, is spending more than $70 million to build the distribution center on 88 acres at 30th Street West between avenues G-8 and H. Construction workers recently erected the walls for the distribution center, making it one of the most visible roadside sights in the Antelope Valley. Rite Aid, which has more than 3,900 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , received offers from Arizona and Nevada for the distribution center before opting for Lancaster. City officials expect the Rite Aid distribution center and a recently completed distribution center for the crafts store chain Michaels to anchor development of the Fox Field Corridor, an industrial area between Fox Airfield and the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. . City officials envision the area serving warehouse and light manufacturing companies. |
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