After Rite Aid announced in early May that it's closing hundreds of stores after filing for bankruptcy , ice cream lovers around the country have started to panic about the availability of Thrifty Ice Cream.

The drugstore chain may not be the only store to sell Thrifty Ice Cream, but other locations are not quite as plentiful.

That's bad news for enthusiastic fans of the frozen dessert, many of whom are voicing their concern on a Reddit subgroup devoted to Zillennials, or those born between the late 1990s and early 2000s.

"Wait... You mean to tell me that the greatest ice cream in existence could be gone soon?" one worried Thrifty fan wrote in the group.

According to the official Thrifty website , the ice cream brand got its start in a small factory in West Hollywood, California,

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