Is there an established process for handling a brand going out of business and closing all of their stores? Rite Aid was a chain of pharmacies in the US that went out of business in October 2025. There are still 1798 uses of brand:wikidata=Q3433273. How should this be dealt with?
In general, I think stores for an out of business brand should have their brand info removed from all instances. But. . .
The Rite-Aid situation is muddled by the fact that some stores out right closed while others were taken over and rebranded. While it is true that Rite-Aid is no more, the status of each location should be checked to see if the building is now vacant, taken over by another pharmacy company, or repurposed to some other type of use or merchandise. Based on that, I think the safe way to deal with this would be to start a Map Roulette challenge and let people on the ground in the area retag as appropriate.
For what it’s worth, last October I retagged the old Rite-Aid location in my town to:
shop=vacant
was:brand:wikidata=Q3433273
was:brand=Rite Aid
was:name=Rite Aid
was:shop=chemist
in general there is no established process
sadly, often such zombie POIs linger
it is more complicated that in some cases shops may continue to use old locations, sometimes with unchanged branding (likeliness of that depends on multiple factors)
see say Bulk close Jo-Ann stores for a similar specific case
given that Rite-Aids are no more (even if it is still pharmacy it is a different pharmacy, right?) I think it would be fine to mass set all of them to being marked as vacant
but I lack local knowledge and any such mass edits should be discussed with local community
with MR you will also often effectively get bot edit, it is not limited to people in given area (though maybe you can set up unlisted challenge?)
note that disused:amenity=pharmacy brand:wikidata=Q3433273 is an acceptable tagging