Rite Aid Reviews in Buffalo, NY Area

Pros

It is all who you work for. My manager is constantly teaching us how to advance, how to do better for the company and ourselves. You make lots of friends with the customers and coworkers. You learn how to shop, the games that you can play in retail. It is fast paced, work goes by quickly.

Cons

Working holidays are a must. The pay is basically just above minimum wage. The company does not appreciate the cashiers only the store management. Your raises are $.25 a year. It is all who you work for. Bad management = you will hate your job. More and more responsibilities are placed on your shoulders with little to no pay increase. Cashier responsibilities get boring and repetitive, Shift supervisors get more interesting projects but also more stress and tons of multitasking.

Advice to Senior Management

I love helping people, I love designing sets, but the stress and the limited pay is not worth it. Increase pay, and I would have stayed a long time. I think the company is turning around but way too slowly.

Pros

Good pay for interns ($14 as P2, $2 raise each year)
Good number of stores to work for, flexible hours if manager is fair

Cons

Bad reputation for treating employees poorly, which may hold true for techs and cashiers
Bad management of resources - laid off 12 interns out of 16 due to budget constraints

Advice to Senior Management

Letting go so many of us in such a poor manner just adds on to the bad reputation Rite Aid has and will be the last choice for many pharmacists.

Pros

Pros- Flexibility of work schedule

Cons

Stores understaffed in the front end.

Advice to Senior Management

Front end management not treated as well as Pharmacy management, top management has forgotten that first and foremost we are a Pharmacy. They close the pharmacy and leave the
front end open and all we get is complaints that the Pharmacy is closed.

Pros

Flexible scheduling and vacation time.

Cons

50 hour work week and pay is well below Walgreens

Advice to Senior Management

Before RiteAid bought out Eckerd we worked a 45 hour work week, this takes time away from
family time which is he the most important part of life.