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In May 2025, Rite Aid filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy nationwide. The company then announced plans to close all of its approximately 1,900 U.S. stores. As the headquarters state, Pennsylvania was particularly hard hit. The state had 280 stores slated for closure, in addition to the 98 that had already closed before the announcement. Warehouses and corporate headquarters were also affected. This closure accounts for 19% of in-state pharmacies.
This case study explores how EconoVue facilitated Pennsylvania’s Rite Aid Rapid Response efforts. It also examines how EconoVue conducted a gap-analysis visualization to identify “pharmacy desert areas” and the service-loss impact to citizens caused by closures.
Read more about the challenges, solutions, and program success in the full case study. Read other case studies.
South Bay WIB Rapid Response Case Study
In October 2024, Phillips 66, a Texas-based company, announced plans to close its two Los Angeles campuses, scheduled for December 2025. This large-scale layoff is expected to affect approximately 600 union and non-union employees and 300 contractors. Since the two campuses span two workforce regions. The response effort required a collaboration with the South Bay Workforce Investment Board and the City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board.
This case study explores how EconoVue supported South Bay WIB in developing a comprehensive rapid-response program for Phillips 66.
Read more about the challenges, solutions, and program success in the full case study.
As we close out 2025, EconoVue would like to showcase our customers’ impact on their local businesses, job seekers, and the local community. These case studies demonstrate the value of data-driven business engagement for workforce programs nationwide.
We invite you to check out EconoVue’s Most Read Case Studies of 2025.
All are inspiring reads – and we congratulate all WDBs for the great work they do every day. Click below:
1. Workforce Central Success Story > READ NOW
2. SELACO Sector Strategies Success Story > READ NOW
3. AAWDC Apprenticeship Success Story > READ NOW
4. CareerSource Capital Region Success Story > READ NOW
5. AAWDC Bridge Collapse Success Story > READ NOW
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As we close out 2024, EconoVue would like to showcase our customers’ impact on their local businesses, job seekers, and the local community. These case studies demonstrate the value of data-driven business engagement for workforce programs nationwide.
We invite you to check out EconoVue’s Most Read Case Studies of 2024.
All are inspiring reads – and we congratulate all WDBs for the great work they do every day. Click below:
1. SELACO Sector Strategies Success Story >READ NOW
2. Workforce Central Success Story > READ NOW
3. Anne Arundel County Bridge Collapse Success Story > READ NOW
4. CareerSource Capital Region Success Story > READ NOW
5. California County Business Engagement Success Story >READ NOW
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AAWDC Apprenticeship Program Case Study
The marine trade industry is a cornerstone of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County’s economies, deeply interwoven with their identity and prosperity. However, the marine trade sector faces significant challenges in finding skilled employees.
This case study explores how EconoVue supported Anne Arundel County in building a targeted business outreach strategy for its Marine Apprenticeship program.
Read more about the challenges, solution, and program success in the full case study.
CareerSource Capital Region Case Study
CareerSource Capital Region wanted a more proactive approach to connect employers with qualified, skilled talent and Floridians with employment and career development opportunities to achieve economic prosperity in Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, and Wakulla counties.
This case study explores how EconoVue supported CareerSource Capital Region in developing a targeted outreach strategy for its first Growing Forward Employer Resource Luncheon and how it evolved into a more strategic targeted approach to business engagement.
Read more about the challenges, solution, and program success in the full case study.
WorkForce Central, based in Pierce County, Washington, serves the second-most populous county in the state. As a vital link between job seekers and employers, WorkForce Central recognized the need for a more strategic and data-driven approach to business engagement within its workforce programs. This case study explores how EconoVue has transformed WorkForce Central’s operations, leading to improved program outcomes and stronger connections between job seekers and employers.
Read more about the challenges, solutions, and program success in the full case study.
On March 26, 2024, the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge dramatically affected the regional business ecosystem and workforce. This bridge was crucial for the Baltimore Beltway (I-695), linking Dundalk in Baltimore County with Hawkins Point—a remote southern area of Baltimore crossing into Anne Arundel County.
Anne Arundel Economic Development (AAEDC) and Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation (AAWDC) quickly mobilized to gauge the impact and support affected businesses. The dependency on the bridge for employee transit and port-related commerce called for a targeted response to maintain local economic integrity.
Read how EconoVue was instrumental in developing the strategic response to alleviate the adverse effects of the bridge collapse on the business community, in conjunction with the state of Maryland’s relief programs, ensuring a coordinated effort towards recovery.
California County Relief Grant Program Case Study
A Workforce Development Board (WDB) from a county on the Pacific coast in the State of California received a directive from its Board of Supervisors to identify small businesses in its districts that are eligible for relief grant funding. Initially, $1.2 million was allocated to support the most vulnerable companies with fewer than 50 employees in the most vulnerable sectors impacted by the Pandemic.
There was a real urgency to help vulnerable small businesses impacted by the Pandemic. Over 90% of small businesses in the County have fewer than 50 employees, spanning an expansive geographical area.
Read more about the County’s successful targeted business outreach which resulted in subsequent rounds of funding.
COVID-19 Grant Program Case Study
The Workforce Alliance of the North Bay (WANB) spans California’s Lake, Marin, Mendocino, and Napa counties. The WANB Region is larger than some states and represents 2% of the California economy, with $46 billion in business revenue and $56 billion in personal income.
All four counties offered micro-business COVID-19 Relief Grants through the local small business development centers (SBDCs) and economic development organizations. The grant provided $2,500 to eligible businesses. The challenge was to quickly narrow down the target audience for outreach to a competitive micro-grant program, given the rigorous eligibility requirements for micro-businesses.
Read more about how EonoVue accelerated a targeted business outreach for the competitive grant program.
EconoVue™ is your window to business and workforce insight.
Founded in Silicon Valley in 1999, and now based in Arlington, VA, EconoVue, Inc. is a woman-owned small business with a single mission: to help our clients visualize data and gain actionable insight into the past, present and future of their local and regional economies and workforce.
Originally founded as The Urban Explorer, Inc, a boutique consulting firm designing interactive GIS tools for economic development, land use planning and urban design, we heard a common theme from our customers: “Help us analyze today and help us predict tomorrow.” We found ourselves replicating the same steps of geospatial economic analysis studies, so rather than reinvent the wheel every time, we decided to invent it just once and automate the process via a single platform, and EconoVue™ was born.
The millions of businesses that comprise the U.S. economy and workforce are constantly in motion. Our agile approach to solution design is highly collaborative with the “end-user”, constantly evolving to meet the growing needs and creativity of our clients as they try to extract insight from data chaos.
Working with our data partners, public sources and our great collaborative clients, we continue to expand EconoVue™ to meet new needs, including Economic Development, Transportation and Custom Analysis. Our design philosophy is to produce innovative, actionable data insight tools, in a modular application platform that is iterative and easily adaptive to meet the ever-changing information needs of our clients.
