Rite Aid Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Rite Aid full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Good for the first timer
- Easy as pie work
- Nice co-wokers if you are lucky
- If you are lucky enough to get a good manager your experience can be very nice

Cons – - Very low pay, you will start off at minimum wage for cashier/clerk and get one 18 cent raise a year at the date of hire.
- Awful benefits
- If the manager is bad the store will fall apart. The manager has the freedom to do whatever the heck he or she wants with no accountably. They will sit in the office and give the work to others to do while they do nothing/ Take 3 hour lunch breaks on the clock. You can complain but nothing will come of it.
- Wasteful nothing is EVER recycled
- At the event of any kind of weather emergency you will NOT be aloud to go home.
I have had to stay four and five hours+ in a power outage in the middle of hurricanes/blizzards.
The store manager has no power over this! You have to call the District manager and he/she has to give the okay to leave. They do not want you to go home because they care more about losing money then your safety!

Advice to Senior Management – Please keep a better eye on your store managers!
Let your employees go home when the weather is serious or you will have a lawsuit on your hands soon!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Rite Aid full-time for more than a year

Pros – Laid Back Atmosphere
Good Employees
Hours for Family

Cons – No Management
District Managment Turnonver

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Rite Aid part-time for more than a year

Pros – Are you breathing? Do you have mild brain activity? Do you have no opinion? Do you not know how to think for yourself? Are you content doing a menial, mindless job? If this sound good to you, definitely apply to Rite Aid. You'll love it.

Cons – Absolutely have to take a beating from customers because management does not care. I work in a dirty part of the city and a guy threatened to shoot me because I failed to offer a plastic bag for his drink. DO NOT WORK FOR A UNION STORE. They have NO IDEA what they're doing. I can't even list all the reasons I hate this job.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay your employees more instead of stuffing the money down the toilet. Support your employees. Quit being arrogant.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Rite Aid full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – customers, associates were the bright spots of my day

Cons – unenlightened management made many days intolerable

Advice to Senior Management – survey customers and associates in a format which will elicit actual attitudes and concerns. current surveys are far to narrow in scope and allow for very little actual input

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Rite Aid full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good group of employees under me at each of the 5 stores I was assigned to, with a few exceptions.

Cons – They will fire you quickly.

Advice to Senior Management – There is talk of Rite Aid being good to the employees, but it is just talk. In reality you demand more and more for the same or less pay and give less time to do it. Districts think it is possible just because someone thought it is a good idea and a good way to save money. Result is unsatisfied employees who are always behind and being pushed to do more. When it's time for the blame game, its always the managers, so they try to push that onto others and the blame game begins. Whole stores get fired at times as a result. Very unpleasant place to work. Very cheap towards employees and benefits.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rite Aid full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The stores have a large amount of freedom, at least in the district I currently work, the pay is fairly decent for managers, and it requires very little experience

Cons – The pay for non-manager store workers, including assistants and shits is abysmal, I would not work in right aid in a non-management position,

Advice to Senior Management – Provide more opportunities to move up for management, and store workers, as well as a possible pipeline to move to cooperate for highly experienced workers with degrees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Rite Aid full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – great benefits and personal time

Cons – getting coverage or firing people almost impossible

Advice to Senior Management – Hire management in all capacities yourselves. store

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Rite Aid full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great sales. Great place to shop. Pharmacy is great

Cons – Not enough help to get the work load done. Poor upper management.

Advice to Senior Management – Need to have a better plan than just cutting payroll and not helping stores out. Waiting until there is a problem is not smart business. Managers need the time to manage and assist customers, not clean shelves. Your losing more $ by not having the product on the shelf to sell!!!!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Rite Aid full-time for more than a year

Pros – Fun co workers and loved the interaction with customers.

Cons – Poor management, lack of correct stock on hand and poor customer service for couponers.

Advice to Senior Management – Send supervisors and managers to regular actual trainings not just online classes. Some managers and some supervisors were unnecessarily rude to co workers and customers even after these issues were brought to their attention.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Rite Aid full-time for less than a year

Pros – Day goes by fast, always too much to do.

Cons – Not really sure what they mean by being a manager, don't really manage anything but the warehouse. All I do all day is move freight from front to back. Hold cashiers accountable, do we really need to run up front every minute to override a return or void? Read the report and identify patterns, way to time consuming for managers who are too busy breaking down pallets of freight by themselves.

Advice to Senior Management – Managers need more training time. Playing catch up since day 1.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend